Mark Ellmore is Amit Singh’s Republican primary opponent in Virginia’s 8th district. Last week an author at North Star Writer’s group interviewed Amit Singh. This week it is Ellmore’s turn. Disclosure: Liberty Maven has endorsed Amit Singh in the race, and a few of the answers by Ellmore demonstrate why we chose to endorse Singh.
P.I.: There have been some questions about your stance on border security. Would you support building a wall along the border, a virtual fence or a combination of both?
M.E.: I have always been an ardent supporter of constructing a fence along the border. A border fence is the most practical solution and a good start at solving the illegal immigration crisis. (emphasis/sarcasm mine)
This is a strong anti-illegal immigration commercial. Not quite as strong as Tom Tancredo’s commercial but very strong. Actually too strong for my tastes. Shhhh don’t tell anyone but I’m not in agreement with Ron Paul on immigration for the most part. Immigration is not an important issue to me as it is to others. This will play well to strong opponents of illegal immigration.
Here is Ron Paul’s appearance on Meet The Press with Tim Russert. As expected, it was a bit brutal but overall Ron Paul answered the questions like he always has. Not sure this will win over anyone on the fence, but it was certainly media exposure. The video is in 4 parts.
Here is the complete set of parts to the Glenn Beck Ron Paul interview. Overall it was as I expected a fair interview, but I could have done without the drama and time spent on the 9/11 truth thing and the threat on Beck’s life from a Ron Paul supporter. I’d rather that time be consumed by talk of the gun rights issue and allowing Paul to explain his true stance on “getting rid of the FBI”.
These are all the segments of the ABC John Stossel interview of Ron Paul released online over the past week. If any new ones show up I will update this post with video from them. All of them may also be found on the John Stossel ABC News web site at http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/
Here is part 4 of the ongoing interview of Ron Paul by John Stossel. Immigration is this segment’s topic. Found this segment on YouTube so I’m embedding it here. Once all parts are complete I will post a single post with all parts.
The Club For Growth is running this Huckabee attack ad in Iowa:
And Mitt Romney’s campaign is getting in on the action with this “comparison” commercial:
It will be quite interesting to see if these ads affect Mike Huckabee’s poll numbers. I’m curious if we will see ads about his releasing of a convicted rapist or his support of quarantining AIDS/HIV+ people. Those issues may be a bit much for people and could backfire. These are interesting times.
This is an interesting article from a main stream source. What I find interesting is that in the introduction of the article, after quoting Ron Paul’s position on the North American Union and the NAFTA Superhighway, the author simply claims it is not true. Then in the meat of the article all you see are facts backing up Ron Paul’s point other than one quote of opinion by a “conservative”.
I’m not one to believe in conspiracies and I even cringe a little bit when Ron Paul answers questions about the NAU, the trans-texas corridor, and American sovereignty. However, this article fails miserably at giving me reason to cringe. In fact, it accomplishes the opposite.
Ron Paul wants you to be scared. There’s a conspiracy in the land—what he calls a “conspiracy of ideas”—to give up America’s sovereignty. It’s a shadowy scheme that begins with the NAFTAMexico, the United States and Canada. “They don’t talk about it and they might not admit it,” Paul said at the CNN-YouTube presidential debate last week. He didn’t say exactly who “they” are, but perhaps one can guess. “They’re planning on [taking] millions of acres … by eminent domain,” warned the prickly libertarian. But elected government officials aren’t acting alone. There’s “an unholy alliance of foreign consortiums and officials from several governments” pushing the idea, Paul wrote in October 2006. “The ultimate goal is not simply a superhighway, but an integrated North American Union—complete with a currency, a cross-national bureaucracy, and virtually borderless travel within the Union.”
Something must be in the water down there in Hope, Arkansas. Mike Huckabee is the modern Republican version of Bill Clinton. Don’t misunderstand me, I mean that in a bad way. Mike Huckabee is splendid in debates where he can misdirect an answer to a tough question with a witty joke rather than actually answering the question. He is a hoot. He has charisma and is a likable enough fellow, but is that enough to earn your vote?
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