Why did Dave Ramsey endorse Zach Wamp for TN Governor?

[Matt Collins]

Why did Dave Ramsey endorse Zach Wamp for TN Governor?
http://www.zachwamp.com/?p=3248&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ZachWamp+%28Zach+Wamp+for+Gov ernor%3A+Strong+Leadership+for+Tennessee%29&utm_content=Google+Reader (http://politics.nashvillepost.com/2010/06/09/and-may-financial-peace-be-upon-him/)


- Zach Wamp voted for the bailouts.
- Zach Wamp lied about his tenure in Congress (promised to serve less terms than he has)
- Zach Wamp wants to unionize all police, fire, and EMT's in the country
- Zach Wamp is the king of pork in TN
- Zach Wamp touts himself as a conservative but his voting record shows this to by hypocritical


- Dave Ramsey doesn't like liars
- Dave Ramsey doesn't like bailouts
- Dave Ramsey is (was?) a fiscal conservative
- Dave Ramsey has railed against the bailouts and socialism (which Zach Wamp voted for)
- Even talk show host Phil Valentine thinks Zach Wamp is unfit to be Governor



I would like to see Dave Ramsey further explain why he has decided to support Zach Wamp for Governor?
This is very puzzling and unsettling.

[FSP-Rebel]

Heh, Ramsey probably just endorsed him to spite you, Collins.

[erowe1]

I don't think Ramsey has ever been that serious of a fiscal conservative when it comes to politics. He generally doesn't get too political on his show, so I'm a bit surprised he endorsed anyone at all. But when he does get political, yes it's true that he rails against big spending, but it's also true that he mocks Ron Paul and seems to like the GOP pretty much the way it is.

It may be that he has some personal background with Wamp in this case.

[Matt Collins]

I don't think Ramsey has ever been that serious of a fiscal conservative when it comes to politics. He generally doesn't get too political on his show, so I'm a bit surprised he endorsed anyone at all. But when he does get political, yes it's true that he rails against big spending, but it's also true that he mocks Ron Paul and seems to like the GOP pretty much the way it is.
No Dave is very anti socialism and has repeatedly said that "we need to fire the butts of the people who voted for these bailouts"






Heh, Ramsey probably just endorsed him to spite you, Collins.
That might actually be more true than you know. But I can't talk out of school :(

[bobbyw24]

Raised is inconsistent: he advises his followers to avoid bankruptcy at all cost but he filed bankruptcy himself

[Koz]

Dave Ramsey is a JACKASS. I am a Financial Planner, so sometimes I listen to him on the way home and you would not believe how many recommendations he makes to people without even finding out enough pertinent information to even make a recommendation. He doesn't even get enough facts to make any type of determination.

[catdd]

Ramsey is pro Fed. But even so he should have stayed out of it.

[erowe1]

No Dave is very anti socialism and has repeatedly said that "we need to fire the butts of the people who voted for these bailouts"


But he didn't really mean it.

[Matt Collins]

But he didn't really mean it.
Actions speak louder than words? :confused: :rolleyes:

[Jordan]

Dave Ramsey is a JACKASS. I am a Financial Planner, so sometimes I listen to him on the way home and you would not believe how many recommendations he makes to people without even finding out enough pertinent information to even make a recommendation. He doesn't even get enough facts to make any type of determination.

I just love his "debt snowball" idea. It makes total mathematical sense! :rolleyes:

[erowe1]

The bailouts were pretty unpopular. He wasn't really going out on a limb to oppose them. It's not like he was in elected office and had to satisfy corporate donors.

He'll talk in vague terms like all the conservative talk radio hosts will about how he thinks the GOP isn't fiscally conservative enough. But when I've heard him address politics and he's really had opportunities to set himself apart from the mainstream GOP, he hasn't done it. When I've heard Ron Paul's name come up it was with a dismissive attitude. He positively mocks anyone who buys precious metals. So he obviously has a pretty rosy view of fiat currency, which tells me it's hard to see him being for abolishing the Federal Reserve.

But then, can someone really be against bailing out banks and be for the Federal Reserve? Isn't the whole concept of a lender of last resort the equivalent of a permanent guarantee of bank bailouts?

[Matt Collins]

Apparently Google got confused:
http://yfrog.com/ms4h4j