Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer: "Ron Paul's Policy/Perspective on Iran Most Accurate"

THE PHONY RIGHTWING

By Kelleigh Nelson
December 30, 2011
NewsWithViews.com

Ron Paul

Yep we're slaves alright. Tax law being the most nefarious of the lot. Certainly, we are no longer living in a land of "justice". . We have lots and lots of laws of "Control and Obedience" to the American Royalty erroneously called The Federal Government. We have King and Queen Obama and a bunch of Czar's...Does anybody remember "America"? (the land of the free?) -J. Carlton, Calgary

This is for everyone who keeps writing me and asking, "When are you going to write about Ron Paul?" No matter what I write about Ron Paul, I will be loved by some and hated by others. Please remember I started with the worst of the lot and, IMHO all but Bachmann and Paul are globalists. Michele carries a lot of baggage, working for the IRS to me is as damaging as Herman Cain having worked for the Federal Reserve. With Ron Paul, you have a man who, among other things, wants to rid us of the Federal Reserve, (watch this important video) give power back to the states, is staunchly pro-life, doesn't believe in World Government, wants to stop the federal spending, wants to stop all foreign aid, wants to bring our soldiers home, has a way to cut spending and the deficit, wants to eliminate federal departments responsible for pushing the horrid UN Agenda 21 and Sustainable Development, would repeal Obamacare, Dodd-Frank, and Sarbanes-Oxley, would lower the corporate tax to 15%, and is a Christian who isn't pandering his faith like so many of the candidates. [Link] Here is Ron's statement of faith and I love it. [Link] Congressman Paul's detractors will list many points against him, but if one only searches the reasoning behind Paul's stances, you'll find that many of them are constitutional.

Ron Paul was born in August of 1935, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies. He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have 18 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Paul was raised Lutheran, but now attends a Baptist Church.

Paul is a libertarian and thus there will be many facets of his belief system that constitutional conservatives might disagree with albeit his reasoning in most instances is sound and constitutional. If the states were given back their original power under the Constitution to decide issues such as abortion, that action would deprive the Federal government from passing laws like Roe v. Wade which resulted in a national law that forces all States to uphold abortion.

Let's look at some of the issues conservatives may have problems with, as well as those areas where we'd agree Ron Paul is the only candidate for President who is truly a constitutional conservative and who could put this nation back on the right track. Please take special notice of the links as they're quite informative and important.

1. Ron Paul voted for the repeal of "Don't Ask. Don't Tell." [Link] Paul seems to waver on whether homosexuality is a sin. [Link] The Congressman also believes the government should not be in your bedroom and says, "Gay couples can do whatever they want and call it whatever they want as long as they don't impose it on someone else." [Link]

Ron Paul stated in an article in the Huffington Post, "Everybody is an individual person, and everybody has the same rights as anyone else. The government has no business in your private life, you know, so if one person is allowed to do something so should everyone else. The whole gay marriage issue is a private affair, and the federal government has no say." Get the government out of our bedrooms! It is very important to see that this is an issue of individual justice rather than social justice.

2. Many Libertarians like Ron Paul are closer to the leftists in their love affair with Islam which is one area that is extremely troubling inasmuch as the desire of Islam is to overtake America and make it a Muslim nation. Paul doesn't believe the religion of Islam is our enemy and I'd have to disagree with him on this issue. [Link]

3. Congressman Paul says U.S. intervention motivated 9/11 attacks. [Link] Two weeks prior to the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Ron Paul says that U.S. intervention in the Middle East is a main motivation behind terrorist hostilities toward America, and that Islam is not a threat to the nation. [Link] Ron Paul has spoken about ";," which is the unintended consequences of foreign operations that were deliberately kept secret from the American public. In Christopher Simpson's 1988 book, Blowback, he thoroughly explains America's recruitment of Nazis into the CIA and its disastrous effect on our domestic and foreign policy that has lasted for years. The same goes for the other CIA foreign operations the public has no knowledge of even today. Please see this important video on Blowback.

Paul also believes we should get out of the Muslim countries now. I too believe this, albeit I want all our soldiers brought home and put on our borders with 50 caliber machine guns to protect our nation from drug cartels and illegal aliens.

