With world caliber U.S. corporate leadership competing in a new global marketplace of ideas it makes sense to bring individuals like this into a government that is basically broken and on the verge of socialism. It smacks of big business running the country and the democrats will jump all over this but demonstrated success is hard to beat, especially with a cynical constituency and when a rising tide will benefit everyone. Small consulting companies like mine are servants to the large corporate leaders and frankly my personal experience is they do a great job at finding new creative ways to compete and be fiscally responsible. Now you need to support this team with offices of marketing, communication and innovation to outwit and out-communicate the liberal media who controls the traditional media channels.

The fact that many Republicans support filling these positions with the goal to show “competency, gain politically, satisfy diversity and most of all get the voters to actually notice” indicates how far the majority of the party has strayed from principle. We should laud filling these positions with statesmen of a similar caliber to Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson for here was an individual who wanted to eliminate all the functions of the department of Agriculture since it violated principle. For John McCain to “garner favor” with a FreeCapitalist “constituency”, he should announce the elimination of all un-Constitutional and unprincipled cabinet positions.

Changing the name of the “Department of Defense” to the “Department of War” may seem like an innocent plan on words. However, this principled reason for this department is to DEFEND the rights of Americans – not to engage in WAR around the world for American interests. The warfare state is just as much a violation of principle as is the welfare state.

Thank you Jeremy, I am pleased to see there is at least one person on this list who comprehends real principle. There is NO top Republican or Democrat who can be placed in a Cabinet to restore freedom to this land. To say that we are on the brink of Socialism is to deny what our nation is really like. We are on the brink of destroying the facade of private ownership.

But ownership is supposed to hold within it control. If you do not really control your own business, then you do not own it. If you must pay taxes to keep it, then you do not own it. If you must be licensed to run your business then you do not own it.

The Free Market was destroyed and has not existed since 1913 and the creation of the Federal Reserve. The Federal Reserve is a privately owned corporation which creates “money” out of thin air and has never been audited. It controls the money of this nation totally, including by supporting the campaigns of the chosen puppets who are placed in office very carefully, the higher the office the more strings attached to the puppets. They own every newspaper, radio, and TV station with only a few rare and small exceptions. They own nearly every business, major by shares and minor by mortgage. They own nearly every home, and the few that are exceptions still have resources under them. They have stolen the gold from our precious Fr. Knox. They have undermined every form we once had which were bastions of truth and liberty such as the Boy Scouts, even getting their politically correct mess into Scouting. They own the schools and the educating of our teachers. They push the false and anti-Christ doctrine called Evolution upon every young free mind in their government indoctrination centers. I just don’t get how anyone cannot see that we have not had a free market or been a free nation for the past at least 50 years.

We have exactly ONE man in office in Washington DC who does not deserve to be impeached. ONE. All others have denied their Oath of Office and defied the Constitution. They do not limit their yes votes to those bills which are Constitutionally legal. Only one man does, Ron Paul.

McCain is NO better than Obama. Period. He might not be any worse, but he’s no better. There is one place that a McCain presidency will take us and that is directly into the North American Union which is already being implemented behind our backs and against our wills. Our States crying, “No!!!” has not stopped the building of the transamerican highway.

The gentiles who know who they are, by virtue of reading the special book that we have been given to give us a strong foundation in Christ and to let us be fore warned of the political horrors of our own day, have been commanded to awaken to a sense of their Awful Situation.

Well I merely bring this to mind. WAKE UP! If we do not save freedom this year, it will not be saved without bloodshed and lots of it. ObaCain is not going to save any fraction of Liberty. ObaCain is not interested in your free agency. ARE YOU?

There is now only one man running who is. And today the ONE man in Congress who has remained faithful to his Oath has endorsed him, Chuck Baldwin. Now there is a man who will choose a cabinet briefly who will purposefully do away with their own seats. He will choose carefully a team of aides to help him dismantle every crooked and illegal office and bureaucracy which has been established.

And there is only ONE way that he can loose. And that is if all of you who know the truth decide to vote for evil instead and to not get out and insist that every neighbor of yours knows about Chuck, is registered to vote, and gets to the polls to vote for Chuck Baldwin. We finally have a man worth voting for at a time when People are really totally fed up with the one party non-choice we have been fed by the international banking elite.

Sue Venable

Sue,

One man is not going to make that big of a change. No matter how good of a man you claim that Chuck Baldwin is, he will never be able to accomplish all you claim he can accomplish.

“Now there is a man who will choose a cabinet briefly who will purposefully do away with their own seats.”

My response: Yeah right! This sounds too much like, “Read my lips, no new taxes” It is a pie in the sky campaign promise that he is not going to be able to impliment even if we assume he is sincere in this desires to do it.

You seem to be operating under the assumption that those who frequent this site are in support of “ObaCain” as you put it. This is simply not the case. This article was a guest article to get people thinking, not an indication of any political support of any one candidate.

Those who frequent this site have woken up “to a sense of their Awful Situation” more than most Americans This includes the necessary understanding that the President of the United States is the least important election this year in terms of taking our country out of the horrible situation it is in. We don’t actually even vote for our candidate, we vote for the people who will vote for our candidate.

