Crispo Endorses Ron Paul

I'm going with Paul until someone can point me to another candidate who can say this:

He has never voted to raise taxes.

He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.

He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.

He has never voted to raise congressional pay.

He has never taken a government-paid junket.

He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.

He voted against the Patriot Act.

He voted against regulating the Internet.

He voted against the Iraq war.

He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. [Which is, by the way, a six-digit annual pension after only six years in Congress, even if unelected after that, plus entirely communized, not just socialized, medical care for themselves and family unto the grave --all paid for by the confiscated wages of people who actually work for a living.]

He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

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Trying to dissuade me, as some rethugicans have, by saying Paul -- oh my god! -- wants to end the gold standard is absurd, if only because no president gets to decide such things. I'll not be shivering in my boots about it. In any case, what's backing money now? You think you can, as it says on your folding money, redeem the paper for specie? Go ahead and try. Money has become a more abstract concept than it's ever been, which is saying quite a lot. It's basically movements of electrons, now. What's backing the dollar more than anything today is the trillions in US Treasury bonds owned by various nation states, China and Saudi Arabia in particular but far from alone. What else backs a dollar otherwise when the government itself is, at the moment, in the hole more than a trillion bucks? Answer: Not much. Fundamentally speaking, what backs it is people's ability and willingness to accept its abstraction. And don't kid yourself. That deficit is no more than a third due to the war. The other two thirds is largely pork and fat pork at that.

And certainly it won't be me who objects to Paul's position of eliminating the IRS. I can't even believe people would try to disuade me using that "threat." Eighty percent of the people who "work" for the IRS could be laid off tomorrow and not a single honest working American would even notice.

Plus, and far from least, Paul's put the fear of their god into the rethug's establishment hopefuls and their lapdogs in radioland and cyberspace, who have dutifully snapped to to every change in the party line all along, as unblinkingly as any Stalinist ever did and moreso than some. Ain't anyone with a gun to their heads, here, so it's a voluntary unblinking. Their desire -- especially this early on -- to silence Paul and lie about him just makes me support him more. Anyone that unpopular with a pack of lying hogs gorging at the public trough basically for the whole of their parasitic lives, is a friend of mine. Let them work for a living for a change, like the rest of us. Things is tight all over.

It's the people who are supposed to decide who they'll vote for, not party establishments, and very particularly not the present rethug establishment. The last thing in the world any of those creeps need or want is an actual debate about real issues that requires taking an actual stand, as opposed to mouthing carefully crafted bullshit "statements" created by hired guns who'd eat their own grandmothers for the right price.

Fuck 'em. Damn the torpedos. Full speed ahead.

Go, Paul, go!