4. Ron Paul, the most visible libertarian in the US (under the Republican banner), has said he thinks that sending illegal aliens home where they came from is not "humanitarian." He also doesn't believe in building a 700 mile fence. Now it seems the Libertarian Party is following this same kind of reasoning. [Link]

But wait! Here's what Ron says about illegal aliens in an interview with John Stossel. He wants to get rid of the subsidies for illegals, as well as any mandates by the Federal Government. This would include food stamps, social security, medical care, automatic citizenship under the guise of amnesty, free education, etc. Stop the free rides and they'll stop rushing over our borders. I agree with his stance. If the bird feeder is empty, the birds won't come. With soldiers on the border, terrorists won't either. Paul is against amnesty. [Link]

5. Ron Paul's libertarian views would support legalization of pornography and prostitution. [Link] Again, Ron's view is the First Amendment protection and that parents can restrict and control their children and it is not the Federal government's responsibility to do same. [Link] Prostitution is still going on today whether it is legalized or not and this is a social issue like homosexuality and pornography. Congressman Paul doesn't believe the government should legislate virtue or morality. I wish he'd tell this to the leftist Fabian socialists and Marxists we have in government control. [Link]

One of the factors that has brought the decline of morality in America is the failure of today's churches in teaching sound biblical doctrines and exhorting the members to read and study God's Word and spread the Gospel and we need to understand this rather than laying the blame elsewhere.

6. Ron Paul is staunchly pro-life and would have laws protecting life decreed by the States rather than by federal law. As I explained above, Ron would like to see Roe v. Wade repealed and let the States decide rather than having the Federal Government making abortion a nationalized law. [Link]

7. Paul believes the government has no role or authority in regulating drugs, another Libertarian concept. However, his stance has a great deal of merit inasmuch as it actually does pull the rug out from under the drug cartels and their profits. Am I in agreement? Not necessarily, but here's the Congressman's take on this issue. [Link]

8. Ron says terrorists should be tried in American civil courts. The opposition says, "Foreign terrorists belong in a military court." As for American Citizen, Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed by a U.S. drone strike in Yemen, like Ron Paul I have to ask, "Are we setting a precedent that will be used against other US citizens in the future?" [Link] It is something we definitely need to consider. Remember, what our government will do to an undesirable citizen, they can also do to us. Note the bill that just passed and will be signed into law H.R.1540 NDAA

9. Florida Republican Congressman John Mica offered the following morally clear Amendment (5/25/2011-H.AMDT.318 (A01 Amends H.R.1540): Amendment requires that the rules of engagement [ROE] allow any military service personnel assigned to duty in a designated hostile fire area to have rules of engagement that fully protect their right to proactively defend themselves from hostile actions.

The results? (tallied here): 143 out of 185 Democrats present — 77% — voted against this amendment; 217 out of 235 Republicans present — 92% — voted for it. As for the two Republicans in Congress running who are Presidential candidates, Michele Bachmann voted for the amendment; Ron Paul against it.

AND here is the caveat, the law authorizes the United States to use military force anywhere it says there are terrorists, including within the borders of our own country and including against American citizens. This bill eliminates habeas corpus making detention indefinite. It represents the largest hand-over of unchecked war authority from Congress to the executive branch in modern American history. The founders were seriously opposed to handing this much power over to executive, fearing tyranny, which is what we have today. If enacted into law, this provision would make Obama a total dictator who can wage war without the consent of the American people, which he has already done with Libya, but would legitimize it. This bill will legalize an unconstitutional act. [Link] Ron Paul has clearly sounded the alarm regarding the imminent destruction of the Republic. [Link]

10. The bogus claim of anti-Semitism arises with Ron Paul for several reasons. Basically his stance on our intervention in the Middle East which he feels resulted in terrorist attacks against us, and his pro-Islamic Mosque stance in New York have fueled this belief. Unfortunately Congressman Paul sponsored a bill that would have eliminated all aid to Israel alone rather than all foreign aid to any country. I do believe Paul wishes to eliminate all foreign aid and I'm in agreement with this stance. As well, I have Jewish friends in Israel who wish Israel would decline any monies from America so Israel could act as Israel sees fit and would not have to bow to American interests.

