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1. For one thing another 10-20% additional real unemployment… less revenues, less business activity less, less of everything including American power and thus overall security. Downsizing American consumer demand and business activity will ripple around the world and add to the economic disaster Paul would create.

   You forgot to mention that the sky would fall 😮

2. I think Romney will expend no political capital on foreign affairs. He is primarily a business manager, and if he is elected president, most of his time and attention will be filled the all but insuperable tasks of trimming the US budget to a level affordable by present-day US taxpayers, and along with that, the also difficult task creating national policies to rebuild the US economy.

   Ditto with any Republican candidate. Much ink has been spilled here about the catastrophe we will be faced with by Ron Paul’s reputed isolationism. The facts of the matter are that (1) Paul’s isolationism is rooted in our dire economic condition, and that (2) any other candidate, once in office, will be faced with the same budget reality and have to cut back on our overseas commitments. Even Barack Obama, who is actually as hawkish as any President we’ve had recently, has come to the realization that we can no longer fight two simultaneous wars and has been feverishly re-deploying our troops.

   I don’t know what Romney would do concerning Israel. He is so heavily indebted to the Federal Reserve controlling banks, I expect him to do their bidding; and I cannot imagine them being “neutral” concerning Israel. They want whatever will generate income for themselves; and the phoney “peace process” (Read, “war process”) is a cash cow.

3. My post has gotten terribly mangled by the Israpundit machine. To my recollection, I only posted one instance each regarding Paul and Gingrich, and also posted the contributors to the Obama, Romney an Santorum campaigns. all three of the latter are heavily funded by the mega-banks such as Goldman Sachs, as well as by the Mainstream Media. Obama, who is the overwhelming favorite of the banks (followed by Romney), is further supported by government-subsidized institutions.

   My memory isn’t perfect, of course; I may have only posted the complete list on another topic.

4. Wallace,

   Did your banker pay you to say these things? Ron Paul and Jeremiah Wright! Wow! What an item! You ought to sell that to the tabloids 😉

5. Ron Paul’s foreign policy is the same as that of Jeremiah Wright who Obama said was his mentor. Wright is so far to the left that Obama had to disown him during the 2008 campaign. Interestingly, Paul’s foreign policy is also the same as that of the Nazi lover Charles Lindbergh. On September 11, 1941, he told a crowd of America Firsters in DesMoine that there were three groups pushing us into an unnecessary war, The Roosevelt Administration, the British and the Jews. You can find the video on the Internet.

6. I don’t think that is necessarily true.

   Unlike Obama, who has had incessant and unfulfillable notions of peace bridges, I think Romney will expend no political capital on foreign affairs. He is primarily a business manager, and if he is elected president, most of his time and attention will be filled the all but insuperable tasks of trimming the US budget to a level affordable by present-day US taxpayers, and along with that, the also difficult task creating national policies to rebuild the US economy.

   Romney, if president, will also be answerable to what probably will be a Republican US Senate and an all-but certain Republican US House of Representatives. The Republican Party, and especially its conservative ranks who now get elected to seats in the two US houses of Congress, are staunchly on the side of Israel.

   In any case, with the US defense budget about to shrink drastically, the USA, in order to carry out any meaningful role in the Middle East, probably will need a strong and stable Israel more than ever. The West, including the USA, can no longer rely on “Arab springs” to bring democracy to Islamic states, because no democracy as Americans understand it ever shall emerge and be permanently sustainable in any Islamic state.

   Then too, Israel now has a substantial and growing Jewish population in the annexed parts of Jerusalem and around both Shomron and Yehuda. The likelihood of any success in getting Israel to evacuate any parts of these territories shrinks with each passing year; especially so in view of the fact that no Arab government governing bodies except the bought and paid for Emirate of Trans-Jordan (or “Kingdom of Jordan”, as they style themselves), with its little sandy-haired and red-faced English Alfie of a “king”, has been prepared to agree to the right of the Jewish nation to have sovereignty over any part of the Jewish homeland. Given time, Alfie will be just another rich refugee, and Amman will go the way of Tripoli, Cairo and all the rest of the Arab capitals.

   Finally, war is quite likely to come this year. Because Israel can safely wait no longer to destroy Iran’s growing nuclear threat. An Israel whose existence is threatened cannot and will not compromise with any distant American leader over where her borders should or should not be.

