John McCain Pro Life? What A Joke!

by Dr. Chuck Baldwin - August 22, 2008

Once again, "pro-life" Christians are doing back flips to try and justify their compromise of the life issue by trying to convince everyone (including themselves) that John McCain is truly pro-life. However, these same people know in their hearts that John McCain shares no fidelity to the life issue in any significant or meaningful way. Like many in the Republican Party, McCain's commitment to life is about as deep as a mud puddle.

Dare I remind everyone that the "pro-life" GOP controlled the entire federal government from 2000 to 2006 and nothing was done to overturn Roe v. Wade or end legal abortion-on-demand? When George W. Bush took the oath of office in January of 2001, over one million innocent unborn babies were being murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. And when George W. Bush leaves office in January of 2009, over one million innocent unborn babies would still be murdered in the wombs of their mothers every year via legal abortions in this country. Eight years of a "pro-life" President and six years of the "pro-life" GOP in charge of the entire federal government and not one unborn baby's life has been saved. Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land, and abortion-on-demand is still legal in America.

Had John McCain and his fellow Republicans truly wanted to end legal abortion, they could have passed Congressman Ron Paul's Sanctity of Life Act. Year after year, Dr. Paul introduced this bill, and year after year, it sat and collected dust in the document room on Capitol Hill.

What would Congressman Paul's bill do? It would do two things: 1) It would define life as beginning at conception and, thus, declare the personhood of every pre-born child. 2) Under Article. III. Section. 2. of the U.S. Constitution, it would remove abortion from the jurisdiction of the Court. In practical terms, Dr. Paul's bill would overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand. So, where was John McCain? Why did he not support Ron Paul's bill and introduce a companion bill in the U.S. Senate?

How can John McCain, and his fellow Republicans in Washington, D.C., look pro-life Christians and conservatives in the eye in 2008 and expect that we take them seriously when they say that they are "pro-life"? If the GOP had truly wanted to overturn Roe v. Wade and end legal abortion-on-demand, they could have already done it. They controlled the White House, the U.S. Senate, and the House of Representatives for six long years, for goodness sake. The reason they did not do it is because they did not want to do it. They merely want to use "pro-life" rhetoric as a campaign tool to dupe gullible Christian voters every election year. And the disgusting thing about it is--it works.

The vast majority of notable "pro-life" leaders in the country are now trumpeting the candidacy of John McCain. And the best challenge they can come up with is "McCain better not pick a 'pro-choice' Vice President." Oh, shut up (to quote Jay Leno)!

John McCain openly embraces embryonic stem cell research. In 2000, he boldly said he did not favor the overturn of Roe v. Wade. John McCain was a member of the infamous "Gang of 14" senators from both parties whose purpose was to oppose pro-life, strict constructionist judges.

Speaking of judges, John McCain voted for the pro-abortion justice, Stephen Breyer, and the radical, pro-abortion, ACLU attorney, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. So much for the argument that we need John McCain for the sake of appointing conservative justices to the Supreme Court. For that matter, Republican appointments dominated the Court that gave us Roe v. Wade and the one that later gave us Doe v. Bolton. Proving, once again, that the Republican Party, as a whole, has no real commitment to the life issue.

John McCain also gave us McCain-Feingold. This is the law that keeps pro-life or pro-Second Amendment organizations from broadcasting ads that mention a candidate by name 30 days before a primary election or 60 days before a general election. This proves that John McCain believes neither in the right to life nor the right to keep and bear arms. (This is one reason why the Gun Owners of America gives McCain a grade of F.)

In a debate with George W. Bush in May of 2000, John McCain attacked Bush's support for the pro-life plank in the Republican Party. Still today, John McCain believes that babies who are conceived via rape or incest should be murdered. I remind readers, however, that there are no "exceptions" in the womb, only babies.

If all of the above is not enough, as a senator, John McCain has repeatedly voted to fund pro-abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood with federal tax dollars. In fact, McCain has voted to use federal tax dollars to support abortion providers at home and overseas. Yes, this "pro-life" senator (along with "pro-life" President, George W. Bush) has significantly increased federal spending for abortion providers to levels eclipsing even the appropriations authorized by President Bill Clinton and his fellow Democrats.

John McCain also supports the United Nations, which not only works to strip the United States of its independence and sovereignty, and banish our right to keep and bear arms, but is also the most radical, pro-abortion organization in the entire world. More babies have been aborted around the world under the auspices of the U.N. than any other single entity.

Tell me again, Mr. Christian Leader, how "pro-life" John McCain is. What a joke!

