I’ve seen some pretty passionate fans of presidential candidates out there, but this guy takes the cake.

Barack Obama is the type of guy that would give you the shirt right off your neighbor’s back. No doubt about it.

On Tuesday I posted an audio track of a conversation between Mark Larsen and Mitt Romney on the morning of the Florida primary. Today a reader replied to that post with the following comment:

Intrigued, I listened. I don’t get it.

1.) Romney and Larsen discuss tax policy. Larsen mentions Ron Paul.

2.) Romney dismissively says Ron Paul wants to do away with the CIA and FBI.

3.) Larsen is pissed because Romney quotes Ron Paul “out of school.” Lets say this is correct and that Romney is completely out of line. Larsen should then correctly quote Ron Paul and explain why Romney’s dismissive comments is both incorrect and unbecoming of a presidential candidate. That would have been powerful.

Instead, Larsen comes unglued, “I’ve got 4,000 dead soldiers Iraq… trillion dollars… lies… debacle… and Romney is laughing about it.” Say what? Romney laughs at Ron Paul’s purported desire to dismantle the CIA, and suddenly that’s laughing at 4,000 dead soldiers?

Jeez, you’re using Larsen misquoting Roney misquoting Ron Paul to prove the election is a sham? The only sham I see here is listening skills.

You just can’t separate the economy from the war. Why did we go to war? Because of bad intelligence from these agencies.

Romney is trying to use the increasing Social Security and military expenses to justify his argument against the “one tax” or the “no income tax” Ron Paul proposes.

It’s a simple concept that if we stop financing our needless 2-trillion-dollar-war with Iraq and scale back our police-the-world foreign policy, we could easily afford to lower taxes.

When Romney laughs at Ron Paul about his views on dismantling the CIA and FBI, he is wrong because he’s not making the connection between the war, 4000 troop deaths, and the failing economy.

Our intelligence agencies have failed us miserably despite their $40 billion annual budget. They failed to prevent 9/11. They provided Bush with false WMD information which led to the Iraq war. This in turn has accounted for almost a MILLION Iraqi deaths and over 4000 deaths of our troops along with hundreds of thousands injured and disabled.

If this isn’t glaring evidence that these departments are broken, I don’t know what is. For Romney to laugh off the idea of revamping and improving the agencies that caused this mess is ludicrous and shameful. ESPECIALLY when so much human life has been needlessly lost as a result. This angered Larsen and it should anger you.

Romney is “out of school” by his sneers because Ron Paul does NOT want to eliminate the concept of intelligence gathering, he wants to improve accountability so they do their job CORRECTLY having only the best interest of the American people at heart. And Romney knows it.

If the FBI & CIA did their jobs, we would not be at war and our economy would not be on the brink of recession. We would be able to have lower taxes, have a strong economy, and we would be safer by having our military HERE protecting OUR borders, not Iraq’s.

It is our duty as American citizens to be educated and make these connections and judging by the results of the primaries so far, most of us are failing to do so.

Not only is Ron Paul the only candidate making these connections, he’s the only one who has a real plan to fix it.

Here’s an excellent and very useful resource where you can compare the records of the remaining candidates running for president. KnowBeforeYouVote.com is a nice tool where you can size up candidates at a glance, it also provides links to helpful sources to back up the facts. Hopefully this will be eye-opening to voters who may have their opinions skewed my the mainstream media.

Tampa Florida radio personality Mark Larsen of 1040 AM WWBA interviewed Mitt Romney this morning (1/29/2008) The sneers, jeers, and chuckles from Romney pushed him over the edge and drove him to support Ron Paul. This is the reaction all Americans should be having over this sham of an election.

Chuck Baldwin wonders why we all aren’t angry about the Ron Paul situation. I personally was not very interested politics before I found out about Ron Paul. But now that I know, there’s no going back. The only question is, will enough people wake up in time?

As jcarrion1976 points out: “It’s not Ron Paul who is the target of the blackout, but his ideas of peace, freedom, free enterprise, and limited constitutional government.”

