Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

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Ron Paul Surging

Writes The Hills Brent Budowsky: http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/p ... ossibility

There are now multiple polls that show Ron Paul has gained support and has a legitimate chance to come in first or second in Iowa and New Hampshire. I would now call Ron Paul one of three front-runners in both Iowa and New Hampshire alongside Mitt Romney and a third candidate, currently Newt Gingrich. If Ron Paul wins Iowa, which he might, all bets are off

The campaign gets very interesting if Newt Gingrich joins Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Donald Trump in collapsing, which would give Paul a head-to-head contest with Romney¦

Ron Paul is now a force to be reckoned with.

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/11/21/ron-paul-surging/

The Consistent Candidate: Ron Paul 2012

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICwwgCW5 ... r_embedded



Nov 16, 2011

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The Awakening of a Generation: Ron Paul 2012

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Ron Paul leads the GOP pack….but for some reason Newty Gingrich is said to be on top

November 21, 2011 by ppjg
John Boering / PPJ Contributor

For those of us who voluntarily expose ourselves to the news that isn’t news on Lame Street Media, this morning was a real waker-upper. We have all come to expect sports games being treated as if they were of national importance; after all why wouldn’t we? It’s not like we have illegal wars being conducted on numerous fronts, or the corruption on Wall Street and in the overall banking system isn’t killing us economically.



The interlacing of sports news, celebrity mis-haps and other nonsense that is irrelevant considering the current sad state of affairs of our country goes, eats up a huge portion of valuable time that isn’t consumed by the incessant commercials for crap you aren’t likely to buy anyway.

Sports and celebrity news seems to consume large blocks of time while relevant news (what little is offered) gets a few sound bites and we can suddenly find ourselves listening to a story about a man who saw Jesus’ face in cheeseburger that he is selling on Ebay. My yes….that would be important and so earthshaking.

I watch at least one of these corporate/government shills for the powers that be every morning just to note what they ARE NOT reporting that might have been of real interest and useful to the average viewer. And then it happened……………

I was sipping my coffee, kind of zoning out as the CNN (and several other cable networks) broadcaster smiled and talked about football as if it really mattered to any of us out here who are observing the slow wrenching demise of our economy, the on-going and growing corruption of the government, and suddenly Newty Gingrich appeared on my screen. The cream in my coffee curdled, and I mentally recoiled as if a huge snake had appeared before me. In essence it had.

I was stunned to learn that this pompous, arrogant, philandering, corrupt politician that we have tried repeatedly to drive out of national politics because he brings the vomit up in most people’s throats at just the mention of his name……this liar of epic proportions who claimed he had multiple affairs outside of his marriage(s) as a result of his deep passionate love of country that he could express only by engaging in repeated sexual dalliances with various women; he was supposedly leading the pack of GOP contenders for the presidential election.

Wait a minute! What happened to family values? Moral convictions? Defending traditional marriage? Rediscovering God? Cleaning up the District of Criminals?

And finally and most importantly……what happened to Ron Paul?

Ron Paul has outdone every other candidate on the GOP ticket. Support for Paul on both sides of the fictional left/right divide is monumental. Yet not one cable network that aired this obviously fictional accounting of who was in the lead even mentioned, noted or alluded to the fact that Ron Paul was even in the race, much less that he was far and away the leader of the pack.

Here before me was one of the clearest indicators showing just how controlled these media outlets are; how willing they are to turn the cameras on and stare straight into them and …..lie. The 3 minute or less snippet on Gingrich was immediately followed by news about the Giants….then another on how Michael Vick broke some ribs. I know this only because I was sitting in stunned, paralyzed silence, unable to hit the “off” button on the remote.
Newty Gingrich isn’t even a contender, unless of course we are considering going into the business of running brothels, internationally.

At some point maybe Ron Paul will ditch the Republican party and run as an Independent. If he were to do this, and if the electronic voting machines weren’t so easily rigged, it is quite possible that a true landslide election would occur. Can’t you just imagine the “reporting” on these government controlled media outlets? Maybe something like…….

