Writes a young friend: “This report from the Club for Growth includes a few embarrassing things about Ron Paul requesting some sixty spending earmarks this year?!?! Do you know if that is true? And why his change in position on such activities?”

I replied: Never trust a neocon. The Club for Growth is funded by executive supremecists and big-government conservatives, and they want the presidency deciding on all pork barrel spending (and everything else). If such spending takes place, and Dr. Paul votes against it all, he wants it decided by the congress rather than the executive bureaucracy, for consitutional reasons, and because we are threatened by executive dictatorship. We must do everything possible to dimish the executive, not empower it.

“Earmarks” do not increase spending; they move it from the executive to the legislature.

The Club for [Executive] Growth cannot be trusted. It is pro-war, pro-spending, pro-Fed, and pro-unitary executive. That is why it concentrates on such Republican political tricks as criticizing eearmarks, rather than seeking less spending, and it’s why it opposes Ron Paul.