   Arnold Harris
   Mount Horeb WI

7. If Romney wins the Republican nomination this would indicate another 4 x years of Obama tyranny.
   He will do his best to pressure Israel to surrender part of its Patrimony

8. Ted,

   I made the dumb error of pasting in one of my earlier comments, while I was copying what I intended as a new comment. Get rid of the duplicate comment above. (I cut and paste because I save copies of my comments in case they are not published and I might want to use them elsewhere.)

   Yamit,

   I think you know exactly what I mean, at least if you keep it in context by reading the entire comment, rather than looking for potential gotchas that you can then use to fisk the author. Simmer down and be pleasant.

   Ed,

   BO is an American non-Jewish friend of the Jewish nation. Why don’t you cut him some slack and treat him accordingly?

   Arnold Harris
   Mount Horeb WI

9. BO, that was a good reply. Also, I am not certain that your comments indicate that you support Ron Paul for the presidency, or that you ever thought he had any real chance of actually getting elected to that office. I can’t say that I agree with all of what you have written on this blogsite since I began haunting it; but I certainly could not say that what you write disqualifies you for my friendship, should the occasion ever arise.

   To other commenters on Israpundit: Most of us are here because we have strings, real or otherwise, attaching us to the State of Israel, the Jewish nation, the theory and practice of Judaism, or just curiosity as to what we are all about. Some of you are citizens of the State of Israel and have the privilege of voting in that country’s elections. The rest of us are citizens of some other country and vote in our own elections for our own leaders. So I don’t think it is fair to put down any commenter on grounds that he or she fails to see our own local politics from their own specific point of view.

   For myself, I have gone through successive cycles of support for various Republican Party presidential candidates this year, including some political figures whom we hoped would get into the campaign but did not. My preferred candidates have included Rudi Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and now, Mitt Romney. Aside from the fact that I have strong and uncompromising attachments to the eternal Jewish nation and its interests, I am an ordinary American of moderate conservative political bent. I reserve the right to change my selection of politicians based on what I think I know about their specific strengths and weaknesses relative to a wide variety of policy matters. And I think most other people whom I know do exactly the same thing.

   In any case, none of us ought to misuse Ted Belman’s blogsite by personally abusing any of his guests. That not only kills intelligent conversation but also drives away people whose opinions we ought to consider, even if we disagree with them.

   Thanks to all of you who read my comments; even if you do not agree with me.

   Arnold Harris
   Mount Horeb WI

10. What baffles me in light of the above and much more why would conservatives and republicans/ libertarians support such a corrupt dysfunctional system, unless they are one of the 1% even the top 15%? At some point the bottom 85% will revolt as has happened throughout history.

    Most Americans haven’t revolted since the 1780s. I have considerable knowledge of impoverished people (for someone who isn’t impoverished); and my experience has been that the poor are more likely to turn against each other than against the government. As for those conservative republicans supporting a corrupt dysfunctional system, I was pretty much there until this year. What has changed my attitude has been listening to my autistic son, who has a better handle on what’s going on than the vast majority of fully functional people.

    We probably earn in the top quarter, yet we have lived most of our life around the bottom quarter in lifestyle. Our current home (a condominion) is more opulent than my wildest dreams (well over twice as large as our last digs), and we can afford it only with support from my Chinese son-in-law; yet I was surprized to learn that we are well below the national median in square footage. Something is incredibly out of whack here: I can’t understand why the typical American wants to live so far beyond his means.

    Our treasure in life has never been in things; it’s always been in people. I have been homeless, and have had homeless friends; and I find no shame in it. What’s more, I know we could be right back in that condition in a matter of months, if we had a downturn. I also see no shame in the prospect of living in China, should I have to. It’s far nicer in the US. As I said, though, I don’t think we’re typical.

    We’ve seen close friends slipping into homelessness and poverty, and they’ve taken it rather well. One friend was a well-educated, articulate man who could only find work stuffing newspapers with ads for around minimum wage or less. When he lost that job, he decided to live in his van. Then an opportunity came for him to teach English in China. He died a few years later, in Inner Mongolia. He didn’t have regrets, the last I heard from him, and loved the Chinese people he worked with.

    Will most Americans take things as well as my friend, when hardship is thrust upon them? I don’t know. The NT says that in the end days, the earth will be visited by tribulations and plagues; and that people will not repent when these things happen. Instead, they will curse God because of the plagues. I think those times will be upon us in about a decade, give or take ten years. May God protect His own in those days: They will not get raptured.

11. In any case, none of us ought to misuse Ted Belman’s blogsite by personally abusing any of his guests. That not only kills intelligent conversation but also drives away people whose opinions we ought to consider, even if we disagree with them.