“Good morning! Newty Gingrich joins us to discuss the presidential election and the rumor is we have a new president but we didn’t get his name which isn’t a problem for our guest because he can’t remember his most recent wife’s name! (giggle giggle)….. So Newty….what do you think about the Giants?”

http://ppjg.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/ro ... be-on-top/

Ron Paul Leading

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64BCvvKKXjQ

Ron Paul Simple Super Committee Solution

On the Super Committee

Tuesday, November 22, 2011 – by Ron Paul


This week marks the deadline for the so-called congressional Super Committee to meet its goal of cutting a laughably small amount of federal spending over the next decade. In fact, the Committee merely needs to cut about $120 billion annually from the federal budget over the next 10 years to meet its modest goals, but even this paltry amount has produced hand-wringing and hysteria on Capitol Hill. This is only cutting proposed increases. It has nothing to do with actually cutting anything. This shows how unserious politicians are about our very serious debt problems.

To be fair, however, in one sense members of the Super Committee face an impossible task. They must, in effect, cut government spending without first addressing the role of government in our society. They must continue to insist the federal government can provide Social Security, Medicareand Medicaid benefits in the future as promised, while maintaining our wildly interventionist foreign policy. Yet everyone knows this is a lie.

Keep in mind that the 2011 federal deficit alone was about $1.3 trillion, which means the Super Committee needs to cut that much PER YEAR rather than over a 10 year period. If Congress ever hopes to address its debt problem, it must first stop accumulating any new debt immediately, in 2012.

Federal revenue likely will be about $2.3 trillion in fiscal 2012. The 2004 federal budget was about $2.3 trillion. So Congress simply needs to adopt the 2004 budget next year and the federal government will balance outlays and revenue. That's all it would take to produce a balanced budget right now. Was the federal government really too small just seven years ago, in 2004? Of course not. Only Washington hysteria would have us believe otherwise.

Yet our Republican and Democrat friends on the Super Committee want to take 10 years, or even 30 years, to produce a balanced budget.

Government spending isn't just wasteful; it is often actively harmful to stated goals. The Super Committee could simply apply 2004 spending levels across the board and a tremendous victory for fiscal sanity would be accomplished.

What seems more likely, however, is a rearrangement of the tax code in an attempt to bring in more revenue. Deductions and credits will be taken away, and the Bush tax cuts will be allowed to expire. As a result, less money will remain in the private sector to create jobs and produce economic growth. The Super Committee has an opportunity to take a small baby step in the right direction. Instead, they no doubt will take this opportunity to raise taxes and make everything worse. But increasing taxes will only diminish freedom and deepen the recession. Instead of looking for ways to hike taxes under the guise of "raising revenue," the Super Committee should put forth a plan of real spending cuts to put America back on the path to liberty and prosperity.

http://www.thedailybell.com/3270/Ron...uper-Committee

Monday, November 21, 2011 11:59 AM

Ron Paul Smacks Bob Schieffer on Face The Nation

I used to have a modicum of respect for Bob Schieffer, host of Face the Nation. Not anymore. Instead of conducting an interview, Schieffer acted with clear intent to discredit Ron Paul. It backfired on Schieffer when Paul held his ground and refused to be cutoff by Schieffer's biased comments.

YouTube Video: Ron Paul on Face the Nation http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... KlBw2uocl0



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Ron Paul's strength in Iowa shows it's too soon to write him off

Though he has a large and loyal following, Ron Paul's positions on key issues sets him apart from many Republicans. But he keeps moving steadily toward a position of strength in the early voting – especially in Iowa.

By Brad Knickerbocker, Staff writer / November 20, 2011


Republican Presidential hopeful Texas Rep. Ron Paul answers questions during a campaign event Friday, Nov. 18, 2011 at the Lawrence Community Center in Anamosa, Iowa. Brian Ray/The Gazette/AP

To most pollsters and pundits, any mention of Ron Paul typically comes with an implied asterisk. Whether they say it outright or not, they don’t think the Texas congressman has a chance of being the GOP presidential nominee. Too far outside mainstream, tea party, or born-again socially conservative Republicanism, they say. More libertarian than anything else.

