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President Mel Gibson?
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/a...RTICLE_ID=43659
Mel Gibson pushed for president
Activist inspired by actor's stand on Schiavo, says his charisma needed
Posted: April 6, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Ron Strom
� 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Inspired by Mel Gibson's strong stand against the dehydration death of Terri Schiavo, an Oregon businessman has begun a campaign to see the "Passion" director run for president as a Republican in 2008, saying he's the only potential candidate who has the star power and charisma needed to keep Democrat Hillary Clinton out of the White House.
Mel Gibson
"Mel Gibson is perhaps one of the few men in America who has shown exceptional courage in facing up to the left and the 'culture of death,'" James Welsh told WorldNetDaily. "Americans of religious conviction have been under relentless assault for at least the last 10 to 15 years. While we have been successful in achieving some gains, our defeat in the Terri Schiavo battle has made manifest the need for new generalship in this culture war."
In preparation for what he hopes will be a Gibson candidacy, Welsh has purchased 12 Internet domain names relating to a presidential run, including gibson2008.com.
Welsh, who owns a grocery store in the coastal town of Manzanita, Ore., believes none of the current crop of possible GOP contenders can beat Clinton, who he says "will be" the Democratic nominee.
"There is no 'regular' Republican who has the necessary charisma to galvanize us to work for his election," Welsh said. "Even the usually good people like Sen. Rick Santorum, nice as they are, do not have it. What I want to do is somehow create a momentum from several fronts that will ultimately, in late 2007, coalesce into an unstoppable candidacy of Mel Gibson."
Welsh says President Bush and Gov. Jeb Bush, "while good men, were found wanting [in the Schiavo case] and the religious right is disappointed. We lost this battle because our leaders failed to muster on the field of battle. � We must look for new leadership."
As WorldNetDaily reported, Gibson was outspoken last week on the eve of Schiavo's death, calling it "a prolonged and cruel execution."
"It's just completely wrong to deprive this poor woman of food and water," he told radio talk-show host Sean Hannity. Brain-injured 15 years ago, Schiavo died 13 days after her feeding tube was removed by court order.
Without naming names, Gibson implicated the Bushes for not doing more to save Schiavo:
"It's nothing more than state-sanctioned murder. All the big guys, they all have their hands tied up by some tinhorn judge down there. Come on, when they want to whip a judge, they got no problem doing that. Look what they did to [Ten Commandments proponent Roy Moore] in a heartbeat. So they can do it if they want. They just don't want to."
It's that kind of boldness that's needed in a presidential candidate, contends Welsh.
"No longer can we give passes to Republican politicians just because they are Republicans," he said. "How can we fight the battle for life if we must have the Giulianis in our ranks?" � a reference to the former New York City mayor who tops many lists of possible GOP presidential contenders. Giuliani is in favor of legal abortion.
Welsh, whose political involvement dates back to Barry Goldwater's candidacy in 1964, envisions intentional support of Gibson among "conservative media" outlets that would translate into popular support among the party faithful. He says he has written several letters to various organizations about the possibility of supporting a Gibson candidacy and hopes a college Republican group or similar organization might put together a website that could be publicized on blogs so that eventually, "some influential people would go and talk to Mel" about a presidential run.
"We had another actor who made a pretty good president," Welsh said, referring to President Ronald Reagan.
Of Clinton's appeal, Welsh commented, "There is no one who will be able to match her media presence except Gibson. A Bob Dole or a Gerald Ford ain't gonna cut it."
Oh ShadoWolf, you card. We've missed your contributions here over the past couple of months. 
One question though - wasn't Mel Gibson born in Australia (Perth I believe)? Wouldn't that preclude him from becoming the president of the US?
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| Originally posted by Renegade One question though - wasn't Mel Gibson born in Australia (Perth I believe)? Wouldn't that preclude him from becoming the president of the US? |
im pretty sure he isnt american, and im also pretty sure he is even too wacko to get elected|
well lets hope he wasn't born in America
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| Originally posted by biznology im pretty sure he isnt american, and im also pretty sure he is even too wacko to get elected| |
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| Gibson was born Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson in Peekskill, New York, the sixth child of eleven born to Hutton and Ann Gibson. |
he might not do as bad as expected if he is going up against Hillary. Im not sure is America is ready to elect a woman yet. After Arnie, anything is possible.
he grew up in australia, he was a surfie hah
Please have this guy run. I'd love to hear Sean Hannity talk about how the left is out of touch with reality while supporting Mel. I'd also really like to hear some stump speeches that further detail how strict constructionist, conservative judges are being activists causing "judicial tyranny." Someone should alert Mel and the few dozen Schiavo hospice protesters (who got more attention from the liberal media than hundreds of thousands of war protesters ever did) that other people are "starving to death like criminals" in that very same hospice right now as well as around the country. Why aren't they doing anything to stop it?!?!?!
Mel Gibson was born in NY & then moved to Austrailia very young. I cant believe this guy thinks he is the only chance against Hillary. Did he forget McCain.
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| Originally posted by Nou Holy fuck.... cartman would shit himself if he did. Anyways... if it did happen, well then the world is fucked, I dont care who you are or what your beliefes are, but this guy is to fucking nuts for anyones good. |
His dad is a nutjob... and I'd be afraid the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree.
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| Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov His dad is a nutjob... and I'd be afraid the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. |
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| Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov His dad is a nutjob... and I'd be afraid the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. |
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