Ryan Zinke: the greater evil

By Chuck Baldwin

Republican hacks are famous for promoting the "lesser of two evils" mantra. The idea goes something like this: No matter how bad or evil a Republican candidate might be, the Democrat candidate is always worse, therefore, in order to keep the worse candidate out of office, meaning the Democrat, one must vote for the "lesser of two evils," meaning the Republican candidate. Obviously, the only way one can buy that philosophy is he or she must accept the premise that the Democrat candidate is ALWAYS worse than the Republican candidate; however, this premise only makes sense in the smoke-filled back rooms of Republican Machiavellians such as Karl Rove and John Boehner – and in the closed and shackled minds of their slavish GOP robots.

The idea that the Republican Party is a "good" party and the Democrat Party is a "bad" party is just so much horse manure. The fact is that BOTH major parties in Washington, D.C., have routinely turned their backs on the American people, the Bill of Rights, individual liberties, State sovereignty, and constitutional governance for most of the last half-century. And when it comes to building a universal Warfare State abroad and a ubiquitous Police State at home, the Republican Party in Washington, D.C., is far, far worse.

For example, the American people lost far more liberties under President G.W. Bush (a Republican) than we have under President Barack Obama (a Democrat). Bush gave us the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the indefinite detention provision of the NDAA, and the Department of Homeland Security, and the preemptive war doctrine, just to name a few. Yes, these egregiously tyrannical acts continue under Obama, but he is simply perpetuating what Bush began. Obama may be driving the tank now, but Bush designed it, built it, and test-drove it.

Furthermore, big-government Republicans are the ones who have mostly created this phony, albeit expensive, "war on drugs." Between the Democrats' "war on poverty" and the Republicans' "war on drugs" and "war on terrorism," our country is financially – not to mention morally – bankrupt. And don't think for a second that Nancy Pelosi or Obama want to give amnesty to illegal aliens any more than John McCain, Lindsey Graham, or John Boehner do, because they don't. The only ones inside the Beltway who oppose amnesty for illegals are the Tea Party Republicans.

Come on, folks, think! If electing Republicans was all that was necessary to keep out the bad guys, why does Karl Rove and John Boehner, et al. spend millions of dollars trying to DEFEAT INCUMBENT Republicans such as Congressman Justin Amash in GOP primary elections?

Here are proven vote-getters, proven winners, sitting congressmen, incumbent Republicans, and the GOP leadership in Washington, D.C., spends millions of dollars trying to defeat them. The Republican leadership spends millions of dollars trying to defeat REPUBLICANS!

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This proves that the GOP leadership in Washington, D.C., has much more in common with Democrats than it does with constitutionalist members of its own party. It also shows that the GOP establishment is much more concerned about maintaining the big-government status quo of Washington, D.C., than in defending the Constitution or in representing its own stated platform.

In truth, the GOP platform means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to the GOP leadership. It is just liturgy to deceive rank and file Republicans into believing that their national party truly represents them. It doesn't. It represents the same Big Government, Big Business, globalist elite that the Democrat Party represents.

In fact, if you want to have some fun with your spare time, just spend a couple of hours researching just how many former congressmen and senators from both major parties went on to become lobbyists for FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS after leaving Congress.

In reality, both Republicans and Democrats in Washington, D.C., have been fighting a "war on liberty" for decades.

To say that Republican candidates are automatically and always "less evil" than Democrats is a joke. Yes, the Democrats seem obsessed with redefining marriage; saving spotted owls, wolves, and swampland; giving out Welfare checks and food stamps; and implementing nationalized health care. But, when it comes to building a Warfare State and Police State, Neocon Republicans are FAR WORSE than Democrats. Far worse!

If voting for "the lesser of two evils" is your thing, and you must choose between a Democrat and a Neocon Republican, the Democrat (not the Republican) is usually "the lesser of two evils." And, sadly, that is exactly the choice that the people of the State of Montana have to make in their lone U.S. House seat next month.

The Democrat candidate is John Lewis. Lewis is, well, a Democrat. The Republican candidate is Ryan Zinke. Zinke is a big-government, pro-war, pro-Police State Neocon. Not only is Zinke not a conservative, he isn't even much of a Republican.