Here is what my one Israeli friend said, "US aid to Israel has made us (Israel) a puppet under the power of a terrible prez we didn't elect. US money enslaves us. If no one has the guts to speak truth, they don't merit to lead a nation. We in Israel live with empty words of blowhard politicians who're afraid of making the Arabs mad. If you don't tell the truth, they'll kill more of us. IF you tell the truth, they'll kill more of us. I'd rather die for the truth than a lie. The fact is, archeology- facts on the ground- and the history of the region attest to Jews not Palestinians being here from the beginning of time. Go study."

I have to agree with my Israeli friends and with Paul inasmuch as the strings attached to accepting US dollars inhibits Israel from proper defense of their country.

In Paul's book The Revolution: A Manifesto, at the end the Congressman includes a section called "A Reading List for a Free and Prosperous America." And on that recommended reading list is John T. Flynn's book, As We Go Marching. Congressman Paul is recommending the writings of a man who, in his day, was seen as a driving force behind the anti-Semitic liberal Republican Senator Nye and the Senate investigation into Jewish influence in Hollywood. [Link] [Link]

More troubling is the fact that Ron Paul's website mourned the passing of virulent anti-Semite, Eustace Mullins. [Link] In my files I have a copy of Mullins' booklet, "My Life In Christ," which was printed for him by Aryan Nations. Any investigation of Mullins reveals strong anti-Semitism. The question is who controls Ron's website? I am sure Paul does not.
Ron's real stance on Israel is clear and the rumors of anti-Semitism are false. Here is Ron's stance on Israel in this interview. Here is Ron's interview with Newsmax on his support of Israel and from The Atlantic, "Ron Paul is More Mainstream than His Opponents on Foreign Policy."

11. Ron Paul's new Plan to Restore America basically abolishes all the cabinet level departments tasked with implementation and dissemination of Agenda 21. His supporters have been hot on all the Agenda 21 issues for a long time. They're probably the ones who got Rand Paul up to speed on the issues, since he didn't have a clue when one of our researchers wrote to him. Ron is proposing One Trillion dollars in budget cuts! [Link] Here are the key components of Paul's economic plan, "Restore America," released in October.

It’s not mentioned by name anywhere in Ron Paul's 11 page Plan to Restore America; but, the cabinet-level departments he’s abolishing (page 2 on his plan) are the same departments (Energy, HUD, Commerce, Interior & Education) that Bill Clinton appointed to his President’s Council on Sustainable Development in 1993 to co-ordinate with the UN’s Agenda 21. [Link]

For this reason alone I'd cast my vote for Ron Paul. If you are unaware of what UN Agenda 21/Sustainable Development/Smart Growth/Smart Meters/Wildlands Project is all about, then visit Tom DeWeese's site on Agenda 21.

Conclusions

No one has ever accused Ron Paul of being a flip-flopper. He has been saying the same things for 35 years. Now the latest events in America and the world have conspired to make him look increasingly on target.

Congressman Paul is by far the most radically anti-big government candidate in the running. He'd boil the Federal government back down to a few skeletal constitutional functions. He'd cut all foreign aid, abolish the Patriot Act, get rid of Obamacare, return us to a gold standard, as well as eliminating the welfare state, and federal income taxes. He hates bipartisan compromise and loves gridlock!

Are there things on which I'd disagree with Dr. Paul? You bet there are! But there are far more things I agree with him on, especially his love of liberty and the Constitution. I have spent the better part of six months researching Dr. Paul and have collected hundreds of documents and articles on the man. The elite establishment politicos and media will do anything to destroy the reputation of this man, yet he gains more followers as the days go by.

Recently he was on the Jay Leno Show. Leno asked him how he liked the debates so far and Ron answered that standing there for two hours to speak for three minutes wasn't very enjoyable. Jay also made the statement that the bottom 15% of Americans pay no taxes. Ron quipped back, "That's a good start!"

If you wish to know more about Ron Paul, go to his website, Ron Paul on the Issues. Another site that contains valid information is Wikipedia's Political Positions of Ron Paul.

Paul isn't a 6'2" square jawed hunk of male flesh with a pompous arrogant, know-it-all attitude. He's a little Banty rooster who's smaller and faster than the globalists he's running against and who loves freedom.