    I believe everyone who comments believes their comment is intelligent. Apparently you don’t agree that they all are, then many if not most would probably consider your comments not very intelligent. I would rephrase what you really mean.

12. The only candidate on the Republican slate who has a slim chance of beating Obama is Newt.
    
    Romney will get eaten up. John McCain’s Senior Moment
    To think that idiot could have been president? Chutzpa of those who supported Bush and McCain to complain about Obama.
    Ron Paul is a dangerous Joke, his groupies remind me of those who supported fanatically Goldwater and McGovern, Loyal ardent and totally stupid.

    Just like most who become cultists.

    I have one question for Paul supporters. Were he president and able to apply his economic ideas what would be the immediate results?

    For one thing another 10-20% additional real unemployment.

    less revenues, less business activity less, less of everything including American power and thus overall security. Downsizing American consumer demand and business activity will ripple around the world and add to the economic disaster Paul would create.

13. BlandOatmeal says:
    January 18, 2012 at 1:02 pm

    Yamit,

    I don’t want to insult you; but you are sounding just like an “Occupy Wall Street” advocate!

    Not insulted I am in favor of OWS, just not in favor of most if not all of the occupiers.

    Concerning inflation, I haven’t noticed it much. Food is not terribly more expensive than it was in the 70s, and services such as automotive repairs really aren’t that high when compared with skyrocketing health and insurance costs. Gas prices are very high compared to the 70s, but they have been for several years now. Cars were very expensive the last I checked, and a good friend of ours has become a one-car family once again. Housing prices are still depressed, the last I checked. Utilities keep creeping up. Interest rates are still low. All in all, there’s something of a mix; but if Bernanke keeps running the money machine, inflation may be upon us with a vengeance. I expect money to drop from airplanes a little bit before the election, to give the illusion of prosperity.

    “Karl Marx had it right. At some point capitalism can self-destroy itself because you cannot keep on shifting income from labour to capital without not having excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand, and that’s what’s happening.”

    Why did the US bail out all those corrupt banks? Why has not a single bank executive gone to jail for misrepresentation that has cost untold millions their savings and future? Why is 0bama’s finance ministry a clearinghouse for Goldman Sachs executives? Why did Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac insure hopeless mortgages? Why isn’t Jon Corizine in Sing Sing for stealing $1.2 billion from customer accts?

    Americans don’t need Karl Marx to predict this. A much greater man did, long before him:

    “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.” — Thomas Jefferson, (Attributed)

    In the first decade of the 21st century, Americans lost 5,500,000 manufacturing jobs. US employment in the manufacture of computer and electronic products fell by 40%; in the production of machinery by 30%, in motor vehicles and and parts by 44%, and in the manufacture of clothing by 66%. Over the last three decades, the percentage of low income jobs has consistently risen. Back in 1980, less than 30% of all jobs in the United States were low income jobs. Today, more than 40% of all jobs in the United States are low income jobs. A decade ago, the United States was ranked number one in average wealth per adult. By 2010, the United States had fallen to seventh. Since December 2007, median household income in the United States has declined by a total of 6.8% once you account for inflation. Since 1971, consumer debt in the United States has increased by a whopping 1700%. Unfortunately, U.S. consumers have still not learned how to stay out of debt.

    Big Wall Street banks just keep getting larger and more powerful. We have allowed the “too big to fail” banks to become much bigger than they have ever been before. The total assets of the six largest U.S. banks increased by 39 percent between September 30, 2006 and September 30, 2011.

    Wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated at the very top even as the overall economic pie in America continues to get smaller.

    What baffles me in light of the above and much more why would conservatives and republicans/ libertarians support such a corrupt dysfunctional system, unless they are one of the 1% even the top 15%?

    At some point the bottom 85% will revolt as has happened throughout history.

14. BO, that was a good reply. Also, I am not certain that your comments indicate that you support Ron Paul for the presidency, or that you ever thought he had any real chance of actually getting elected to that office. I can’t say that I agree with all of what you have written on this blogsite since I began haunting it; but I certainly could not say that what you write disqualifies you for my friendship, should the occasion ever arise.

    To other commenters on Israpundit: Most of us are here because we have strings, real or otherwise, attaching us to the State of Israel, the Jewish nation, the theory and practice of Judaism, or just curiosity as to what we are all about. Some of you are citizens of the State of Israel and have the privilege of voting in that country’s elections. The rest of us are citizens of some other country and vote in our own elections for our own leaders. So I don’t think it is fair to put down any commenter on grounds that he or she fails to see our own local politics from their own specific point of view.