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Chuck Baldwin at Freedom 21 Conference - video

Dr. CHUCK BALDWIN on globalism, gun rights, and the 2008 election; interview by Mark Anderson of American Free Press:


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0.1% for Chuck Baldwin - is that all?

Nearly 2 in 3 voters want someone else

Stunning 62.4% of Americans would like to see better choices of candidates, parties in future

Besides those indicating they will not be voting at all, 2.5 percent chose other – despite the fact that all five minor party nominees were included as options for poll-takers. Among those five, Ralph Nader of the Peace and Freedom Party was the leader with 1.6 percent, followed by Bob Barr of the Libertarian Party with 1.2 percent. They were followed by Alan Keyes of the America's Independent Party nominee Alan Keyes with 0.7 percent, Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party with 0.2 percent and Chuck Baldwin of the Constitution Party with 0.1 percent. Another 0.4 percent said they planned to write-in their choice for president. ...

WorldNetDaily - August 19, 2008

[If that's all Americans think of the Constitution, we're in immense, terminal trouble. Read comments by Constitutionalists. - ed.]

Do you pray for America?

The following prayers are Scriptures adapted "vertically" to be prayed back to God. This pattern of worship, thanksgiving, confession and requesting will help prepare you to intercede for the elections. Use these Scriptures to prepare your heart to pray.

Pray the Scriptures for Election Day!

from: The Presidential Prayer Team

[This is a non-partisan effort. - ed.]

America's Greatest Threat

"No, the greatest threat to America does not come from Russia, Iraq, Iran, or any other foreign country. America's greatest threat comes from a complacent populace who would sit back and do nothing while our own civil magistrates surrender our nation's sovereignty and independence to international interests." - Dr. Chuck Baldwin

If America fails to heed Dr. Baldwin's message, and reject the Power Elite at the polls, we will ensure our destruction. - Ronald Goldwater

by Dr. Chuck Baldwin - August 15, 2008

Every time violence erupts somewhere in the world, our national leaders and news media make it sound like that particular outbreak is America's greatest threat. The conflict between Russia and Georgia is no exception. Almost as soon as news of the conflict broke, the presumptive Republican Presidential nominee, John McCain, was suggesting that the United States (or the United Nations) should send troops to the scene. I guess two wars are not enough for McCain; he now wants to start a third. (And with all his talk about bombing Iran, make that four.) And talk all over Washington, D.C., was mostly about what kind of military response the United States should take.

Have people lost their minds? Or do people really believe that the United States is the world's--or should we say the United Nations'--policeman? Apparently, that is what our national leaders from both major parties believe.

Let's face it: most of America's foreign policy over the last several decades has been more about fulfilling the U.N.'s global desires than protecting the people and property of the United States. And, yes, that includes America's invasion of Iraq.

Do readers not remember that soon after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush appeared before the United Nations and plainly told that sinister organization that the reason he had ordered the invasion of Iraq was to "defend . . . the credibility of the United Nations"? Frankly, I did not know the United Nations had any credibility worth defending. Nevertheless, G.W. Bush was willing to sacrifice over 4,000 American lives for the express purpose of defending the U.N.'s "credibility." Now, John McCain appears willing to send troops to Georgia.

I will not use this column to analyze the specific events leading up to Russia's attack against Georgia, except to say that one can count on the fact that there is much more to the story than what NBC, CBS, ABC, and CNN are telling us.

In addition, one of the major fallacies being perpetrated by most in Washington, D.C., is the notion that America is somehow strengthened and protected by aggressive meddling in the affairs of foreign countries. Such a philosophy was considered anathema to America's Founding Fathers. They rightly understood that such reasoning created more problems than it solved and that it made America more vulnerable, not more secure.

Regardless of what the underlying and overriding reasons for Russia's attack might have been, I will say here and now that the Russian-Georgian conflict is not America's greatest threat. I will also be so bold as to say that Iran or North Korea is not America's greatest threat, either. In fact, I will categorically state that no foreign nation (although, of all foreign nations, Red China should undoubtedly be our biggest concern--and none of our national leaders seem the least bit concerned about it) is America's greatest threat. America's greatest threat comes from within. And I am not alone in that opinion.

Daniel Webster warned, "There is no nation on earth powerful enough to accomplish our overthrow. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence. I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing."

While the national media focuses on Russia, Georgia, Iraq, Afghanistan, or Iran, our own leaders are quietly molding the clay of our own demise right here at home. Both political parties, and the standard-bearers they select, are facilitating the surrender of our national sovereignty and independence. They are working in darkness to build an international community where the laws and principles of individual nation-states (including America's) are made subservient to the laws and principles of international entities. This is America's greatest threat.

