Thread: Ron Paul on the Issues

Drudge Iowa Caucus Poll Puts Paul Ahead of Romney and Santorum
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com
January 3, 2012



As should be expected, the establishment media is going bonkers over Mitt Romney. They declare he cannot lose.

But if polls hosted by the alternative media are any indication, Romney pales in comparison to Ron Paul. In fact, as of 2:30 PM CST, an informal poll hosted by the most popular and well-trafficked alternative news website – Drudge Report – puts Paul way ahead of the establishment’s favorite RINO candidate.

Of course, the real voting in Iowa does not get underway until 8 PM EST, which means the corporate media has a few hours to engage in “breathless nonstop media coverage” (as The Christian Science Monitor unabashedly if sarcastically puts it).

Drudge represents an accurate snapshot of what the many Republicans want – not more of the same establishment shell game of broken promises and left versus right diversions – but real sincere change in Washington.

The GOP RINOs pushing Romney and Santorum and the rest – including the fake Tea Party princess Michele Bachmann (who performs dismally in this poll) – are fighting an up-hill battle against the desire on the part of millions of Americans to restore the Constitution and the promise of a constitutionally limited republic, something the candidates groomed by the GOP cannot deliver and only discuss in passing. Instead, they promise to attack Iran and – as Romney made all too clear – leave the Federal Reserve alone to do its job of destroying the economy and the livelihood of America.

Check out Drudge’s poll here

http://www.infowars.com/drudge-iowa-...-and-santorum/

RON 24% MITT 23% RICK 23% NEWT 13%

The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul "Unelectable"

Submitted by Tyler Durden on 01/03/2012 12:58 -0500

Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds

The Ministry Of Propaganda Declares Ron Paul "Unelectable"

The Ministry of Propaganda has chosen to suppress the only dangerous-to-the-Power Elites candidate by declaring him "unelectable."

The Status Quo's Ministry of Propaganda has a single political task for 2012: eliminate the sole threat to the Status Quo (Ron Paul) from the running, leaving voters with a "choice" of clueless stooges for the Power Elite.

That roster includes President Obama and the daytime-TV/soap-opera field of Republicrat contenders.

The Ministry of Propaganda has settled on a ludicrous strategy to eliminate Ron Paul: declare Paul "unelectable."

As with all propaganda, the basic idea is that if it is repeated often enough on officially sanctioned stages, it will eventually be accepted as "true."

Our Christmas-New Year's week of family visits took us to homes where the television is on all the time, and as a result I was exposed to the Ministry of Propaganda's preferred media, TV "news." Regardless of the channel or program, the message was the same: "The presidential race will between Obama and either Romney or Gingrich."

Despite the polls that find Paul and Romney with equal levels of support in Iowa, Romney has been declared the front-runner and Paul written off as "unelectable."

In other words, the voters don't even need to check in; the Ministry of Propaganda's army of toadies, lackeys and media apparatchiks have their marching orders: repeat that Ron Paul is unelectable at every opportunity, either explicitly or implicitly via leaving him off the list of "frontrunners."

The Ministry of Propaganda's campaign is easily revealed by two simple thought experiments. How would the corporate media characterize Newt Gingrich's "electability" if he was running neck-and-neck with Romney? Answer: the media toadies would be falling over each other to declare Gingrich "electable."

Now repeat the experiment with Rick Santorum or Michelle Bachmann. The answer is the same: since these candidates are on the list of Power-Elites approved stooges, a showing equal to Ron Paul's would instantly win them veritable tsunamis of media coverage, all focused on their eminent "electability."

Here is the second thought experiment: does anyone seriously think any of the Republicrat candidates are even remotely qualified to deal with the crises brewing on the horizon? What exactly makes them "electable"?
Let's consider them one at a time, scrubbed of spin, PR and propaganda:

Mitt Romney: the perfect player for a remake of "The Stepford Wives" entitled "The Stepford Politicos." Romney is the personification of the telegenic, wealthy empty suit, devoid of any ideas beyond retreads of Status Quo tweaks that leave the Power Elite--of which he is a member--safely in charge.

Romney's "electability" rests on the hopes that the hard drives from his time as governor stay safely erased and that zombified voters conclude that having a family and membership in a church are sufficient qualifications for President.

His handlers have carefully studied the political satire The Candidate and have not yet formulated an answer to the question, "What do we do now?" should the wealthy pawn of the Power Elite improbably win the presidency.