If there's any chance in saving our country, I believe it's with Congressman Ron Paul.P.S. Here is a recent article written by his first and only speech writer in 1976. I think you'll enjoy it!

P.P.S. As the MSM falsely attacks Ron Paul for racist remarks, see the truth here and here. Make sure you watch the video.

© 2010 Kelleigh Nelson - All Rights Reserved

Kelleigh Nelson has been researching the Christian right and their connections to the left, the new age, and cults since 1975. Formerly an executive producer for three different national radio talk show hosts, she was adept at finding and scheduling a variety of wonderful guests for her radio hosts. She and her husband live in Knoxville, TN, and she has owned her own wholesale commercial bakery since 1990. Prior to moving to Tennessee, Kelleigh was marketing communications and advertising manager for a fortune 100 company in Ohio. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, she was a Goldwater girl with high school classmate, Hillary Rodham, in Park Ridge, Illinois. Kelleigh is well acquainted with Chicago politics and was working in downtown Chicago during the 1968 Democratic convention riots. Kelleigh is presently the secretary for Rocky Top Freedom Campaign, a strong freedom advocate group.

Website: www.rockytopfreedom.com

E-Mail: proverbs133@bellsouth.net

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RON PAUL CAN’T BE BOUGHT

By Betty Freauf
January 1, 2012
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Lobbyists and colleagues of Congressman Ron Paul learned early on that he was a Constitutional principled man who took his oath of office very seriously and couldn’t be bought so they never wasted their time to get him to compromise. I guess that is why he consistently has a 100% Constitutional voting record. With tongue in cheek, may I ask, “Now isn’t that a novel position for an elected official to have?” It’s almost a given with Republican leadership even when they are in control that the Democrats are better poker players than the Republicans who fold like a cheap umbrella in a strong wind. The latest strong wind, of course, was the two-month temporary tax holiday extension – a trap that the GOP walked right into.

I remember in 1995 with the GOP under the fearless leadership of Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (GA), a government shutdown was imminent caused by President Bill Clinton’s veto of token Congressionally passed spending legislation reducing the size of government but the media didn’t blame Bill Clinton for the possible shut down. No, they blamed the Republicans for the crisis. Say what? Yup, the Republicans had submitted bills to try to cut our national debt and the Democrats turned the tables and threatened to blame the Republicans. Again, out came the cheap umbrella. Rather than have the Republican leadership articulate directly to the public at large what happened and why they were trying to save America from eventual bankruptcy, they succumbed to the pressure.

Not having learned their lesson from 1995, in 1998 we experienced Newt’s final compromise. The same GOP was terrified that Bill Clinton would once again shut down the government and blame them and they didn’t want that to happen before the elections, a period better suited for campaigning than for gridlock. Better to sacrifice a few conservative principles such as cutting spending and allowing the government to be shut down as an example, than to provide Clinton with an excuse for wielding his dreaded veto pen. Besides, the new budget “surplus” (which Gingrich brags about now) albeit a spurious one – made it much easier for Republicans as well as Democrats to “justify” spending more money. I’ve never been able to figure out how Gingrich can claim the budget was balanced so long as all the IOUs in the Social Security Trust Fund remained unpaid.

All media outlets have been brain dead on these issues so I couldn’t believe my ears on December 29 when Mark Steyn, guest host for Rush Limbaugh finally admitted he’d take Ron Paul over Marxist Barack Obama. Dahhh. This was in response to Newt Gingrich on FOX the night before saying he couldn’t vote for Ron Paul if “we, the people” chose him as the GOP presidential candidate because Gingrich does not approve of Ron’s “non-interventionist” foreign policies and planting fear in the minds of people about Iran getting a nuke. If Iran gets one, is it possible the U.S. taxpayers helped build it for the following reasons?

Our U.S. Diplomats have been accommodating foreign aid to Soviets, who support Iran, for decades. M. Stanton Evans in his 1966 book THE POLITICS OF SURRENDER (P.160) noted that the Lyndon Johnson (elected 1964) administration was spending almost $100,000 on a projected tour of U.S. scientific facilities by representatives of the Iron Curtain countries. The purpose of the visit was to have the Communist representatives “lecture, conduct seminars, survey our current research, take field trips in the U.S. and conduct research of their own.” Oh, it gets better. The visiting scientists, thanks to the unconstitutional National Science Foundation, the National Academy of Sciences, and the State Department, would be travelling first class: “American taxpayers provided travel, lodging, food, medical costs and even paid the scientists from the Communist countries a salary while they were here. If they planned to stay five months or longer, the U.S. taxpayers would have the added burden of financing the visiting scientists’ families who would also be allowed to come to the United States. Accommodation would be first class, with the taxpayer providing “housing appropriate to the visitor’s professional status and also his family.”