For example, John McCain supports the International Criminal Court. Can you believe this? Can you imagine U.S. citizens being hauled off before an international court to be tried for crimes? Imagine an international court whose rulings and opinions overrule U.S. rulings and opinions. Imagine a court setting where the constitutional protections of the Bill of Rights are null and void. Imagine a court setting where international law trumps U.S. or state laws. If that is not a surrender of U.S. sovereignty, nothing is! And John McCain is all for it.

Furthermore, both John McCain and Barack Obama support NAFTA, the WTO, GATT, and the FTAA. Both major party candidates support the NAFTA superhighway, the creation of a North American Community (which is the precursor to a North American Union), the SPP, and the United Nations.

Ladies and Gentlemen, America is on the verge of losing its independence and its national sovereignty. And both major political parties (along with a compliant national media) are equally culpable. And mark this down: when America loses its independence and national sovereignty, we also lose our freedoms and liberties. Please remember that before a Constitution and Bill of Rights could be drafted, there was first drafted a Declaration of Independence. It is the Declaration of Independence that lays the cornerstone and builds the wall of protection around the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Lose the Declaration and we lose the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

No, the greatest threat to America does not come from Russia, Iraq, Iran, or any other foreign country. America's greatest threat comes from a complacent populace who would sit back and do nothing while our own civil magistrates surrender our nation's sovereignty and independence to international interests.

Think about it: 232 years after Thomas Jefferson drafted the Declaration of Independence, and after our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to defend that document, our nation's leaders from both major parties are in the process of ceding America back to the kind of global empire from which we fought to break free. This is America's greatest threat!

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Pray the Vote - America needs prayer in 2008

Whether your involvement in the political process has been limited to a casual glance at the debates or you are deeply involved, you may never have thought to engage the electoral process through prayer!

Prayer is the most significant way you can impact our country. When you bring the political process before God, things happen—by God’s initiative, and in your mind and heart. It’s a powerful and empowering process. We urge you to try it and see!

[This blog is at a loss to understand why "Pray the Vote 2008" makes no mention of Dr. Chuck Baldwin. - ed.]

4 more years of WHAT?! - video

America voters, is this what you want? Vote for McCain or Obama, and you will get it. If you care about Constitutional freedoms, vote for Chuck Baldwin/Darrell Castle of the Constitution Party.


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A Catholic Case Against Barack

In the Pennsylvania primary, Barack Obama rolled up more than 90 percent of the African-American vote. Among Catholics, he lost by 40 points. The cool liberal Harvard Law grad was not a good fit for the socially conservative ethnics of Altoona, Aliquippa and Johnstown.

But if Barack had a problem with Catholics then, he has a far higher hurdle to surmount in the fall, with those millions of Catholics who still take their faith and moral code seriously. ...

by Patrick J. Buchanan - HUMAN EVENTS - Aug. 12, 2008

Mr. Buchanan is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Churchill, Hitler, and "The Unnecessary War": How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, "The Death of the West,", "The Great Betrayal," "A Republic, Not an Empire" and "Where the Right Went Wrong."

Book Attacking Obama Hopes to Repeat ’04 Anti-Kerry Feat

In the summer of 2004 the conservative gadfly Jerome R. Corsi shot to the top of the best-seller lists as co-author of “Unfit for Command,” the book attacking Senator John Kerry’s record on a Vietnam War Swift boat that began the larger damaging campaign against Mr. Kerry’s war credentials as he sought the presidency.

...Mr. Corsi, who has over the years also written critically about Senator John McCain, Mr. Obama’s probable Republican opponent, said he supported the Constitution Party presidential nominee, Chuck Baldwin, and had not been in touch with McCain aides. He called his reporting on Mr. Obama, which he stands by, “investigative,” not prosecutorial.

By JIM RUTENBERG and JULIE BOSMAN - NYTimes.com - August 12, 2008

Open the Debates or Offer an Alternative - video

Currently shut out of the Presidential debates by the requirement thresholds set by the non-profit “Non-Partisan” corporation Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD), veteran Presidential campaigner Ralph Nader has called for a Super Rally to be held on the Eve of presumptive candidate Barack Obama’s big night.

If Obama and McCain choose not to come, they must have their reasons, but at least we’d hear from the likes of Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin - maybe we can have some spontaneous dialogue that way. A novel approach to debate, spontaneity. ...

by Babette Hogan - www.opednews.com - Aug. 13, 2008

RALPH NADER ON THE DEBATES...

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Chuck Baldwin, illegals, sovereignty, and America first

Immigration finds itself buried by the media, Obama and McCain, while third party candidates like [Chuck] Baldwin, Barr, Keyes and Paul who would stand up for our Constitution---never see a line of ink or a national camera. ...