Michelle Bachmann: Imagine her wearing a witch's hat, it isn't hard to do; Bachmann is the ideal Wicked Witch of the West, but without the charisma. She does have a host of frightful winged monkeys, though--her handlers.

Newt Gingrich: Gingrich has a number of redeeming characteristics, starting with his famously unsavory "baggage" that reveals an appealingly flawed core. He is also the only Republicrat candidate that wouldn't bore you to despair within a few minutes, i.e. he actually strays from the canned scripts approved by the Ministry of Propaganda. Third, on occasion he actually reveals glimmers of awareness that the next 10 years will not be like the previous decade, and that America is at a critical crossroads.

Unfortunately, his canned ideology-as-"solution" ideas expired a decade ago and he has no coherent vision of a future that isn't just a slightly modified version of the Power-Elite dominated one that is now hurtling toward instability.

He has shown a remarkable ability, however, to hide his horns and forked tail.

Rick Perry: Another telegenic empty suit who hoped that having a family and membership in a church qualified him for the presidency.

Rick Santorum: Rick's ruthlessness has its charm, starting with his long and painful campaign to establish a simulacrum of intellectual "seriousness." Like all the other stooges, his version of "the vision thing" is a tepid edit of the Status Quo. Like all the stooges other than the refreshingly flawed Gingrich, he hopes membership in a church qualifies him for the presidency.

What all the candidates but Ron Paul dare not acknowledge because it isn't on the approved Ministry of Propaganda script is that the Status Quo is heading off a cliff at the direct behest of the nation's Power Elite. The only candidate that has "the vision thing" and that clearly enunciates exactly how the Power Elite's policies have led the nation off a cliff of insolvency and Imperial hubris is Ron Paul.

For this sin against the Status Quo and its Power Elite, Paul has been excommunicated, and the (pardon my language) smarmy army of corporate media whores cannot declare him "unelectable" often enough.

That is proof that he is highly electable, for otherwise the Ministry of Propaganda wouldn't be running a campaign of such transparent desperation.

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/minist...ul-unelectable

Santorum’s 19-Year-Old Nephew Endorses Ron Paul

Tuesday, 03 Jan 2012 06:08 PM
By Paul Scicchitano

While GOP presidential candidates have been taking aim at former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum since he began surging in the polls, no one quite managed to do so like Texas Rep. Ron Paul, who is touting an endorsement from his rival’s 19-year-old nephew.

“If you want another big-government politician who supports the status quo to run our country, you should vote for my uncle, Rick Santorum. America is based on a strong belief in individual liberty. My uncle’s interventionist policies, both domestic and foreign, stem from his irrational fear of freedom not working,” John Garver, a student at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, writes in The Daily Caller.

“It is not the government’s job to dictate to individuals how they must live. The Constitution was designed to protect individual liberty. My Uncle Rick cannot fathom a society in which people cooperate and work with each other freely,” according to Garver, who endorsed Paul in an article published today.

“When Republicans were spending so much money under President Bush, my uncle was right there along with them as a senator. The reason we have so much debt is not only because of Democrats, but also because of big-spending Republicans like my Uncle Rick.”

Garver said he was attracted to Paul because of the inability of “status quo politicians” to recognize the importance of individual liberties.

“Unlike my uncle, he does not believe that the American people are incapable of forming decisions. He believes that an individual is more powerful than any group [a notion our founding fathers also believed in],” Garver explained to The Daily Caller, noting that he also agrees with Paul’s stance on foreign policy.

“He is the only candidate willing to bring our troops home, not only from the Middle East, but from around the world,” Garver adds.
He ended the article by saying that Paul seems to be the only candidate who wants to win for reasons other than simply winning an election.

“This year, I’ll vote for an honest change in our government. I’ll vote for real hope. I’ll vote for a real leader. This year, I will vote for Ron Paul,” declared Garver, who loves his uncle, according to The Daily Caller.

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/S...1/03/id/422920

Palin: GOP better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters

Posted by The Right Scoop
3, 2012 in Politics | 510 Comments

Sarah Palin gave her analysis of the Iowa caucuses tonight, refusing to give any single candidate anything close to an endorsement. She also noted rather passionately though, that the GOP had better not marginalize Ron Paul and his supporters after tonight because their fiscal concerns are very legitimate and the GOP had better work with them.

She also noted her expectation that Bachmann will probably drop out in coming weeks, but also made sure to tell people to quit taking shots as this isn’t something personal against Bachmann, but simply her opinion.

Video at the page link http://www.therightscoop.com/palin-g...is-supporters/