    For myself, I have gone through successive cycles of support for various Republican Party presidential candidates this year, including some political figures whom we hoped would get into the campaign but did not. My preferred candidates have included Rudi Giuliani, Mike Huckabee, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, and now, Mitt Romney. Aside from the fact that I have strong and uncompromising attachments to the eternal Jewish nation and its interests, I am an ordinary American of moderate conservative political bent. I reserve the right to change my selection of politicians based on what I think I know about their specific strengths and weaknesses relative to a wide variety of policy matters. And I think most other people whom I know do exactly the same thing.

    In any case, none of us ought to misuse Ted Belman’s blogsite by personally abusing any of his guests. That not only kills intelligent conversation but also drives away people whose opinions we ought to consider, even if we disagree with them.

    Thanks to all of you who read my comments; even if you do not agree with me.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

15. Yamit,

    I don’t want to insult you; but you are sounding just like an “Occupy Wall Street” advocate! I agree with you about the increasing rich/poor gap, and the fact that we are a quasi-fascist state. We lack a Fuehrer or an Il Duce; but there certainly is an abominable marriage between a few big bankers and the government; and Obama, Romney and Santorum are all being funded by them and are in their debt. Concerning inflation, I haven’t noticed it much. Food is not terribly more expensive than it was in the 70s, and services such as automotive repairs really aren’t that high when compared with skyrocketing health and insurance costs. Gas prices are very high compared to the 70s, but they have been for several years now. Cars were very expensive the last I checked, and a good friend of ours has become a one-car family once again. Housing prices are still depressed, the last I checked. Utilities keep creeping up. Interest rates are still low. All in all, there’s something of a mix; but if Bernanke keeps running the money machine, inflation may be upon us with a vengeance. I expect money to drop from airplanes a little bit before the election, to give the illusion of prosperity.

    I didn’t look up any figures on Rick Perry, because I don’t see him as a viable candidate. I expect Romney to win in SC, and for the Tea Party (what’s left of it) to rally behind him. It seems like such a farce: We should just appoint the CEO of Goldman Sachs as President-for-Life, and be done with it. I don’t expect any blood to start flowing, other than the usual crazies; and I expect scapegoating (of Chinese, Jews and Christians, “Occupiers”, widows, orphans and disabled perhaps) to begin in earnest any time. I would like to be wrong about this. Our “Center-Right” country could turn very ugly.

16. Are you blind?!?!

17. In 1984 the ratio between CEO’s and the average company worker was 24-1, today it’s over 400-1. 70% of all American household receive some form of government entitlement. The value of private homes are at depression (1990 levels and still dropping). Trillions in private equity have been wiped out. All pensions are endangered and they will raise SS eligible dates to after most are already dead. Commercial property should have blown by now but for massive infusions by the FED to commercial banks. They must keep the Ponzi scheme going at all costs. Anybody who shops knows that high inflation exists but the government fudges the stats to give the impression it’s still low and under control.

    Romney won’t show his tax returns because either he has paid no taxes or the 15% capital gains. Except for Perry nobody has pushed him for this.

    I have seen and heard the criticism of Newt and Perry for attacking what they call capitalism and free markets. There is no such animal as capitalism and free markets both are mantras and Jingoism’s as a SOP for stupid believers who still believe in the BS they have been fed ith their mothers milk in America. The truth is almost the opposite. America is a quasi fascist economic and political systems rigged for the 1% against the rest and that includes all of the markets, just ask Bernie Madoff.

    How about the: Haves have too much, the have-nots have too little, and when people have little to lose, they lose it. Income disparity in the USA is the highest or 2nd highest in the world. When the money stops flowing, the blood starts flowing.

18. Ed,

    I had no idea you were considering me as a friend; I don’t think I know you very much at all. Yamit and I go way back, along with Ted Belman, Shy Guy and Laura; Quigley too; but I confess I haven’t paid much attention to you personally. I’m sorry to have let you down. Don’t feel bad, though; I don’t think anyone here considers me a “friend”. I’m not Jewish, so there isn’t much hope of that. I’m also considered anathema by the Christians like Rongorand and Teshuvah. We don’t have to be friends. We simply try to get along enough to get some good conversations going — hopefully, to kick some ideas around that we wouldn’t have thought of on our own. If you were my friend, on the other hand, I wouldn’t judge you based on your favorite candidate for President. I wish you well.

19. Good analysis, Arnold.

    I haven’t been following Gingrich’s rhetoric lately, but I believe I saw the term “Hail Mary shot” in a headline describing his recent moves. From what you are saying, apparently he shot and missed.

