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Interview with Virgil Goode: How Do We Elevate Constitutional Principles?
Forbes ^ | 28 Aug 12 | Bill Flax

Posted on 08/29/2012 6:46:58 AM PDT by xzins

...Virgil Goode has long supported a bill to audit the Federal Reserve, which recently cleared the House. He advocates “currency that is real and backed by gold or silver.”

Goode champions “fair and equitable opportunity, but it’s up to you to use it. Government cannot ensure equal results because every individual differs;”

An ardent proponent of balancing the budget, our deficits Goode insists, stem from “spending.” “Taxes should be simple and fair … I’m not for increasing income taxes; if we even have an income tax.”

The candidate laments “too much federal involvement in our lives” offering as an example the Department of Education, “should not be involved, schooling should be determined by states and localities …

“Government forcibly redefining marriage to include anything other than one man and one woman would be totally foreign to the views of the framers of the Constitution, first ten amendments and Declaration of Independence.”

Goode denies that the Founders, men of “deep-seated values,” would consider a cross on the town square or the Ten Commandments posted at school “as un-constitutional... public displays “aren’t forcing religion on anyone,

He adamantly opposed our Libyan debacle

Goode implores “following the Constitution, we can’t let the UN decide” clarifying “I don’t mind working with allies like we did in World War One and Two, but I’d never let U.S. troops serve under UN command. ...

“I’m totally opposed to illegal immigration and will put a moratorium on new Green Cards until unemployment reduces. Jobs should [go] to U.S. citizens first.” Goode would “eliminate automatic birthright citizenship”

Going the third party route is admittedly precarious ... unless living in a key battleground state, it’s unlikely your vote matters much. Likewise, for the many voters (that) might stay home, pulling the lever for Goode seems sound.

(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...


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To: tacticalogic

Members of the Constitution Party affirm 7 basic principles: see the 5th principle below for “Constitution”

Life: For all human beings, from conception to natural death;

Liberty: Freedom of conscience and actions for the self-governed individual;

Family: One husband and one wife with their children as divinely instituted;

Property: Each individual’s right to own and steward personal property without government burden;

Constitution: and Bill of Rights interpreted according to the actual intent of the Founding Fathers;

States’ Rights: Everything not specifically delegated by the Constitution to the federal government, nor prohibited by the Constitution to the states, is reserved to the states or to the people;

American Sovereignty: American government committed to the protection of the borders, trade, and common defense of Americans, and not entangled in foreign alliances.


101 posted on 08/29/2012 7:48:12 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: SoConPubbie; mkjessup; VinL; ex-snook; sport; INVAR; ejonesie22; PieterCasparzen; Colonel_Flagg
Excellent post, SoCon.

1 Thessalonians 5:22 - Abstain from all appearance of evil.

The Apostle Paul is very clear in Romans 3, you do not choose evil because you think it will result in good.

Romans 3:8 "8 Why not say--as we are being slanderously reported as saying and as some claim that we say--"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is deserved. "

102 posted on 08/29/2012 7:55:06 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Hi, GSC. I’m not voting for Romney. I refuse to “vote for/support/sign my name to” a candidate who approves of killing babies and of homosexualism.


103 posted on 08/29/2012 7:58:35 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins

What’s his take on original intent with regard to abortion and capital punishment?


104 posted on 08/29/2012 8:00:40 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

That the Declaration offers the best interpretation of “life” in regards to the 5th amendment is what I would guess based on this and other articles I’ve read.

To be clear, I have never met or talked to the man.


105 posted on 08/29/2012 8:07:08 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
Cool.You'll no doubt love 4 more years of Osama Obama.It'll give you extra time to stock up on those food packets with a 20 year shelf life.And,needless to say,ammo.Lots,and lots,and lots of ammo!
106 posted on 08/29/2012 8:12:04 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Voter ID Equals "No Representation Without Respiration")
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To: Gay State Conservative

Romney supports gun control, GSC. I’ll have to stock up on ammo in any case. And he appoints liberal judges.

In fact, I think I’m picking up both a larger caliber rifle and pistol and ammo.


107 posted on 08/29/2012 8:15:52 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
I've seen arguments with regard to original intent being divined from the Declaration. Those arguments stand in contrast to the absence of any federal legislation in the early years, when the Founders and the people who were involved in the drafting and ratification of the Constitution were in power.

I struggle with the proposition that we're going to enact legislation according to the original intent of the Founders that they themselves did not enact when they were in power.

