Interview with Virgil Goode: How Do We Elevate Constitutional Principles?

Forbes ^ | 28 Aug 12 | Bill Flax

[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.

[SoConPubbie]

Then you might kindly counsel your fellow evangelist SoConPubbie who seems bent on passing religious judgment on FReepers who live in the real world, faced with real world situations which are not perfect and which have no absolutely pure and simple answers as you prefer.

Please do me a favor and ping me if you are referring to me.

Furthermore, our Lord and Savior commanded us to "Be ye perfect as I am perfect".

Some choices are hard in this life.

Some choices leave you standing all by yourself.

But the choice of who you vote for is not hard at all for a Christian.

SImply ask yourself, would Christ be happy by me voting for someone who is actively support the murder of unborn babies?

Would Christ be happy by me voting for someone who is actively supporting a sin, Homosexuality, that he calls an Abomination?

Those two questions alone, take away all the grey area when making that choice.

Furthermore, since you, nor anyone else, can find an example where God, his Prophets, Christ, or his Apostles commanded us to do Evil to do Good, the answer is perfectly clear, from a Conservative CHRISTIAN perspective that is.

[xzins]

Furthermore, since you, nor anyone else, can find an example where God, his Prophets, Christ, or his Apostles commanded us to do Evil to do Good, the answer is perfectly clear, from a Conservative CHRISTIAN perspective that is.

Excellent, SoCon!

It is clear: We can't do evil thinking it's going to bring about some kind of good. We NEVER counsel to do evil, to sin.

[mkjessup]

I can't wait until school starts again and you kids get off the Internet for a while...

Ahh you don't mean that, the word out there is that you like kids, now don't ya?

[mkjessup]

Then you might kindly counsel your fellow evangelist SoConPubbie who seems bent on passing religious judgment on FReepers who live in the real world, faced with real world situations which are not perfect and which have no absolutely pure and simple answers as you prefer.
Please do me a favor and ping me if you are referring to me.

Screw off you, you've been sticking to this thread like Elmer's glue, don't play that 'oh poor lil ol' me, that wicked sinner mkjessup didn't ping me and is talking about me!' card.

Furthermore, our Lord and Savior commanded us to "Be ye perfect as I am perfect".

I got a newsflash for you: you're not perfect and neither is any other flawed sinner on this Earth.

You and your fellow holier-than-thous can wail and gnash your teeth until the cows come home about the choices that are placed before us on November 6th. One of the two candidates will be sworn in as President in January 2013. One is that filthy Communist pig 0bama, the other one is Mitt Romney who, no matter your shrieks to the contrary, does NOT represent the sort of wickedness manifested in 0bama. Romney IS an imperfect choice, however he is the only choice that has a shot at defeating 0bama. You want 4 more years of 0bama? Then either don't vote, or vote for a fringe candidate like Virgil Goode who has no chance of winning.

If you self-righteous clowns were in a lifeboat on the ocean with the rest of us, some of us rowing, some of us bailing, you would be hacking holes in the hull with axes because the rowers and bailers didn't share your beliefs.

Everyone knows where you stand, how long are you going to beat that dead horse?

[Dead Corpse]

There you go with that projection again...

You might want to get a head start on running though. Lunch is coming up and some kid is going to kick your ass and stuff you in a locker pretty soon...

[mkjessup]

There you go with that projection again...
You might want to get a head start on running though. Lunch is coming up and some kid is going to kick your ass and stuff you in a locker pretty soon...

You're a real laugh riot. I mention 'projection' in an earlier post and you subsequently decide that's a good comment for you to make, you have the originality (and the intellect) of a mud puddle. And look how the mighty have fallen, from beating your chest about 'taking up arms' to swapping ad hominem for ad hominem. For someone who has been here since 1999, you're no longer a 'Dead Corpse', you have finished decaying and are more than ready for re-classification as 'worm food'.

But c'mon back with more uncreative insults, I've heard them all, and the day is young, maybe you'll surprise me with something that actually has some sting to it.

[stephenjohnbanker]

” Is your Christianity as situational as your ethics? “

Here is your problem. We are voting for a politician, not Jesus Christ.(in Romneys case voting against Obama, not for Romney)

Obama hates Christians, America, and free markets. His goal is to bankrupt America, and destroy the moral fabric in the process. Romney may not be able to stop the bleeding, and we could go under anyway. Romney is a gamble at best, and a rogue. Obama could intellectually, and spiritually be compared to Satan. To infer that those who choose not to allow a satanic POTUS to remain in power, are somehow less of a Christian than you is intellectually contemptible, and morally bankrupt.

I believe that God has allowed us to be prosperous and free because we are a Christian nation. Show me a biblical passage that says Christians should cower, and allow a Satanic leader to rule them. If we allow a satanic man like Obama to destroy the most Christian nation on earth, by somehow claiming a moral high ground, I pass.

