In recent months you my readers have heard me muse on my Southern heritage, a heritage I hold dear, and my hope that a new Southern nation (a Christian nation) might present an alternative "plan B" to the United States when the inevitable fall comes about. I still believe that such an alternative is possible though recent events in Mississippi, demonstrating the fundamental moral failure of voters, has caused me to understand that the restoration of Dixieland will be an uphill battle. In response, I have called on my readers to huddle closer to orthodox Catholic parishes and monasteries as we attempt to enclave to create authentic Catholic communities to weather the storm that is approaching. All of these suggestions I stand by, and encourage my readers to take seriously.
That being said, there is the short term to think of. In less than one year now, the United States of America will have a presidential election. It could potentially become the biggest election in recent history. We have to take this seriously, and we have to think about what this nation needs, and what candidates are viable. Yes, my readers, I too am an idealist, and I do wish for a better selection of candidates (and parties for that matter). However, like all of you, I am forced to deal with what is available.
That being said, I would like to call your attention not to one presidential candidate, but two. I am talking about Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich. While neither candidate alone may have what it takes to beat the Chicago political machine that is Barack Obama, the two of them together have a synergistic effect that is nothing short of political dynamite! Herman Cain would make a good political front man, contending with Barack Obama for the presidency, while Newt Gingrich would very much be the brains behind the operation. He's very smart, but not a good front man. "Cain/Gingrich" would be a winning ticket. This is not an endorsement on my part. It's just an observation. If you want Obama/Biden out of office in 2012, than Cain/Gingrich is just the combination you need to do it. That's all I'm going to say about this. It's up to you, the voters, to decide now.
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Sir Knight, God gives us the gift of prophets to encourage and spread the good news, but to also speak the truth of the difficult sins of the world and to recognize this message and do something. Our candidate for the Presidency should also encourage our nation to hold on to what is the true values and treasures of life. I have prayed hard for the gift of discernment and wisdom to guide me to vote for the true conservative candidate. One who speaks the truth of the immoral unending wars. Our wasteful spending instead of taking care of our elderly, and our soldiers and their families. Ron Paul is the only candidate who can protect us from the Obama/Bush agenda. Open your heart through prayer. And you will see that Cain, Gingrich or Romney with their love for these wars and the Federal Reserve, cap and trade, global goverment expansion are not the right candidates for Catholics. Ron Paul is moved by the spirit of God. And his love and respect for the Constitution should tell us all how right of a prophet he is. He is warning us that the nation is in great need to go back and follow the Constitution. There Sir, Knight is our sign.
You're right about Cain heading the ticket. For all his brilliance, Gingrich couldn't manage the battle against Clinton and in the end the Contract With America accomplished nothing.
A good general is a big picture guy. His gift is in taking info from his staff and using it to assemble a winning plan and then implementing that plan in a big picture way. The details must be handled by extremely talented subordinates, all of which have the skills needed to assume command if necessary.
Gingrich is perfect for the role of executive officer. Of course, this will depend on Cain expanding the role of V.P. which is something that I would think natural to him because of his corporate background.
All of this is also to say that I don't place much importance on Cain's gaffes and gaps when it comes to foreign policy. A CEO is not focused on details in the same way an accountant is. Let others worry about the details. He'll assign others to identify problems and solutions. Come to the exec with solutions and he'll implement them if they're worth it.
I agree that pragmatism is the driving factor in this choice. I wish we had the perfect candidates to choose from, on both sides of the argument. Because now, there is no argument. One side wants big powerful government and the other side wants bigger, more powerful government. Cain/Gingrich, and Paul seem to be the only ones that will actually try to reduce the government.
Ron Paul says all the right things and he's been saying them for a really long time. The problem with Paul, at least in my opinion, is his complete lack of leadership skills. He's been in office a long time and flapping his jaws a long time but what's ever come of it? As far as I can tell, all he's got to show is a few failed, really failed, runs at the Presidency and the rabid support of some college kids. And his dismissal of the threat posed by Iran just makes no sense to me. Our solutions to this point regarding Iran have been terrible but the threat is still real. They want us destroyed. Paul seems to believe that if we just leave them alone they'll leave us alone.
