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It's not good. Kokesh got a lower percentage than Chris Peden got against Ron Paul in 2008 in Peden's first run for the U.S. House. And Peden didn't raise a quarter of a million dollars vs. a broke challenger.
I'm really shocked Kokesh did so bad with the big campaign cash advantage he had.
I'm not shocked at all. Adam spent his campaign cash wisely, he had passionate volunteers and smart team members. Adam was the superior candidate for the people in the debates, in the media and on the campaign trail. Adam is the most knowledgeable of the two candidates and possesses the drive to make a difference. Therein lies the problem.
Adam Kokesh was not the superior candidate for the GOP establishment. The GOP leadership knew from the start that Adam would not rubber stamp their agenda, so they hand picked Mullins and crushed Kokesh.
What happened in this experiment is the same thing that is happening in virtually all of the liberty movement's bids for office. The GOP leadership and the Democrats are not at all interested in having liberty minded constitutional membership. It is fairly easy to see what is going on once you delve inside the establishment's agenda. Our leaders did not even stand up for a true audit of the FED. Think about that. Policy makers do not want a true audit of the bank! That is outrageous! But true. The Democrats and Republicans have the exact same agenda. Both parties are peas of the same pod. This is the reality, but Sean Hannity, Glen Beck, Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Ed Schultz, Randi Rhodes, nor Thom Hartmann will admit it. Neither will FOX, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS or BBC. Or, LA Times, NY Times, Washington Post, Atlanta Journal, Wall Street Journal, et.al. But it's true.
We only have the illusion of choice. The GOP's health care bill would have been Romney care. The GOP is fully backing Agenda 21. The GOP is the leader of perpetual war. Walmart or Kmart. Lowes or Home Depot. McDonalds or Burger King. Applebees or Chili's. Exxon or Conoco. Democrat or Republican. With virtually no choice at all where our children get indoctrinated... publicly schooled.
No... Kokesh would not fit, and they have the printing press, the establishment, and the system.
Interestingly, U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions was at New Mexico's GOP pre-primary convention where somebody (in a closed delegate only meeting where the rules clearly stated no promotional materials) passed degrading fliers with lies about Kokesh to the delegates. I do not know who handed out the fliers, but they were effective.
BTW: Is it Pete Sessions that Dick is referring to in this video?
YouTube - Dick Cheney ex-director of CFR talks to David Rockefeller
The sooner that the liberty movement understand our system of government as a corporation of elites, the sooner we can go about correcting it. We will spend plenty of resources this election on liberty candidates, but we should be taking a different tack.
IMHO, the most effective way to spread the message of liberty is through the airwaves. We need mainstream liberty TV and radio broadcasting written, produced and directed by Austrian economists.
Less than 10% of the vote might have been somewhat "bad", but not 20% or above. Adam should continue to run as he sees fit. Personally, I'd recommend that he keep trying for federal office. He's proven he has the ability when nearly 1 out of 3 people voted for him... Way to go, Adam.