Our officials agreed to supply the visitors with information about our scientific laboratories in order that they could select the ones of most interest. The American taxpayer not only paid for the $3.3 billion in foreign aid every year, but now they were being called upon to foot the bill for Communist scientists to junket to the United States for a look around our scientific laboratories. Later Evans says the stated purpose for the many grants to Communists nations such as Poland, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia was to enable them to achieve “independence” from Moscow. The idea, according to Liberal theorists, was to help these regimes achieve a “certain measure of autonomy,” even though they remained with the Communist block.

History will reveal all the U.S. did was empower the Communists even more to fulfill its agenda of “external encirclement, plus internal demoralization, plus thermonuclear 'blackmail, leads to progressive surrender.” Early in the 1960s, Nikita Khrushchev in his intimidating, boorish manner described Americans to foreign correspondents in Moscow as people whom “You spit in their face and they call it dew.” And Gingrich does not approve of Ron Paul’s non-interventionist foreign policies and possibly getting a nuke?

I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thought of his guest host giving a shout out in support of Ron Paul because on his 12/15 radio show Rush was quietly whispering “Ron Paul might win in Iowa.” An 11/2/1994 article in the Portland OREGONIAN said that talk radio was booming in scope and influence and Rush was playing a significant role in shaping the issues and public opinion about them, and that his talk radio picks up, amplifies noise of conservative ferment. Every show is another gush for rush, another talk-radio triumph. Fans tune in to Rush Limbaugh to hear about the latest outrage in Congress. They heap praise on him for ‘telling the truth.’ There’s little doubt he fuels their fire.”


ME, MYSELF AND I

In the same 12/15 program, it sounded to my partially deaf ear that he was having a conversation with his telephone screener, producer and engineer, James Golden, under the pseudonym “Bo Snerdley” who must have asked in Rush’s earpiece about how Huntsman got into the campaign and the pompous twit Limbaugh said, “He sneaked in under the radar. If I’d known Huntsman was coming in, I would have stopped that.” He went on to say one of his biggest regrets was not stopping Ron Paul. Snerdley must have asked, “Why?” and Rush added, “It is a sentimental thing. He is in every campaign. You know, (Ross) Perot talked about the crazy aunt in the basement. Every campaign needs one of those and I’ve got a radio show to do, Snerdley. I can’t stop ‘em all.” Me, myself and I can’t stop ‘em all!!! Limbaugh was responsible for promoting NAFTA.

Then Rush goes on to say, “The reason I let Santorum stay in is because I like the guy. Same reason I let Bachmann stay in and the same reason I want (Don) Trump to get back in!” Rush and Trump are connected at the hip. They were victors in a golf tourney the weekend of December 10 and Trump let Rush take the trophy home and now there are rumblings on the Internet that ego-driven Trump may be considering a run for President and I notice Trump has been receiving great amounts of free television. Gretta VanSustern on FOX gave him her whole hour for an interview on December 14th and he’s had other segments on FOX.

Both Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul filibustered when asked if they would vote for another Republican which was surprising because Michele is on record giving praises to Ron Paul at another time and under different circumstances. Both have equally good Constitutional voting records; however, a recent Constitutional scoreboard showed Bachmann voted for S. 990 that extended for four years three provisions of the Patriot Act that were set to expire all of which violated the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution and may put a lot of law-abiding American citizens at risk of arrest. Ron, of course, voted against it. The surveillance technology now in use in the U.S. far exceeds anything George Orwell envisioned.