When Glenn Beck interviewed Congressman Ron Paul a few weeks ago, he said that he had received death threats from people purporting to be Ron Paul supporters. I have heard other journalists make similar accusations against Congressman Paul’s supporters. Of course, I have no way of knowing whether any of this is true or not. And neither does anyone else.

My own experience has been that Congressman Paul’s supporters have always demonstrated grace, patience, and courtesy. I have met and worked alongside Ron Paul supporters in at least four states, and I have never personally witnessed any of the anger and bitterness of which they are accused.

Not that Ron Paul’s supporters do not have reason to be angry. They most certainly do. In fact, all of us should be angry.

Ron Paul’s supporters have been subjected to the most overt and outlandish brand of humiliation and censorship ever seen in modern politics. The cable news Republican Presidential debates have been jokes. For every one question (and usually a stupid, irrelevant question at that) asked of Dr. Paul, the other participants will get three or four. Maybe more. Even though Ron Paul has received more money, more votes, and more delegates than Rudy Giuliani, the press continues to ignore Mr. Paul while showering Giuliani with coverage.

In addition, Ron Paul’s own party continues to treat him and his supporters as second-class citizens–or perhaps even as aliens from a different planet. They are subjected to insults of every type. Not to mention enduring every conceivable method to censure or remove Dr. Paul from the political process. He has been denied access to platforms, excluded from debates, removed from GOP Presidential lists, etc., ad infinitum, ad nauseam.

I say again: if anyone has a right to be angry, it is Ron Paul supporters. But perhaps the greater question is, Why are not all of us angry? No, I do not mean in a cruel or unkind way, but where is our outrage for what the ruling elite are doing to our country?

We should all be angry at the way politicians lie to us, deceive us, and manipulate us. We should all be angry at the way both major parties have completely ignored and trampled constitutional government.

Are we so gullible that we cannot see when a politician says one thing to one group of people and a totally opposite thing to another group of people? Are we so naïve that we cannot tell when a politician changes his beliefs simply in order to garner votes?

Come on folks, let’s get real: do you really expect John McCain to abandon his efforts to grant amnesty to illegal aliens? Do you really expect Mitt Romney to be a champion for the unborn? Do you really expect Mike Huckabee to suddenly be the champion for limited government spending? Do you really expect Rudy Giuliani to keep his pants zipped?

Have the American people become so numbed to truth and reality that we cannot distinguish the genuine from the phony–even when it stands right in front of us? Perhaps so. However, if the American people had any of the character and resolve of our forebears, we would be steaming mad about what our political and business leaders have done to our country.

Yes, we should be angry at the way our government has repeatedly lied to us about the economy, about sending our jobs and manufacturing industries overseas, about Iraq, and about EVERYTHING! Yes, dear friends, they lie to us about everything. It has gotten to the point that, frankly, I believe NOTHING the government tells us. They have proven themselves to be totally disingenuous and downright duplicitous. And, frankly, I’m angry about it.

In addition, I can even understand whatever anger and exasperation Ron Paul’s supporters feel regarding my fellow evangelical believers. Today’s Christians–and especially our pastors–have become little more than toadies for the establishment elite. They apparently have never read our U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Independence, or Bill of Rights. They are seemingly oblivious to our great American history and heritage. They seem to lack the most elementary understanding of even the most basic American principles.

Read the rest of Chuck’s Article here…

Why is it that the early days of Ronald Reagan were so loved by the people, but Ron Paul is considered a “whacky” “fringe” candidate by the mainstream media and the majority of the people? There seems to be little difference in their messages as you can see in this 1964 video…

“How he [Ronald Reagan] moved from here to the Reagan of the 1980s is an issue I hardly dare ponder.” - Matthew Kaney

[Via LewRockwell.com]

If not, if you want to continue to be a serf, then by all means go back to your fantasy box and keep watching corporately owned mainstream news, Dancing with the Stars, American Idol, and Entertainment Tonight. I swear, if I hear one more person say that the reason they’re supporting a candidate is because they “look presidential” I will go insane. Ron Paul for President

The video clips above are from the 1976 movie Network - watch it.