While a State Senator in 2009, Zinke had a score of 65% from NARAL, one of the country's most outspoken pro-abortion organizations, meaning he voted WITH pro-abortionists far more than he voted against them. He voted against the interests of the Montana Family Foundation in 1 out of every 3 votes. He voted against educational choice and voted with the Montana Education Association-Montana Federation of Teachers 73% of the time. Zinke is so weak on the Second Amendment that the NRA Political Fund graded him with a C in 2008. He is on record as saying "civilians" should not be allowed to possess .50 caliber rifles. Of course, now that he is a candidate for the U.S. Congress, and given that Montana is one of the most pro-gun states in the country, Zinke has recanted his no .50 caliber rifle position and touts himself as being solidly "pro-gun."

One of Zinke's former colleagues in the Montana legislature, Ken Miller, said, "Senator Zinke claims to be for job creation and natural resource development in Montana but has an established history of supporting radical far left groups that fight hard to keep good paying jobs out of Montana."

In fact, Zinke has changed so many of his positions during this campaign that Ken Miller said Zinke has "asserted himself as a John Kerry protégé flip-flop-flip-flop-flip-flopper."

But it is Zinke's ethics that has raised the most questions about his fitness to be elected to Congress. Miller notes: "Senator Zinke was a founder and chairman of SOFA, a 'Super PAC,' gathering large out of state, special interest money. He was a major leader and fundraiser for SOFA up to his candidacy. Now SOFA is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting his candidacy."

Miller goes on to say that Zinke's congressional campaign "has raised more than 80% of its funds from outside of Montana, with much of it coming from Wall Street fat cats and DC insiders."

And let's not forget that Zinke is a co-owner of a drone manufacturing company. But we can expect him to vote pro-liberty in the war against the proliferation of the government usage of drones to spy on American citizens, can't we? Yeah, right!

Here is the Vote Smart tab sheet on Ryan Zinke:

Ryan K. Zinke's Ratings And Endorsements

Furthermore, according to Navy SEAL commander, Larry Bailey, Ryan Zinke "tries to rewrite his personal history in order to achieve political office." In other words, Zinke is lying about his military record. Captain Bailey went on to say this about Zinke, "Ryan's ambitions will not stop here. He has shown by his dissimulation of facts regarding his career that he is willing to do whatever it takes to reach the next level."

See the report here:

Controversy About Ryan Zinke, Montana Candidate For Congress

Zinke is trying to obfuscate his dismal voting record in the Montana Senate by constantly touting an exaggerated military record as a U.S. Navy SEAL. Every commercial, advertisement, and periodical produced by his campaign brags and brags on him being a SEAL.

Ladies and gentlemen, military service, by itself, neither enhances nor diminishes a candidate's fitness for high public office. If service in the U.S. military was strategically important to elected public office, why hasn't it been made a requirement for elected public office? Many of America's most notable political figures had ZERO military service. I'm talking about men such as John Adams, Sam Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, etc. Are we to think that men such as these were less than qualified for political office because they did NOT participate in military service? Absurd thought!

A local online Republican hack likes to tout Zinke's military record while noting his Democrat opponent has no military record – jumping to the sophomoric conclusion that the Republican Zinke is better qualified (and more patriotic) than his Democrat opponent due to this one fact. That is so stupid!

There are military veterans serving on both sides of the political aisle on Capitol Hill. According to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs website, there are 20 Democrats and 69 Republicans serving in the 113th Congress who are military veterans. And according to NationalDefensePac.org, in the 111th Congress (the latest report I found), of the number of military veterans who were serving in the U.S. Senate, 15 were Democrats (including the late Senator Ted Kennedy), and 12 were Republicans.

To say that we should vote for Ryan Zinke simply because he is a military veteran is ludicrous. If that's the case, the next time there is a political race in which the Democrat candidate is a veteran and the Republican candidate is not, we should automatically vote for the Democrat, based solely on that fact, right? You'll never hear one of these Republican hacks draw that conclusion. No. They only want it one way. And the reason we only hear Zinke bragging (and exaggerating) about his military record in his campaign commercials is because he doesn't want the voters of Montana to become aware of his voting record.

Again, if you want to use the hackneyed cliché that we must vote for "the lesser of two evils," then the Democrat John Lewis is your man, because Ryan Zinke – like the rest of these big-government, pro-war, pro-Police State Neocon Republicans – is definitely the GREATER EVIL.

As for me, I don't vote for "the lesser of two evils." But, I can tell you this: the Republican Ryan Zinke scares me a whole lot more than the Democrat John Lewis. And that's a fact.

© Chuck Baldwin