    Concerning Ron Paul, I believe he is in the race mainly to expose some of the core problems in America, problems the other candidates will not delve into for obvious reasons: We are broke and in debt, overextended diplomatically and militarily, and being manipulated by the major members of the Federal Reserve. If anyone is wondering who those members are, they constitute approximately half of the donors to the Obama, Romney and Santorum campaigns. He has planned his campaign pretty well, to get enough delegates to have a platform at the convention.

    Say a Requiem Mass for the Tea Party. They have (much too late) thrown what energy they have left behind Rick Santorum, whom the Funding Machine has identified as their third string candidate. They chose him because he represents practically no threat whatsoever to Big Banking. Ron Paul was the only danger to them.

    Yes, Mitt Romney is the apparent victor of the Republican War of Roses, and the surviving lords are all swearing fealty to him. In October or November, I expect them to do the same to Obama.

    End of the 2012 election cycle.

20. Bland, your comments confirmed what I always believed about you. Everyone who supports Ron Paul is an isolationist and cares only about what is of interest to you. You are a selfish person and not someone that I could ever call a friend.

21. A couple of the top GOP people in South Carolina said yesterday morning that Huntsman’s tossing his support to Romney means that the top contender will get most of the 5+% of the Republican primary vote on Saturday that Huntsman so far has attracted. If so — and I think it is — then this single action drives a large and non-removable spike in the coffin of Gingrich’s attempted come-back via South Carolina.

    Unless something utterly unpredictable happens in regards to Romney’s campaign or Gingrich’s, then that’s the beginning of the end of this presidential nomination campaign. Romney is slated to win an overwhelming victory in the Florida primary on January 31. And I now am sure that if Romney wins in South Carolina, even by the same eight vote victory that he achieved in Iowa, then he will win by a fat victory margin in Florida. And if all that is so, then this nomination campaign will be history, based on just the first four state candidate selection events. The fact is, Romney has been carrying out one of the most carefully managed presidential nomination campaigns in US political history.

    One can already see clear signs of everyone who’s anyone in the Republican Party giving clear signals to all of Romney’s nomination opponents still in the race that it’s time to fold their tents and either start backing Romney as the heir apparent, or just shut up and go grouse about it out of earshot of the news media. And for those of us — either conservative or independent — who want to retire Obama in November 2012, that’s exactly the result we want to see achieved. It will give the Republican Party more than nine months to organize, finance and operate a smooth campaign sufficient to blow away what many of us see as the most feckless incumbent president in recent US history.

    So what about the survivors other than Romney?

    Perry stands no more chance of winning the Republican Party nomination than Joe the Plumber, and unless he is a complete fool, he must know it.

    Santorum’s Iowa-only balloon get deflated and back down to the ground in New Hampshire, and there is no political patch or large-scale funding available to him in time to get back into the clouds. He too must know all this by now.

    Paul probably won’t quit, because he has a gang of true believers who won’t jump on any other candidate’s campaign. But come election day in November, most of them will vote against Obama irrespective of all previous arguments.

    That leaves Gingrich. Being a fairly bright guy, Newt must know even by now that the show ended yesterday morning. His ad campaign questioning Romney’s management of Bain got turned around so that it now looks as though Gingrich is questioning private capitalism itself. I’m not sure how many more anti-Romney bullets he can shoot off, but at some point in time, he has to tell himself that all this is getting him nowhere, and that hanging in to the bitter end accomplishes little more than to render him persona not-so-grata with the Republican Party as a whole.

    Arnold Harris
    Mount Horeb WI

22. American politics in 2012 is all about race, with a little class warfare thrown in.

    — Samuel Fistel

    Forgive me for differing, Sam. Most of Obama’s support comes from very white, very middle-class Americans. The party system in America today is what it has always been, two conglomerations of interests.

    One glance at the campaign contributors above ought to tell you so.

    Race? Obama has a white Irish-American VP and a practically white cabinet. The Republicans ran Herman Cain, and also have Adam West; and if a Republican is elected, you can be pretty sure their cabinet will be mixed — just as the Bush cabinet was. With half-white Obama, black Condolezza Rice has been replaced by white Hillary Clinton.

    Class Warfare? The front-runners are being funded by virtually the same banking interests. The only real difference, is the large amounts coming into the Obama campaign from government employees and government-funded universities. This is about well-heeled institutions, both private and governmental, grabbing for a piece of the pie. The proletariat are nowhere to be seen.

