Rebuttal to Dean Odle's Statement on Ballot Access Appeal

If you have seen the other articles here, you know that I have an aversion to corrupt politics. However, I have an even more severe view of those who misuse the pulpit and scripture for their own agenda, exploiting the gullible.
American citizens and Christians have a gullibility problem!

Here below is my personal response to Dean Odle's statement:

1. Your statement paints a picture of a principled conservative wronged by a corrupt party machine—one that censors free speech, ignores the Constitution, and plays favorites with its rules. It's a compelling narrative, laced with appeals to faith, patriotism, and outrage over "RINOs." But let's set the record straight with facts, not spin.
   1. The AL GOP enforced its bylaws which was in place, when you violated them. You previously said "I did technically break their little rule." It was your deliberate choice. That's not persecution, it's accountability.
   2. When I asked you a question about your position on the Constitution, you became combative and angry, calling me a liberal/democrat, and then you twisted my words from the pulpit. Constitution for me but not for thee?
   3. Censoring free speech. Really. Kinda like how cults act, right?
2. You claim unequal enforcement, pointing to cases like former Chairman John Wahl's Tennessee driver's license and alias as proof of cronyism. But that's a false equivalence.
   1. Wahl faced a residency challenge. You violated a known rule.
      It's like pointing to a sibling with "but MAAAA!"
   2. Whispers of a "pre-decided" outcome? That's sour grapes, not evidence of a fix. If the deck was stacked, why bother with the hearing at all?
3. As for your digs at Secretary of State Wes Allen and Senate President Pro Tem Terry Latham: Accusing them of celebrating your exit to dodge debates or settle scores is petty deflection.
   1. Allen, an elected official who beat you in that 2022 primary field, has focused on election integrity reforms like paper ballots. He rightly called out the totally BONKERS ideas about flat earth/aliens that you put forth in your "church".
   2. Allen does address some issues you echo, but twist into wild conspiracies about "Deep State" and "CCP agents". Yeah, there's corruption, but everyone you go against isn't a deep-state-CCP-agent-lizard-UFO person.
   3. Latham? No evidence ties her to any "hit list" beyond your say-so. This isn't leadership; it's manipulative finger-pointing to rally your base against phantom enemies, much like your history of promoting debunked theories that undermine trust in institutions.
4. Speaking of manipulation: Alabama voters deserve leaders grounded in reality, not pastors peddling flat-Earth fantasies as gospel truth. Your 2019 book, Flat Earth: The Greatest Deception Known to Man, spans 479 pages of pseudoscience claiming NASA fakes space travel and the globe is a hoax to hide God's design. You debated it publicly in 2023, calling it "the debate of the century."
   1. During your 2022 gubernatorial run, outlets like Yellowhammer News highlighted how you dodged questions on it, instead accusing critics of being "unquestionable" elites.
   2. Let's not forget your COVID takes: Claiming hydroxychloroquine "could have saved" victims while blasting Gov. Ivey for lockdowns, ignoring FDA warnings and studies showing its risks. These aren't bold conservative stances; they're fearmongering that preys on the faithful, sowing division for clicks and clout. As a self-proclaimed "true patriot" and man of God, exploiting Scripture to back conspiracy screeds erodes the very morality you claim to champion.
5. You vow to keep fighting "anti-corruption" battles—voting machines, DHR reform, campaign finance, solar farms.
   1. Yes, we need those reforms. Noble causes, sure, but Alabama's real corruption (like the Alabama Power influence you decry) thrives when candidates like you fracture the party with infighting and fringe rants. The ALGOP isn't perfect—Alabama politics isn't—but enforcing rules equally strengthens it, not weakens it. Your suspension? A self-inflicted wound from bending them. If you truly love the party and the state, channel that energy into unifying conservatives, not manipulating narratives of victimhood.
   2. If you don't like the GOP and Democrats, don't run with those parties!
   3. Corruption starts in word, and when you willfully twist even my words for your own purposes, you told me all I need to know, to vote against you.
6. You keep positioning yourself as Trump 2.0, but what are you emulating here? Is it the part where you want to be bombastic, act like a big shot/jerk, pretend to be persecuted by the deep state alien lizard people?
   1. Debate prop: LTC Allen West tomahawk. If it's authentic, it's a real weapon, an engraved CRKT brand tomahawk. In photos, it appeared to be a fake, not what Allen West handed out. Tomahawks made of metal are weapons.
   2. Follow-up sermon: verbal shots at the female moderators, calling them "rich white girls." They're not rich, they're classy.
   3. Your self serving apology: If that's fighting RINOs, Alabama's got bigger problems—like unchecked temper tantrums from the pulpit. Pastoral abuse is real, and it is the most under-addressed thing in the Christian church, which brings real harm to human beings.
      Using the pulpit and scripture as a weapon against people is a great reason to be removed from the pulpit.... but... you own the church, right?!
7. True patriots build coalitions; manipulators burn bridges. Step back, reflect, and let serious candidates lead in 2026.
8. True shepherds of Christ's church puts self out of the picture, and allows the power of God to flow.
9. When you have to scrub your words and then paint yourself as a victim... you're not fooling anyone, except maybe a cult following.