Know Your RINO

Huckabee 63%
Paul 13%
Keyes 7%
Brownback 5%
Hunter 4%
Thompson 4%
Tancredo 2%
Giuliani 1%
McCain 1%
Cox 1%
Romney 0%

This one may have been somewhat predictable. The audience tended to be strong Christian Conservatives who, in general, subscribe to the pro-marriage amendment, pro-life, and pro-unconstitutional war mentality.

With this being the criteria, Giuliani's 'values' fare terribly, McCain's don't do well, and Romney's are suspect. Add to this Romney's 'Mormonism', and nobody voted for him!

(Editors of www.knowyourrino.com disagree with holding someone's brand of Christianity against them. Article VI, Clause III of the Constitution states "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States." However, their lack of faith or weak adhearance to the religious beliefs they claim to profess certainly should be considered!)

Although Ron Paul is pro-life and pro-traditional family, he points out the Constitution doesn't give the Federal Government any authority to regulate in these areas. He also doesn't support abandoning the Constitutional requirements for going to war, in order to fight radical Islam.

This view doesn't fare well among the 'Values Voters' crowd, unless they also understand and support the Constitutional limits to Federal power.

Apparently, around 13% of the 'Values Voters' group believe that following the Constitution is more important than other political agendas.

The following post from blogger Freedom_Maverick sums up the incredible support Ron Paul received and how the media ignores it:

Tuesday, September 18, 2007
The Media on the Values Voters Debate
Here’s what the news didn’t think was important to tell you.

Who was the ONLY candidate to have supporters outside the Values Voters debate? RON PAUL Which candidate had a tug boat, all painted red, white, and blue, going up and down the New River tooting its horn? RON PAUL Which candidate had yard signs and banners posted all over downtown? RON PAUL Who was the ONLY candidate to have a public reception for their supporters after the debate? RON PAUL

You didn’t see that on your TV or in your newspaper did you? Do you ever ask yourself why? Maybe you should. There were at least 100 Ron Paul supporters standing in front of the Performing Arts Center waving signs, holding huge banners, and chanting it up for Ron Paul big time! There wasn’t a sign or supporter for any other candidate for miles. A Hillary Clinton follower, who said he just got out of prison, harassed the Ron Paul supporters to the point that he got himself arrested by the police. What is it about Hillary that attracts these whackos? Peaceful Ron Paul rally’ers are really getting sick and tired of these stunts.

If there were this level of support for one of those bottom 4 candidates, who have a lot of money, you can bet it would’ve been reported. Now what TV channel recorded and observed all the above but didn’t think it was important enough to tell you. The local NBC Channel 6 that’s who!

Other Republican candidates might have more money but ONLY Ron Paul has real human beings backing him up and that’s what the media and the money candidates want to make sure you don’t see.

Mike Huckabee is a sincere eloquent spokesman for the mainstream Christian conservative. There are two primary issues however that must be dealt with;
First , as conservatives what values are we trying to conserve? The status quo values of big government of the current Republican Party? Or, the Constitutional and moral values of our founding fathers of extremely limited government intervention and personal, church, and local community responsibility?
Second, is the ability to motivate the conservative base AND the independent/swing voters. Only Dr. Ron Paul successfully answers both. No one in politics today has a better Constitutional record or expertise. He has the best record on limiting taxes, eliminating gun control, and promoting free enterprise. And for the ultimate value issue of abortion, what could be better then a Pro-life medical doctor that has delivered over 4,000 babies? Once value voters understand that we need to get the government out of the way for morality to flourish – Ron Paul will be their clear choice. At the same time Ron Paul clearly appeals to independent crowd with his message of limited government, peace, and liberty.
Freedom and liberty bring people together, and no one has a clearer message than Ron Paul.

— Posted by Tim

Ron Paul’s solid second place finish in the voting has to be scored a major win. Hundreds of cheering Ron Paul supporters were overjoyed at Dr. Paul’s effort as they gathered after the debate with the only peace candidate in this election. Dr. Paul’s second place finish shows that he is an acceptable alternative to the Values Voters who picked Huckabee as what amounted to their first pick for pastor. That’s a big win for Dr. Paul, since this election is not for pastor, but for President. And while a pro-war person might be able to get elected as pastor of a church, a pro-war person will not be able to get elected as a Republican President of the United States when 70% of the American people already are fed up with Bush’s Neocon war. That percentage will only climb as the needless deaths in Iraq climb. Anywhere from a quarter of a million to a million Iraqis have been killed by this war…a war that has WORSENED everything. And four thousand Americans are dead. By the way, one of the things made horribly worse by this war is that a large and secure Christian population in Iraq that went back to a time way before European Christianity has been utterly destroyed as a direct consequence of the war. Huckabee can’t run against the pro-war Hillary as a peace candidate. Only Dr. Paul can. That’s why only Ron Paul can beat Hillary (or Obama or any of the other pro-war Democrats) in 2008.

— Posted by Jamie Kelso