108 posted on 08/29/2012 8:25:07 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: tacticalogic

I have no doubt the Founders would be aghast at a future court finding a right to kill a baby in their meticulously argued Constitution.


109 posted on 08/29/2012 8:31:18 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins
I have no doubt the Founders would be aghast at a future court finding a right to kill a baby in their meticulously argued Constitution.

Agreed, but I don't believe that makes the Declaration an enumeration of powers.

110 posted on 08/29/2012 8:36:07 PM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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To: Dead Corpse

“Blah-blah-blah.”

Like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west, some things never change. Thanks for the synopsis.


111 posted on 08/29/2012 8:38:23 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (WILLARD 2012 - It's not just a campaign, it's a conservative suicide pact!)
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To: SoConPubbie; All

Well said.

You know, I really have to laugh at the ignorant saps who actually believe that Romney is going to “save” us from Obama.

It’s all part of the shell game. The right hand of the governing party gets to drive the car for a term or two now. But the car’s still going in the same direction.


112 posted on 08/29/2012 9:16:01 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yawn.

If we elect Romney, we’re pretty much getting four more years of Obama anywise.


113 posted on 08/29/2012 9:18:35 PM PDT by Yashcheritsiy (Science puts you on the moon, atheism puts you in the gulag)
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To: SoConPubbie; xzins
I answered much the same logic just a few months ago.

To: SoConPubbie; Pilsner

If your best option is terrible, but the other is calamitous, you take the terrible option, and prevent calamity. You don't disdainfully point out how terrible the terrible option is, and allow calamity to occur by default. - Pilsner

I very much disagree with that thinking.

The enemy within...

Who shall I choose to represent me?

What good are principles?

My principles.

1,347 posted on Friday, April 13, 2012 3:28:28 PM by TigersEye (Life is about choices. Your choices. Make good ones.)

114 posted on 08/29/2012 9:38:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (dishonorabledisclosure.com - OPSEC (give them support))
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To: EventuallyYouWillLearn

Three days now, and you’re still here.

My prediction: you won’t be here for your one year anniversary.

Watch your step n00b.


115 posted on 08/30/2012 12:27:06 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: Dead Corpse
Oh... Well... In that case. I bow to your far superior douch-baggery...

Look at you. You puff up your chest and start bloviating about 'taking up arms' as if you're John effin' Wayne, and you assume that nobody else has prepared and/or is packing the gear to prepare themselves. Further upthread, we had the following exchange:

mkj- Do you purport the notion that YOU, FReeper 'Dead Corpse' are infinitely wiser and more knowledgeable than those patriots? [referring to Palin, Gingrich, Santorum, Cain, etc. supporting Romney & Ryan against 0bama]
dc - I know exactly where I am on that scale. The answer would probably make you re-think a few of your presumptions.

All hat, no cattle. You're wasting our time.
116 posted on 08/30/2012 12:39:12 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: SoConPubbie; xzins
Is your Christianity as situational as your ethics?

I'll tell you what, you circle around behind me, bend down real low, and kiss my ass. I don't answer to you in such matters, I answer to Almighty God and if you and xzins are going to start church services and start bashing everyone over the head with the Bible, head on over to the Religion Forum and do it there.

America's house is on fire. 0bama started the blaze. Romney & Ryan are the only shot we have at putting out that fire. If all you and your ilk are going to do is piss gasoline on the flames, then it's time for you two morally superior beings to GTFO.
117 posted on 08/30/2012 12:44:58 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: mkjessup
I'll tell you what, you circle around behind me, bend down real low, and kiss my ass. I don't answer to you in such matters, I answer to Almighty God and if you and xzins are going to start church services and start bashing everyone over the head with the Bible, head on over to the Religion Forum and do it there.

Judgement Day, my FRiend is not going to be real friendly to you if you keep supporting people so blatantly anti-Christian.
118 posted on 08/30/2012 1:27:40 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency.)
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To: SoConPubbie

That is WAY above your pay grade and you don’t get a vote on that Day. You worry about your own soul you effin Pharisee, and I’ll worry about mine.


119 posted on 08/30/2012 1:34:00 AM PDT by mkjessup (Finley Peter Dunne - "Politics ain't beanbag")
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To: xzins
Goode would “eliminate automatic birthright citizenship”

I really hope he means that anchor babies won't be albatrosses around Uncle Sam's neck, and not that every single person in the US, legal or illegal, has to go through the citizenship process.

120 posted on 08/30/2012 2:24:48 AM PDT by The Grammarian
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