Politics Update

Wow, what a month. I have seen the disappointment of losing an excellent candidate. I am contemplating running for office myself (not POTUS!). I have decided to leave the Republican Party. What else? I've decided to endorse yet another long shot candidate. So let's get started:

BIG REASON TO LEAVE
Regarding running for an office, right now, all I will mention is that I am at a loss for a party. I have decided to leave the Republican Party after learning of the link between George Soros (MoveOn.org financier, as well as a number of other less visible but more harmful causes) and McCain. I have waited for the denouncement of McCain by the GOP as it is a most shameful thing to be allied and financed by a person intent on destroying America as we know it. So I have decided that I can not abide a party that tolerates corrupted (or Trojan) individuals at this kind of level.

TRYING TO FIND A HOME
I have looked at a lot of parties, and many of them basically seem to have given up the ghost and jumped on the Ron Paul bandwagon (RPB). That pretty much brings me to question their views on foreign policy. This is true, even of the two parties that I like the best of the minor parties: Constitution Party and the America First Party. Ultimately, I see the RPB views as idealistic and not thought out. I can understand (and appreciate) ideological purity, but they are the right-wing or liberterian equivalent of the elite liberals (a.k.a the ivory tower) that has no basis in reality. Well, here is my quick and dirty summary of two failings of the RPB in matters of foreign policy:

1) I think support for Israel is critical. (I've read Chuck Baldwin's defense of Ron Paul on this issue and found it wanting -- I may write a blog post sometime about why). The RPB effectively say**: we must stop supporting Israel, and once we leave Iraq there will be no reason to attack us and then we will be safe. In Numbers, God repeats His promise of blessing those who bless the people of Israel, and cursing those who curse Israel. Given that we have over 40 million abortion in this land, I see this is as primary reason good has not judged us as we deserved. To abandon Israel would be destructive for our nation.

2) While I am sympathetic to the fact that we didn't properly declare war, the view of "just get out" is very naive. We need to win, or the latter state will be worse than the first. If we leave quickly, we encourage a number of things: a) Instability in the region. Syria, Iran, Russia, China, Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden will try to get control of the region. The instability itself will make more enemies (and put us under yet another blood guilt, just as the first Bush did with the first Iraq War) because we abandoned people to chaos and power struggles. b) Terrorists would be confirmed in their view that the US is a big sissy and will give up if resisted enough. c) Terrorists hate us because of our support for Israel, and have thus chosen (from a spiritual view) the wrong side. d) Radical Muslims will hate the US for additional reasons, consider that the state of Iran years back announced its concern of the young people being taught witchcraft by Harry Potter films. They will see us a corrupting influence and hate us for that or any other number of reasons they seek to concoct. If you are going to start the appeasement route, you better get busy because there will be a lot of appeasing to do.

**RPB folks will adjust their message based on their audience. For pro-Islam groups, they will talk about how the US will not be supporting Israel under a RP administration. For pro-Israel groups, they say: Israel will be stronger, and their neighboring countries won't get so much money.