GINGRICH ADVISED TO GO PUBLIC ABOUT ADULTERY

In 2007, James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family encouraged former GOP speaker Newt Gingrich and FOX political analyst to go public with his adultery and marriage in case he decided to run for President. Dobson said the former Speaker was the brightest guy and most articulate politician on the scene today. On May 11, 2011 Gingrich announced on Hannity T.V. he was running for president. The whole gang at FOX should have their names entered into the Hall of Shame because being fair and balanced is a misnomer. I’m tired of seeing Karl Rove and his whiteboard acting as an “expert” and telling how Ron Paul can’t win and now Dick Morris, a favorite contributor and former Bill Clinton adviser says Gingrich is the true conservative. Say what? There has been enough written about Gingrich’s personal baggage – enough to fill a U-Haul trailer- but now he’s gone and got “religion” and joined the Catholic Church and his sins are forgiven. Kelleigh Nelson wrote about this phony conservative in an earlier series.

Gingrich keeps boasting of welfare reform and balancing the budget when he was House Speaker but the GOP- controlled Congress where spending bills must originate did not stop the funding of any unconstitutional regulatory agencies. Had that process begun when Gingrich was House Speaker, we wouldn’t be facing a $15 trillion deficit today. The Georgia Republican who became House speaker backed federal aid to education, land control, foreign aid, NAFTA, GATT(which became the World Trade Organization), the Mexican bailout, the Export-Import Bank, the use of U.S. military force to “democratize” the world, the U.N. and whatever else would take America away from limited government and non-intervention.

While Newt has criticized Romney’s Massachusetts Health Care, I heard Romney say in a T.V. interview that this Health Care idea came from the Heritage Foundation of which Gingrich is a key player and that Gingrich favored the idea at the time when Romney sent advisers to Washington, D.C. to help the Obama crowd write the legislation that no one could read until after it was passed. I recently learned that Frank Luntz is part of Newt’s inner circle and confidant. In 1994 Luntz conducted polls and surveys that led Republicans to devise the “Contract with America” strategy. Luntz is the person who appears on FOX with his “focus groups” and again a direct tie to the Heritage Foundation.

Mark Steyn on Limbaugh on 12/29 told about The British National Health service which is the 3rd largest employer on the planet and that the U.S. equivalent for a bureaucracy to administer health care for over 300 million people from Maine to Hawaii is going to be way more expensive than that. Steyn said if we look at the way Medicare costs have exploded and once you put Obamacare in place, that is going to explode on a scale that nobody has ever attempted before.

Heritage with state chapters has been promoting Charter Schools where unelected people run schools without any oversight. Charlotte Iserbyt, a former U.S. Department of Education employee said regardless of how good a Charter school may be, it is “taxation without representation” and, although those promoting them decry the influence of the U.S. Department of Education on local schools, charter schools must administer the federal test, which is at least 40% attitudinal, in order to continue receiving federal funding. We’ll get our public education back at the state level when the U.S. Department of Education is defunded!

In the 1992 book CONSPIRATORS’ HIERARCHY: The Story of the committee of 300 by Dr. John Coleman he writes Heritage was founded by Joseph Coors but was soon taken over by the Fabians, under the direction of the Club of Rome. It certainly is not a conservative operation although at times it may look like one. Read about the Fabians in my “America’s Creeping Revolution” series This Conspirators’ Hierarchy book once sold for $20 but because the government is buying them up, they are now selling at $300 if you can find one.

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Ron Paul Is Electable Because He's Delegatable. The Most important things to Know



This is a very informative video about Ron Paul and the current political system.

Watch This Video and LEARN what many already know

Brief Overview of Congressman Pauls 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.
He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program.

He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.

When Rick Perry was getting Ds in Economics 101, Ron Paul was writing books on Austrian Economics.

When Michele Bachmann was campaigning for Jimmy Carter, Ron Paul was one of four congressmen to endorse Ronald Reagan on his second run.

When Herman Cain was working for the Federal Reserve, Ron Paul was trying to end it.

Willard Mitt Romney set up the Basis / working model for ObamaCare; Ron Paul delivered 4,000 babies as a OBGYN Doctor

Ron Paul is a Threat to the

Military Industrial Complex

The Federal Reserve

The Big Banks that Lobby for Tax Payer Money

Big Money Interests

The Big Corporations that Lobby for Tax Payer Money

The NEO Liberals

The NEO Conservatives

The Status Quo

The 4 Left Leaning News Network

and to Good Ole Fox News that is rooted in the Good Ole Boy Status Quo G.O.P.

