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Ron Paul Draws Big Crowds on Second of Two-Day Trip to Iowa

Ron Paul Draws Big Crowds on Second of Two-Day Trip to Iowa Four town hall meetings yield a sizable outpouring of committed and new supporters

ANKENY, Iowa – 2012 Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul again attracted big crowds at all four of his events in Eastern Iowa, closing out a two-day trip before he returns for a three-day trip to Central and Western Iowa next week.

Crowds of this size would be uncommon had the 12-term Congressman from Texas not done this in Iowa just yesterday. Or, had he not done so previously at Youth for Ron Paul events in Iowa that recently gained national media coverage.

Paul’s Jackson County Town Hall Meeting in Maquoketa attracted more than 200 people, noteworthy for the small venue, town, and county in which it occurred. The Dubuque Town Hall Meeting at the Grand River Center saw more than 350 people. The Delaware County Town Hall Meeting on the Delaware County Fairgrounds netted more than 150, exceptional for a small community. Finally, Ron Paul’s Cedar Rapids Town Hall Meeting at The Hotel at Kirkwood Center – expected to be a large event – exceeded turnout estimates with more than 350 supporters.

Ron Paul speaks at his Jackson County Town Hall Meeting in Maquoketa.


Ron Paul greets his youngest supporter at his Dubuque Town Hall Meeting.


Ron Paul kicks off his Delaware County Town Hall Meeting in Manchester.



Ron Paul surveys the crowd amid applause in Cedar Rapids.

http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/12/2...-trip-to-iowa/

“Ron Paul Represents the Ideology Republican Insiders Most Fear: Conservatism”

For many Republican politicians, being a “conservative” is similar to flying American flags at a used car lot. It’s not that used car salesman are extra-patriotic, they just know that such symbolism is good for business. For them, it’s mere marketing. The same is true of many “conservative” Republicans. Every Republican from Sen. Lindsey Graham to Mitt Romney claims to be a “conservative” these days, without having the slightest semblance of a voting record to back up such a claim.

Ron Paul has always remembered and represented what it means to be an actual conservative within a Republican Party that has largely forgotten what that term means in any substantive way. NPR’s John Nichols elaborates on this important point further:

Ron Paul represents the ideology that Republican insiders most fear: conservatism.

Not the corrupt, inside-the-beltway construct that goes by that name, but actual conservatism.

And if he wins the Iowa Republican Caucus vote on January 3—a real, though far from certain, prospect—the party bosses will have to do everything in their power to prevent Paul from reasserting the values of the “old-right” Republicans who once stood, steadily and without apology, in opposition to wars of whim and assaults on individual liberty.

Make no mistake, the party bosses are horrified at the notion that a genuine conservative might grab the Iowa headlines from the false prophets… The party’s amen corner in the media is doing its part. Republican-insider radio and television programs have begun to go after Paul, the veteran congressman from Texas who is either leading or near the top in recent polls of likely caucus goers. Rush Limbaugh ridicules Paul on his radio show, while Sean Hannity’s Fox show has become a nightly Paul-bashing fest, with guests like former Education Secretary Bill Bennett trashing the congressman with lines like: “his notion of foreign policy is impossible.”

Actually, Paul’s notion of foreign policy is in line with that of conservatives used to believe. The congressman is often referred to as a libertarian, and he has certainly toiled some in that ideological vineyard. But the truth is that his politics descend directly from those of former Ohio Senator Robert “Mr. Republican” Taft and former Nebraska Congressman Howard Buffett—old-right opponents of war and empire who served in the Congress in the 1940s and 1950s and who, in Taft’s case, mounted credible bids for the party’s presidential nomination in 1940, 1948 and finally in 1952. In all three campaigns, Taft opposed what he described as the “Eastern establishment” of the party—the Wall Streeters who, he pointedly noted, had little in common with Main Streeters.

Taft was a steady foe of American interventionism abroad, arguing very much as Paul does today that it threatens domestic liberty…

Buffett, the father of billionaire Warren, opposed military interventionism during the cold war era, declaring on the floor of the House: “Even if it were desirable, America is not strong enough to police the world by military force. If that attempt is made, the blessings of liberty will be replaced by coercion and tyranny at home. Our Christian ideals cannot be exported to other lands by dollars and guns. Persuasion and example are the methods taught by the Carpenter of Nazareth, and if we believe in Christianity we should try to advance our ideals by his methods. We cannot practice might and force abroad and retain freedom at home. We cannot talk world cooperation and practice power politics.”

When the threat of increased US involvement in Vietnam arose in the early 1960s, the elder Buffett wrote in William F. Buckley’s National Review: “When the American government conscripts a boy to go 10,000 miles to the jungles of Asia without a declaration of war by Congress (as required by the Constitution) what freedom is safe at home? Surely, profits of U.S. Steel or your private property are not more sacred than a young man’s right to life…”

Buffett campaigned in 1952 to nominate Taft as the Republican candidate for president. That effort was opposed by the Wall Street speculators and banksters of the day, and it failed—although not without a serious fight that went all the way to the GOP convention.

After his defeat, Taft griped, “Every Republican candidate for President since 1936 has been nominated by the Chase National Bank.”

That was the pure voice of old-right conservatism speaking.

It is echoed now by Ron Paul, who makes no secret of his high regard for Taft, Buffett and the old-right Republicans of the past, and of his disregard for the neocons and crony capitalists of today…

Paul’s ideological clarity scares the wits out of the Republican mandarins who peddle the fantasy that the interventionism, the assaults on civil liberties and the partnerships that they have forged with multinational corporations and foreign dictators represent anything akin to true conservatism.

Paul’s pure conservatism puts him at odds with a party establishment that has sold out to Wall Street and multinational corporations. But it has mad an increasingly iconic Republican with a good many of the grassroots activists who will attend the caucuss.

The disconnect between the disdain the establishment expresses with regard to Paul and his appeal to the base is easily explained. The GOP establishment chooses partisanship over principle. The base does not necessarily do so…

Paul cannot be dismissed as just another robotic Republican. Indeed, he is more inclined to challenge Republican orthodoxy on a host of foreign and fiscal policy issues than Barack Obama. He does so as something that is rare indeed at the highest levels of American politics: a conservative.

And if he wins Iowa, he could begin a process of transforming the Republican Party into a conservative party…

Nichols’ entire column is well worth your time <---- Link

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