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Is Ron Paul Real? Biggest question in the conservative blogosphere
8 September 2007
Republicans don’t quite know what to make of Ron Paul the constitutional government candidate.
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
What’s not to love about that?
He is making the Washington DC Republicans very nervous.
Every where I go on the social networking Internet I run in to Ron Paul supporters. I have written this off as a small group of very Internet savvy supporters running a real good gorilla campaign.
But I am beginning to have my doubts that it is just a gorilla campaign. He is getting noticed. Despite attempts to “laugh” him off, he is making inroads, even my sister who gave money to Kerry is looking seriously at Ron Paul.
And Peggy Noonan at the Wall Street Journal had this to say:
From the libertarian Ron Paul a blunt argument against the war: We never should have gone in and we should get out. “The people who say there’ll be a blood bath are the same ones who said it would be a cakewalk. . . . Why believe them?” His foreign policy: “Mind our own business, bring our troops home, defend our country, defend our borders.” After Mr. Paul spoke, it seemed half the room booed, but the other applauded. When a thousand Republicans are in a room and one man of the eight on the stage takes a sharply minority viewpoint on a dramatic issue and half the room seems to cheer him, something’s going on.
I have to wonder if the good folks of the USA aren’t just a little sick of central government and centralized planning and aren’t just maybe ready to push back at Washington DC.
I am.
Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535” on Capitol Hill.
He is polling well and gaining the big “big mo”, sorry.
Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.
Ron Paul is running a very good Internet campaign using youtube to get his message out.
This guy is not a fringe nut case. His issues webpage.
The rebuilding of the Republican party has to start at the grassroots.
And by grassroots I mean door to door education of what years of liberalism and unchecked state and federal power have done. I don’t use that term just as a Democrat descriptor, it fits for Republicans .
I am adrift, I used to call myself a Republican, but no more. I got to believe I am not alone, I got to believe there must be millions of people like me just shaking our heads at the sheer lunacy of what passes for government in our states and country.
Example: In our town after large increases in taxes for schools and just about everything else the Library decided they needed to 4X the square footage and 3X the staff, it was soundly defeated. Only one politician came out and said “hopefully, they will come back with a reduced proposal”, that was the Republican 1st Selectman.
The people spoke, yet he did not hear. A pox on all your houses, and leave mine alone.
We have runaway spending, runaway federal and state interference in private matters that would have seemed outrageous but 20 years ago. The “big lie” has become the norm, the population has become skeptical and divided, repeat the “big lie” over and over again and have your hacks spin it 24/7 and it becomes an us vs them.
Aggrandising shallow candidates like Edwards get airplay when clearly he is nothing more then an extremely self-centered-vain cardboard cutout searching for any issue that will get traction. Got that?
Our property is being grabbed by private business with Government Quislings for the sole purposes of raising tax revenue. And years later, NOTHING AS BEEN DONE. We are still all at risk.
WE LIVE TO SERVE THE STATE!
Time to push back.
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