He may not look or sound like a President most of us are used to in the American Idol era, but Ron Paul has the brass balls of a President we haven't had since Kennedy was in the White House.

Not only is Ron Paul electable, he's the only adult in the room in either party telling us the cold hard truths that we as a country need to hear.

Everyone else is talking about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Paul is the only one that is trying to convince us to listen to him about the iceberg fast approaching. And he's been doing this for 40+ years.

The good news is that the country is finally starting to listen to him, and the tipping point has arrived.

Can you imagine the debates between Paul and Obama? Obama would be obliterated into smithereens!

In your heart, and in your head, you know that Ron Paul is right.

And if you're willing to believe the falsehoods sold to you by the media in short and tidy soundbites, you deserve the country you're getting if anyone but Paul enters the White House.

"Ladies and Gentlemen"

"The Man that has NO Corporate Endorsements"

"The Defender of the Constitution"

"The Thomas Jefferson of our Time"

"Ron Paul"

Armed Chinese Troops in Texas!

This talk is called "Imagine" and it was given by Ron Paul on March 11, 2009. The original text of the talk is below:

Imagine for a moment that somewhere in the middle of Texas there was a large foreign military base, say Chinese or Russian. Imagine that thousands of armed foreign troops were constantly patrolling American streets in military vehicles. Imagine they were here under the auspices of "keeping us safe" or "promoting democracy" or "protecting their strategic interests."

Imagine that they operated outside of US law, and that the Constitution did not apply to them. Imagine that every now and then they made mistakes or acted on bad information and accidentally killed or terrorized innocent Americans, including women and children, most of the time with little to no repercussions or consequences. Imagine that they set up checkpoints on our soil and routinely searched and ransacked entire neighborhoods of homes. Imagine if Americans were fearful of these foreign troops, and overwhelmingly thought America would be better off without their presence.

Imagine if some Americans were so angry about them being in Texas that they actually joined together to fight them off, in defense of our soil and sovereignty, because leadership in government refused or were unable to do so. Imagine that those Americans were labeled terrorists or insurgents for their defensive actions, and routinely killed, or captured and tortured by the foreign troops on our land. Imagine that the occupiers' attitude was that if they just killed enough Americans, the resistance would stop, but instead, for every American killed, ten more would take up arms against them, resulting in perpetual bloodshed. Imagine if most of the citizens of the foreign land also wanted these troops to return home. Imagine if they elected a leader who promised to bring them home and put an end to this horror.

Imagine if that leader changed his mind once he took office.

The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would be if they were stationed in Texas. We would not stand for it here, but we have had a globe-straddling empire and a very intrusive foreign policy for decades that incites a lot of hatred and resentment towards us.

According to our own CIA, our meddling in the Middle East was the prime motivation for the horrific attacks on 9/11. But instead of re-evaluating our foreign policy, we have simply escalated it. We had a right to go after those responsible for 9/11, to be sure, but why do so many Americans feel as if we have a right to a military presence in some 160 countries when we wouldn't stand for even one foreign base on our soil, for any reason? These are not embassies, mind you, these are military installations. The new administration is not materially changing anything about this. Shuffling troops around and playing with semantics does not accomplish the goals of the American people, who simply want our men and women to come home. 50,000 troops left behind in Iraq is not conducive to peace any more than 50,000 Russian soldiers would be in the United States.

Shutting down military bases and ceasing to deal with other nations with threats and violence is not isolationism. It is the opposite. Opening ourselves up to friendship, honest trade and diplomacy is the foreign policy of peace and prosperity. It is the only foreign policy that will not bankrupt us in short order, as our current actions most definitely will. I share the disappointment of the American people in the foreign policy rhetoric coming from the administration. The sad thing is, our foreign policy WILL change eventually, as Rome's did, when all budgetary and monetary tricks to fund it are exhausted.

Ron Paul is the only GOP presidential candidate with a plan to preserve Social Security benefits for people who have paid into the system.

Spartans, What is your Profession?



Who's got the Support of the Veterans

Who's got the Support of the Troops

Who has got the Youth Vote

Who has got the under 40 Vote

see ole friend .... I brought more soldiers than you did

Ron Paul