Can I have a hit off that pipe Mr. Paul?
Any candidate should be pro-life, end of story. It's not about lesser of two evils. We have to absolutely insist on life to be a People of Life. You know possibly if we voted in these "lesser evils" and then were extremely vocal about holding them to a higher standard that would be different. But we don't.So we are guilty of voting in King Herod's. And just as a reminder to all those Catholics out there who voted for Obama last time and are considering him again: voting for a pro-abort cadidate, who actively inflicts and cooperates with the abortion industry, is a mortal sin. Do not fool yourself with vain reasonings - you will thereby put yourself at emnity with God.
I think Gingrich for Pres and Cain for VP would be the better ticket, and more likely to win.
As for Cain or Gingrich, no way no how. Neither can be considered genuinely pro-life. Cain is either profoundly inarticulate or has no real grasp of the arguments. Both Cain and Gingrich are pro-war. Aggressive, unjust war is a life issue. Iran is no threat whatsoever and it is delusional to believe otherwise. Neither Cain or Gingrich possess credibility when it comes to reducing the deficit. Lastly as far as the Personhood Amendment disappointment in Mississippi recently if you look at the polling data the one sizeable demographic that had a extremely lopsided vote were black Mississippi voters. The defeat can only be placed on their doorstep. Don't give up on the South.
The problem here is we still think there actually is a President of the United States; there isn't. There is only Big Corporations' Employee in Chief. The same big banks that supported Bush supported Obama and will support whoever has a higher chance of winning in 2012. In the end, America is owned and Americans are not living in a democracy any longer.
A man (Gingrich) who wants a national healthcare database with all of your healthcare info in it and sits with Nancy Pelosi to hype the evils of global warming and another man who worked for the Pillsbury family and ran the KC Fed and says the Fed is an institution that doesn't need to be audited should be a team that we, as catholics can support?
Sir Knight, With all due respect, you are wrong on this one. Why not support a committed, traditional Catholic - Rick Santorum.
I think that there is a constitutional objection to such a ticket: both reside in Georgia. I'm fairly confident the Constitution provides that the president and the vice-president must reside in two different states. Remember, though he hadn't lived there in years and years, Cheney had to declare himself a resident of Wyoming in order to accept the vice-presidential nomination under W; they both actually lived in Texas. I think it's completely unrealistic to expect Gingrich to declare himself a Pennsylvanian, though he was born and raised in Philadelphia, if I recall correctly.
Ron Paul is the only candidate that unites us all. He gets it. Even Pope John Paul II warned Bush not to get into these endless wars. Ron Paul is an "honorable American rebel who believes that those who preside over our fates on Capitol Hill have routinely betrayed the word and spirt of the American Revolution." And anyone who pokes fun of him does not understand what our founding fathers envisioned for America. Liberty, State's Rights, and our Constitution should not be laughed at. All of these are America's truths. Ron Paul is an expert economist who has recieved numerous awards on economics. He is a pro life doctor who has delivered thousands of babies. He served in the Armed forces and has been a distinguished Congressman. He is a true statesmen. None of the other candidates can debate Obama and win. But Ron Paul gets the support of conservative, libertarian, independent, and youth votes. Nobody else can do this for the Republican party.
I hate to rain on this parade, but the constitution requires that the President and Vice President reside in different states. Both Cain & Gingrich are legal residents of Georgia. Look up 12th Amendment.
* sigh * I cannot believe I just read this. What happened to the push for a THIRD PARTY?
A few years ago, we were mad at Gingrich, but now, our blessed memories have failed us.
If the good knight will go through his archives and re-read all his writings on globalism and the new world order, he will realize that Gingrich, Romney, Cain are quite embedded in the middle of it all.
You have been right in pointing out the faults of Bush and a few other neo-cons. Even of talking about the absurdities of Zionism. With Cain and Gingrich, that is more money and lives lost because of backing a country who can never do wrong?
I am just confused as to how you got to this conclusion.
Ron Paul is the most Catholic-minded politician. Sure his positions seem absurd, but that is because we let today's politics dictate our lives. If we understand history, it is easy to see where the Republican Party started tilting to a Neo-Con party with a new policy on war and the military complex.