[mkjessup]

Those are wise words SJB, and I'd like to think that it might sink into the skulls of these latter day Pharisees who have made a cottage industry out of passing judgment on those who don't buy into their spiritual and ideological purity tests so far as this election is concerned. They are the real life equivalents of the caricature of the wild eyed bearded man waving a sign around "THE END IS NEAR, REPENT" and for the record, the End just damn well MIGHT be near, but until it arrives, there are battles to be fought, and getting rid of 0bamugabe is the main event.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Romney is a complete jerk, but we might be able to push him to the right,through intimidation and coersion and survive to vote again in 4 years. If not, at least we didn’t line up at the slaughterhouse, following the judas goat.

[Dead Corpse]

Ah well... At least the kid that gave you a wedgie, stole your lunch money, and locked you in your locker allowed you to keep your iPad.

Bad news is, you aren't learning from your victim-hood that being a limp-wristed Leftist isn't going to get you very far in life.

[mkjessup]

It took you that much time to come up with the same lame, predictable drivel?

[yawn]

You must be plagiarizing from ‘The Exciting One Liners of Walter Mondale’, your fellow Minnesota turd.

Not impressed.

[Dead Corpse]

So you finally got around to check out my profile page. I noticed yours doesn't fly a State flag... Must be from New York... I'd be embarrassed to fly that flag too...

Run along now little liberal. The adults are talking here.

[mkjessup]

Unlike you, I do not provide gratuitous information about myself for anyone (including the feds) to harvest.

Of course you don’t have to worry about that because they’ve probably already concluded that you’re definitely no threat as a resident in the State that voted AGAINST Reagan TWICE.

You want embarrassment? Check the mirror, chump.

[billflax]

Good question, but it’s fun having the best record in baseball right now.

Are you somewhere close to Cincinnati?

[xzins]

Approximately 2 hours away from the ballpark, but still able to pick up good ole WLW.

[PieterCasparzen]

Remember good king Hezekiah, Kings 20, 21 & 22.

Good king and good man that he was, the model for a government leader or ruler, we see once again that we are to put our faith in God, not in ourselves, our abilities, technology, etc. The Bible imparts that such faith is to be accompanied by obedience to God’s law word, the whole of it, not adding to or taking away from it; always seeking to understand it and obey it. By the Grace of God, those whom he elects will persevere in faith and obedience.

Early on, Hezekiah had taken down the gold from the doors of the temple, etc., to pay tribute to the king of Assyria. To me, this is very symbolic, as the construction of the temple was according to God’s revealed word. We certainly can not count on using our wealth to buy off our enemies when all else fails. There certainly is no demonstration of faith in God when we try to make earthly “deals” with those who would attack us.

Towards the end, Hezekiah accepted letters and a present from the king of Bablyon, and showed his representatives all his valuables and armor stores.

Isaiah then prophesied that all these would be taken away from Hezekiah’s heirs, and indeed it all was eventually carried off to Babylon.

Biblically, a godly nation would be authorized to come to the aid of another godly nation. But a godly nation should never place it’s hopes for it’s own protection on making friends with wicked and unbelieving nations, since, of course, that is tantamount to saying that such an ungodly alliance offers more safety than God, when God alone is our salvation.

God demands our faith in him and him alone; even the best leaders, even Moses, was chastised by not exactly following God’s word (Numbers 20:7-12).

[DannyTN]

Goode has my vote. I don’t expect him to win, but I’m hoping he gets enough votes that the GOP thinks twice about ignoring Conservatives. Or that people have a party to go to if the GOP continues being just like the democrats.

[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.

mkjessup,

Pharisees were people who said one thing and did the other.

Your analogy is flawed.

This would be a good description of Mitt Romney and conservatives who are beating other conservatives over the head for not voting for a liberal like Mitt Romney.

[SoConPubbie]

Here is your problem. We are voting for a politician, not Jesus Christ.(in Romneys case voting against Obama, not for Romney)

First of all, sorry for being so tardy replying to you. I can't post at work and had to go to my kid's school Open House after work.

Now, with regards to your previous post, No Stephen, that is not the issue for Christians.

Nowhere in the Bible did God, His Prophets, Christ, or his Apostles declare that his commands were situational. In fact, quite the opposite is true. He demands 100% of our will, not 90%, not 95%, not even 99%. We can't pick and choose the situations that we are going to apply God's laws and commands to; it does not matter if you actually believe or fear that Obama has the power to bring this nation to it's knees. What matters, if we are truly Christians, is that we obey God.

You cannot compartmentalize your Christianity or apply filters to which scenario you remain loyal to Christ and those you will not be loyal to Christ.

If Millions of Christians over the centuries have chosen to remain true to Christ, even in the face of certain death because they refused to recant their faith in God, how can you and I as Conservative Christians throw away our faith by supporting a man who knowingly supports what he knows is evil, the Abortion of Babies and the Homosexual agenda even if we fear the damage that Obama might do?

Is your faith in a political party or is it in an Almighty, ALL-KNOWING God?

Christianity was never meant to be partial or situational.

Voting for Romney, when he supports the murders of babies and the Abomination of the Gay Agenda puts you in the place of doing just that.

[EternalVigilance]

“A man with God is always in the majority.”

— John Knox