Is Ron Paul a major influence on American politics?
Blackjack
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In 2008...
Who was the one talking about the Constitution?
Who was talking about the National Debt?
Who was talking about balancing the budget?
Who was talking about the Federal Reserve and its need to be audited?
American politicians today are copying his words. Without this Founder of the Tea Party, the 2010 and 2012 elections would be very different.
Ron Paul voted AGAINST the MLK Holiday.
Ron Paul voted AGAINST awarding Rosa Parks the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Ron Paul said he would have voted AGAINST the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Paul has a 30 year history of pandering to the KKK and White Power Movement.
You can make all the LAME excuses for White Supremacist Ron Paul you want. His actions speak louder than words
-FACT: Ron Paul's presidential campaign issued a flyer that boasted about the candidate's efforts to introduce legislation that would remove challenges to the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act from the federal court system.
http://www.joemygod.blogspot....
-FACT: Ron Paul's Iowa state director is Mike Heath, a long-term Christian-right activist who formerly served as the board chairman of an SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group known as "Americans for Truth About Homosexuality."
http://thenewcivilrightsmovem...
-FACT: Ron Paul has a long history of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic comments.
http://www.tnr.com/article/po...
-FACT: As state above, Ron Paul supports the so-called "states' rights" approach to marriage, but interestingly, only for LGBT couples.
http://www.yourtango.com/2008...
-FACT: Ron Paul s...
Ron Paul voted AGAINST the MLK Holiday.
Ron Paul voted AGAINST awarding Rosa Parks the Congressional Medal of Freedom.
Ron Paul said he would have voted AGAINST the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Paul has a 30 year history of pandering to the KKK and White Power Movement.
You can make all the LAME excuses for White Supremacist Ron Paul you want. His actions speak louder than words
-FACT: Ron Paul's presidential campaign issued a flyer that boasted about the candidate's efforts to introduce legislation that would remove challenges to the anti-gay Defense of Marriage Act from the federal court system.
http://www.joemygod.blogspot....
-FACT: Ron Paul's Iowa state director is Mike Heath, a long-term Christian-right activist who formerly served as the board chairman of an SPLC-certified anti-gay hate group known as "Americans for Truth About Homosexuality."
http://thenewcivilrightsmovem...
-FACT: Ron Paul has a long history of racist, homophobic, and anti-Semitic comments.
http://www.tnr.com/article/po...
-FACT: As state above, Ron Paul supports the so-called "states' rights" approach to marriage, but interestingly, only for LGBT couples.
http://www.yourtango.com/2008...
-FACT: Ron Paul said, "If I were in Congress in 1996, I would have voted for the Defense of Marriage Act, which used Congress' constitutional authority to define what official state documents other states have to recognize under the Full Faith and Credit Clause, to ensure that no state would be forced to recognize a same-sex marriage license issued in another state."
http://www.thepoliticalguide....
-FACT: Ron Paul opposes the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA), which would prohibit discrimination against employees on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity by civilian, nonreligious employers.
http://www.salon.com/2007/09/...
National Organization for Marriage’s 2010 financial records raise questions
http://washingtonindependent....
the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a tax-exempt nonprofit trying to thwart the legalization of same-sex marriage throughout the U.S., reported the highest individual donations it has received since its inception in 2007,
He has an extraordinarily broad appeal. He predicted and tried to fix the housing and credit bubbles, he is pro-life, anti-war, pro-legalization, anti-bailout, pro-tax cut, pro-spending cut, pro-civil liberties, and a strict constitutionalist. What more? These are not only his positions, but he has a 30 year record that can actually back them up. Find me one other candidate for the presidency in the last 30 years that can actually back up his policy claims. You can't.
Don't listen to BS about Ron Paul not being electable. The mainstream media is in bed with the government and the wall street bankers. Ron Paul is ignored because he is the only real threat to the status quo.
What is unelectable about a candidate who did not support widely criticized war, did not support the unpopular bailouts and stimulus, and has never voted for an unbalanced budget?
Might I add that in 2002 Ron Paul gave a speech on the house floor laying out the imminent credit crisis. He knew that the housing bubble would burst. He knew that the Federal Reserve over-extended credit. Only Ron Paul tried to stop it.
Nobody. Listened.
No because he's not an establishment hand picked, big government joke like the two vying for the presidency.
Yeah because he is the voice for the liberty movement, a movement that will get stronger as people realize government intrusion is a bad thing. He has been a lonely but strong voice for years. When being a libertarian was unpopular, he stuck to his beliefs. And right now we as a movement are beginning to see the rewards of his persistence. It may not happen in 2012, but within the next decade the liberty movement will be strong enough to catapult and liberty-minded person into the WH. And when that time comes Ron Paul's influence will be felt more than it is felt now.
Also in current times he's brought issues to the table, that otherwise wouldn't be there. For example the conversation about the federal reserve.
and,
I appreciate how he can often 'spell it out' and yet does so intelligently. Not condescending, not 'baffle-gab'. Just the straight goods.
So yeah, definitely a lot of credit due. I think he is a bit of a nut. I agree with a lot he says. I disagree with others. But I do respect him. And hey.. as annoying as his RP-Truthers are - AT LEAST you can say he did get them active, voting, participating. That is a good thing eventually, we hope.
The nation is sunk and I hope everyone enjoys the ride.
If you can't get your own to take you seriously, how can you expect America to?
total voting population in a national election. Hardly the thing that will wrest the Republican
Party from the hands of corporatism and Wall Street's billionaires. Recall Bob Dole, Ross Perot, Sarah Palin, Dan Quayle, and Nelson Rockefeller? No? Well, there is the lesson to be learned.
Ron Paul compared dropping out of the race now to walking off the track in the third lap of a mile race. "Yes, you run to win," Paul said. ..."You don't quit because you happen to be behind. You want to see how you do," ..."And who knows, maybe somebody will stumble. You can't ever tell."
Most ADD sheople want a sound bite ridden beauty contest and they simply don't want to hear about or just flat out don't get Ron Paul's platform of limited government, free markets, the elimination of the Federal Reserve and a return to the gold standard. However, Ron Paul is very influential among young college students, and thinking liberty lovers in this country, who see the major party establishment as crony colluders in the politically collective demise of their liberties and wealth.
Ron Paul is leading the charge to change the nature of the political debate and that in itself is a win win for our nation.