    The only difference from the above, are the Gingrich and Paul campaigns. Gingrich is accountable to anti-labor, pro-Israel Sheldon Adelson; and his campaign rhetoric exactly matches Adelson’s. Ron Paul, on the other hand, is a true populist; and as such, he hasn’t a chance of getting nominated, much less elected.

    If you want a word that precisely identifies electoral politics in America today, it is simply “Big Money” (OK, it’s two words; but in German, it’s probably one).

    Never before has so much been given into the hands of so few,

    to paraphrase Winston Churchill (well, sort of).

23. American politics 2012 (and its irrelevance):

    American politics in 2012 is all about race, with a little class warfare thrown in. The Republican party has become “the White Party”, composed of white christian conservatives, white evangelical christians, and white mormons.

    The Democratic Party is the “anti-White Party”, composed of white liberals, all blacks, and most latinos. Unionized government employees, unionized auto workers, and postal workers also vote Democrat.

    Since whites are rapidly becoming an absolute minority in America, the Democrats will soon be in power permanently. Obama goes into his re-election with a huge built-in lead in the Electoral College. The Republicans may be able to eke out a victory over Obama in 2012, but this might be the last time.

    The reason it is all irrelevant is that America (and the world) have been taken over by the (smart and greedy) super-rich. Since all the American politicians are essentially corrupt, the super-rich can easily buy and sell them. So whoever is elected President, the one constant is that the super-rich will remain so, since they control the money supply from behind the scenes.

    The Roman emperors used “bread and circuses” to distract the masses. The muslim tyrants use “the Jewish Israeli menace” to distract their masses. The super-rich in America use race and class to distract the American masses, pitting whites, blacks, latinos, conservatives, liberals, christians, muslims, atheists, rich and poor against each other, with a dose of “powerful, secret Israel Lobby” thrown in for conspiracy freaks.

    The super-rich are more or less indifferent towards Israel. If a Republican wins, then America will continue to support Jewish Israel a bit longer. When Democrats become the permanent majority, American support for Jewish Israel will gradually end.

24. Still promoting a dangerous anti-American candidate that doesn’t think Iran or islam is a threat to us and blames us for islamic terrorism.

25. I posted the above separately, to get around the spam-blocker. The gist of it all is that, though we may be a “center-right” nation, the people do not run the government. The big banks, who have pillaged American taxpayers, have bought the election: If you vote for Obama, Romney or Santorum, you are voting for their man. If you vote for Newt Gingrich, you are voting for a man in the pocket of Fannie Mae and of one individual, Sheldon Adelson. If you vote for Ron Paul, you are in the company of the overwhelming majority of those who fight for America; but you are unlikely to see your candidate win against Big Money. Besides his support from Wall Street, which he shares with the front-running Republicans, Obama is overwhelmingly supported by government-funded universities and by government employees. (Small wonder there).

26. Newt Gingrich:

    Rock-Tenn Co 28,000
    small donors

    “Winning Our Future” Gingrich PAC:

    Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas billionaire 5,000,000…

    (censored comment)

    I would say the big bankers own the 2012 election. (Has our country been mortgaged?) Israeli interests appear to be primarily in the person of Sheldon Adelson, who owns “Israel Hayom”

27. Newt Gingrich:

    Rock-Tenn Co 28,000
    small donors

    “Winning Our Future” Gingrich PAC:

    Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas billionaire 5,000,000

    (Adelson is extremely anti-labor, a multibillionaire casino-owner, and very fond of lawsuits)

28. Ron Paul:

    US Army 25,000
    US Air Force 23,000
    US Navy 17,000
    Mason Capital Magement 14,000
    Microsoft Corp 14,000

    (Paul’s campaign is funded primarily by small contributions. He is supported 100 times more by GIs than Gingrich, and 10 times more than Romney.

    REF: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/soldiers-choice/)

29. Ron Paul:

    US Army 25,000
    US Air Force 23,000
    US Navy 17,000
    Mason Capital Magement 14,000
    Microsoft Corp 14,000

    (Paul’s campaign is funded primarily by small contributions. He is supported 100 times more by GIs than Gingrich, and 10 times more than Romney. REF: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/22/soldiers-choice/)

    Newt Gingrich:

    Rock-Tenn Co 28,000
    small donors

    “Winning Our Future” Gingrich PAC:

    Sheldon Adelson, Las Vegas billionaire 5,000,000

    (Adelson is extremely anti-labor, a multibillionaire casino-owner, and very fond of lawsuits)