More important than the US Presidential election were the precinct delegate elections, the state senate and legislature elections, the county and city elections, and even the state elections. Simply put, I personally have not yet decided who I will vote for for President because I have been too busy finding out who I will vote for for the more important elections this year.

You still insist on giving a call to repentance for all those who don’t support Mr. Baldwin. Like I have told you before, this is not a rational argument, neither is it even effective. Those who already agree with you will not agree with you more by a call to repentance, those who disagree with you will not change their minds because you call them to repentance.

You seem to have forgotten another principle of the religion to which you belong:
” 41 No power or influence can or ought to be maintained by virtue of the priesthood, only by persuasion, by long-suffering, by gentleness and meekness, and by love unfeigned;
42 By kindness, and pure knowledge, which shall greatly enlarge the soul without hypocrisy, and without guile—
43 Reproving betimes with sharpness, when moved upon by the Holy Ghost; and then showing forth afterwards an increase of love toward him whom thou hast reproved, lest he esteem thee to be his enemy;
44 That he may know that thy faithfulness is stronger than the cords of death.”

I have seen plenty of the “reproving betimes with sharpness” but I have sincere doubts that it was prompted by the Holy Ghost, since it bears little of the fruits (Galations 5:22-23). I have seen very little persuasion, long suffering, gentleness, meekness, love unfeigned, kindness, or pure knowledge from your arguments to me or on this site.

You have all but told me I am going to hell, and at least not following my religion, if I don’t vote for Chuck Baldwin. This does nothing to persuade me or anybody else that Chuck Baldwin is the best choice for President. In fact, it makes it harder to find out the truth about him because I have to filter out my own annoyance at his supporters to give him the benefit of the doubt. It puts your own opinion of his character under suspicion. So I either discount everything you said when considering him as a candidate, or discount him as a candidate all together.

This holier than thou, high minded, dogmatic call to repentance is the reason good candidates like Chuck Baldwin (assuming he has as high a character and lofty intentions as you say he has) have so little chance at winning an election. His followers are zealots rather than true brain-on supporters.

As the axiom goes:
When two people agree on everything, one of them is not doing any thinking.

Or…

When two people agree on everything, one of them is not necessary.

“Changing the name of the ‘Department of Defense’ to the ‘Department of War’ may seem like an innocent plan on words…”

Jeremy, with all due respect, I think the point of this “change” was to bring the name of this position back to the original as George Washington set it in the good ol’ days.

Jason, I did not realize that under George Washington there was a Department of War - thanks for pointing this out to me.

If the point of the name change recommendation is to cause a change in foreign policy so it lines up with the views espoused by George Washington (i.e. noninterventionalism) then this could be a good strategy for getting America back to following principle.

However, wouldn’t someone who wanted to get America back to the good ol’ days of Washington also recommend eliminating the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Drug Control, Education, EPA, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Office of Management & Budget, Trade Representative, Transportation, Veterans Affairs?

Ammon, I agree that one man will not make a difference in Washington all by himself. That’s why I so highly regard Ron Paul for he sees himself as an educator rather than a politician. I believe the strategic purpose for voting 3rd party or writing in a name is two fold:
#1) You have a clean conscience because you did not support the supposed lesser of two evils.
#2) You make a statement to the two power parties that to get your vote next time, they need to put up someone who truly follows principle.
However, what truly matters is how we live our lives and influence others rather than how we vote ever two or four years.

Though my hope is that all who call themselves FreeCapitalists will renounce their support of McCain in both word and deed for his horrendous support of the bailout bill. Even if you don’t see a violation in principle with the warfare state he promotes, all his talk against “pork barrel spending” is just a drop in the bucket compared to what will be the eventual price tag of this bailout.

Not quite sure how anybody can sincerely support John McCain because he MAY put effort towards saving a few million after DEFINITELY putting effort towards costing us at least $700,000,000,000. If Rick laughs about getting a $500 discount off of a car costing $200,000, what do we do here…

Jeremy said:

“However, wouldn’t someone who wanted to get America back to the good ol’ days of Washington also recommend eliminating the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Drug Control, Education, EPA, Energy, Health & Human Services, Homeland Security, Housing & Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, Office of Management & Budget, Trade Representative, Transportation, Veterans Affairs?”
Point well taken. Government is far too big. Far too big.

Jeremy,

Casting a vote for someone, does not necessarily indicate that you support everything for which they stand or everything which they have done.

There is nothing immoral about voting for John McCain, even if I disagree with him on a good portion of the issues. If an individual believes that no third party candidate will have a chance at being elected, then I could see justifying a vote for McCain, not because they support him or what he stands for, but because they see the alternative as worse. I’m not saying that this is my own stance. I personally put very little importance on who becomes our next President, so I don’t think it matters a whole lot strategically I vote for. The citizens of Utah have demonstrated that the republican candidate will win in this state. If I don’t believe McCain is the best candidate, it makes little real difference, so I am concentrating on the more critical races of state house and senate, county offices, state offices, and US House and Senate where a vote for someone other than a republican actually makes a difference historically.

I vote for individuals. I do my best to ignore their party affiliation when I vote. Third party affiliation to me is really irrelevant. I am trying to meet with or at least speak with every candidate for each of those races beginning at the most local level and working my way up, to the less important races.