If the only tenet we support on the Republican platform is pro-life, then we are in trouble. We cannot have a pro-life government if we are not looking to punish the corrupt and changing the dialogue. The very people who scream pro-life in Congress are corruptible and have backdoor dealings.
Ron Paul is that change. Every year, he introduces a pro-life bill that his colleagues laugh at and turn down.
And of course, when the people are offered something good, they are blinded by glitz and glamour of a two party system. Then, they opt to be put back in their chains and be bound to slavery in Egypt because they couldn't see farther than the desert they were on.
It is not a matter of wining, for in "winning" we get the same results, just a different approach.
Do not think for one minute that these men will be any different in office than Obama is. Obama just flaunts the law at our faces, while the Republicans are known for going behind our backs and making deals with the enemy.
Jack Abramoff talks about all of this in his book and one needs to understand how lobbying works before they discount it as a way for the issues to remain the issues rather than being obsolete due to real changes.
As for Cain, he wants to give me a new tax, and I say no. He does not want to edit the FED and I say NO. He is confused about how to deal with abortion and I say NO. Cain is a former FED Chairman--once an insider, always an insider, so I say NO.
Gingrich is a member of CFR, and I say no. Gingrich sat on the couch with Nancy Pelosi and I say NO. Gingrich says Global warming is an issue, and I say NO. Gingrich supported TARP and I say NO.
If we have not learned our lesson, then we do need to be back in slavery.
Phil
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Quoting myself from above: "This is not an endorsement on my part. It's just an observation."
Please keep that in mind.
The Catholic Knight has not "endoresed" any candidate for president or v.p. so far. I'm not even sure I will do an endorsement this election cycle. With the amount of corporate and special interest money going into presidential elections these days, I don't know if I can endorse anyone in good conscience anymore.
BTW: I wrote a very positive article on Ron Paul some months back. I didn't "endorse" him, but I did what I thought to be a very fair review on him here.
CK ...I enjoy your articles and find most of them in line with my thinking. But, the more we learn about Herman Cain the less credible he is appearing to many. Aside from the allegations, his lack of command in foreign policy is alarming and his many gaffes are proving to show he is not up to the task in being President.
I believe Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are the best candidates to win the nomination.
The hatred for Herman Cain have two unjust reasons and one just reason.
1) The hypocritical PC lovers of diversity actually can't stand diversity of thought in the black community and can't stand a non-victim Black conservative.
2) The scam of castrating men with false or non evidenced accusations of sexual harassment has not worked on Cain b/c secretly most men know that none of them are safe from such broad and hard to prove defamation.
3) Finally, there is legitimate concern that Cain is not educated enough in politics and international affairs to sound intelligent when he speaks. His accusation that unemployed people are at fault for their unemployment is absurd given that most of these people were employed just a few years ago. Did they get lazy in the last 3 years? His blaming the unemployed sounds more like a cover for corporate misbehavior and irresponsibility in ruining the economy.
I have recently discovered your blog and I really agree with almost everything you say, esp. about the south! But you are wrong here. There is only one candidate worthy of our vote and its not even Catholic Rick Santorum. Its Ron Paul. He agrees the most with the positions of the Catholic Church. He calls torture the evil that it is. And he is the only one that says if you are dead broke, you can't keep spending. I think people don't realize how much damage is being done by continuing to print a fiat currency. Ron Paul has more integrity, moral courage, and wisdom than any of the other candidates.
Sandymomma wrote: "Ron Paul has more integrity, moral courage, and wisdom than any of the other candidates."
Now I certainly can't argue with that. Ron Paul is probably the most courageous candidate up there.
Mr Knight with this "endorsement" or whatever you choose to call it, backing Cain and Gingrich, you have definitely taken leave of your senses. Even if the GOP does nominate these two clowns, Soetoro would win in a landside, laughing all the way to his second term. You want a REAL catholic, moral, upstanding HONEST candidate? Choose Rick Santorum. Pete Frey
It's not an endorsement Pete. Just an observation. Here is another observation. For whatever reason I cannot understand, Santorum can't get any traction. If he ever gets out of single digits, I'll make a blog observation about him too. There will be no endorsements from the Knight this election cycle.
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