Ron Paul wins yet another straw poll. So why are the media ignoring him? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/ ... noring-him

Ron Paul denies third-party run. So why are pundits still talking about it? http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/T ... g-about-it

Why Ron Paul did well among social conservatives at the Values Voter Summit http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Elections/ ... ter-Summit

And yet Rep. Paul soldiers on, and you know what? As other candidates – Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain – dash forward hare-like only to stumble or be run over by the next new thing, Paul is the perpetual tortoise in the race, mild-mannered, confident and unwavering in his positions (no flip-flopper he), advancing steadily toward the first real test in the Iowa caucuses six weeks from now.

MONITOR QUIZ: Weekly News Quiz for Nov. 13-18, 2011

Consider these recent headlines:
“Ron Paul is for real in Iowa. Seriously.” (Washington Post)
“Niche Voters Giving Paul Momentum in Iowa Polls” (New York Times)
“Ron Paul’s 19 percent in Iowa may indicate a path to the nomination” (Daily Caller)
“GOP outsider Ron Paul gaining traction in Iowa” (Associated Press)
“Ron Paul And Libertarians Can't Be Discounted” (Forbes)

A Bloomberg News poll this past week shows a four-way scrum for the lead in Iowa, with Paul in second place. (Cain gets 20 percent, Paul 19 percent, Mitt Romney 18 percent, and Newt Gingrich 17 percent among likely caucus goers.)

“A caucus state like Iowa is tailor-made to maximize the vote for a candidate like Ron Paul,” University of Virginia Center for Politics director Larry Sabato told The Daily Caller. “He has a dedicated band of supporters who will show up to vote in three feet of snow.”

That dedication shows up two ways in the latest poll in Iowa

Among likely caucus-goers who say their minds are made up, Paul leads with 32 percent, followed by Romney at 25 percent and former House speaker Gingrich at 17 percent, Bloomberg reports. And Paul’s campaign leads for voter contact, with about two-thirds of respondents saying they’ve heard from his campaign.

“Paul gets labeled a fringe candidate. But in this era of a closely divided electorate, anyone who commands the allegiance that Paul does from an activist libertarian movement must be accounted for in the political calculus,” pollster John Zogby writes in his regular Forbes column.

Dedicated allegiance has paid off for Paul in a string of straw polls.

The State Column, an online source of state political news, notes that Paul took second place in the Ames Straw Poll in August (finishing just 1 percentage point behind Bachmann), and he won a Values Voter Summit straw poll in October and a California Republican Party straw poll in September.

He also won an Ohio GOP poll with 53 percent of the votes, an Iowa straw poll at the National Federation of Republican Assemblies in Des Moines with 82 percent of the votes, and an Illinois straw poll with 52 percent of the vote – more than Romney or Cain.

Much of that can be attributed to a hearty band of Paul loyalists – many of them young supporters – who do the most important thing in such contests: show up and vote.
In a way, Mr. Zogby points out, Paul is like Ralph Nader, even though he’s running as a major party candidate and not a third party outlier.
“In both cases, the support for Paul and Nader is a rejection of both parties,” Zogby writes. “Don’t expect Paul to endorse one of his GOP rivals, or for it to matter very much to libertarians if he did.”

Paul’s advantage is that rejecting both parties is a huge part of the tea party movement (at least before it started running its own Republicans in 2010) as well as of libertarianism. His challenge is that electability – finding the candidate most likely to defeat Barack Obama – has become the main thing Republicans are looking for in whichever champion they finally settle on.

Much of what Paul advocates is appealing to at least one faction of the Republican Party (mainstream, tea party, and socially conservatives), whether it’s about abortion, the definition of marriage, government regulation, foreign aid, military actions abroad, health care, or immigration.

He describes himself as “a constitutionalist” in ways that could appeal to civil libertarians. (He advocates an end to the Patriot Act, warrantless searches, the TSA, and the “war on drugs.”)

But it’s hard to imagine a Republican Party presidential candidate these days who would not support a constitutional ban on abortion, would cut defense spending by nearly a billion dollars, would shutter at least a half dozen departments of federal government, would leave it to religions (and not government) to define marriage, or who would end all US aid to Israel.

And while Romney beats Obama in at least a few polls, Paul does not, according to Real Clear Politics.

Still, Ron Paul keeps moving steadily toward a position of strength in the early voting – especially in Iowa. So he may yet surprise the pundits writing him off today.

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Electio...-write-him-off