20 Million Listeners Stunned at America's Future

On Monday, August 11, 2008, at midnight Mountain Time, George Noory on www.coasttocoastam.com interviewed yours truly for three hours. You may engage the link to listen to the archived interview at his website.

The audience of 20 million sat stunned while George and I discussed America’s future—IF--we allow legal and illegal immigration to add 100 million people into this country. Everything we take for granted today will not be there for future generations.

By Frosty Wooldridge - August 14, 2008 - NewsWithViews.com

Revolution Sunday - August 17

This coming Sunday, August 17, the Baldwin Campaign and the Constitution Party are going to be live all day on

Revolution Broadcasting.

A variety of local candidates, state leaders, and Chuck and Darrell themselves are going to be speaking and interviewed all throughout the day. Please tune in then to be a part of this great day!

- message from Baldwin08.com

Chuck Baldwin - Darrell Castle Event Schedule

Keep up with the Constitution Party candidates' schedules, including radio/TV appearances.

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Dr. Baldwin will be on Alex Jones' InfoWars program, Wed., Aug. 13, 2008, 3:00pm ET. You can HEAR IT ONLINE. Look for the

LISTEN TO ALEX JONES link:

Listen to the
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Billy Graham on voting

"...but he [a relative] said I have a God-given responsibility to vote. Is he right?"

- from Billy Graham's My Answer column

Baldwin-Castle ballot access update

Dr. Chuck Baldwin and Mr. Darrell Castle are on the ballot in twenty-six states, according to Constitution Party records, as of Monday, August 11, 2008.

• Write-in eligible in 9 states

• Still working on it in 8 states

• Signatures secured, pending qualification in 5 states

• FAILED TO MEET DEADLINE in 2 states

Read the full state-by-state breakdown at the Constitution Party site.

Barr short, Baldwin long on signatures in West Virginia

West Virginia: Barr Falls Short, but Will Continue Gathering Signatures to Support Court Challenge

According to the West Virginia Secretary of State, petitions for Libertarian Party candidate Bob Barr fell short. He turned in 13,036 of the 15,118 required by state law.

....and Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin submitted 21,704 signatures, which should be sufficient.

Ballot Access News - Aug. 9, 2008

Ruth K on Lew Rockwell on Chuck Baldwin

[If the title seems convoluted, it's because the subject matter is rather tangled. - ed.]

"I'll tell you, I get a lot of good info. from Lew Rockwell's website www.LewRockwell.com, however, he is a Libertarian to the core (even when a neocon like Bob Barr is running on their ticket). He refuses to put anything very flattering about the Constitution Party and their wonderful candidate Chuck Baldwin on his website."

[It gets a whole lot better. Please continue reading. - ed.]

from Ruth K on the Iowa JBS Blog - Aug. 8, 2008

Chuck Baldwin dissenter goes off half-cocked

Chuck Baldwin: articles he wrote bother me

"I had thought I had decided to vote for Chuck Baldwin awhile back even though he gave me a bad feeling, something about him to me did not seem sincere - probably mostly in my head BUT then I found these articles": (links on RonPaulForums]

"Feel free to chime in, I am still undecided on who to vote for and want some honest opinions. I don't want to start any arguments."

by berrybunches, Senior Member RonPaulForums - Aug. 7, 2008

[Other views follow in reader comments.]

Baldwin Faction of American Independent Party Files Ballot Access Lawsuit

On August 4, the Chuck Baldwin faction of the American Independent Party of California sued the California Secretary of State, over her decision last month to list Alan Keyes as the American Independent Party presidential nominee. The case was filed in Superior Court in Sacramento, and is called James King v Debra Bowen, with Ed Noonan as the Real Party in Interest (that means it is a 3-cornered lawsuit).

Ballot Access News, edited by Richard Winger - Aug. 5, 2008

[Reader comments through Aug. 8 follow.]

Republic or Democracy?

Believe it or not most people, including many of our representatives, have it wrong!! America is NOT, nor was it ever intended to be, a democracy...it is a Republic!

Chuck Baldwin is running for President…he is a strict Constitutionalist and a Christian. He is running on the Constitution Party ticket. Haven’t heard of him? Not seen him in the news? And you still think we have a free and unbiased press? Can I tell you about a bridge for sale?

Posted by TNfarmgirl - TNfarmgirl blog -Aug. 4, 2008

[A Chuck Baldwin column, "Save The Planet? How About Saving The Republic?" follows, with some very cogent closing reader comments. - ed.]