No. I'm voting for him anyway.
Of course the reality is he won't get the republican nomination, will you be taking the appropriate measures to be sure a write in vote for ron paul gets counted in your election area?
I highly doubt Paul will emerge the Republican nominee. I expect he'll eventually run as an independent.
Regarding my Lincoln comments, well, mea culpa. I conveniently forgot some of his actions, taken in desperation to preserve the Union. As most desperate acts they were indefensible. If he had lived perhaps he would have had to answer for them, and my image of him might not have been so rosy. I stand behind my assertion that his was a superior mind, though.
While I'm on the subject of Lincoln, I'd point out an unfortunate fact: any government, including ours, will simply ignore the Constitution when the inconvenience of law threatens its existence. Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus is but one reprehensible example. Acts of war not authorized by Congress are another that have become commonplace, and as unjust. I don't see any of the Democrat or Republican front runners take a position against such illegal acts. Ron Paul has, and his voting record shows he would continue to do so.
Congress is bleeding us to death. This hasn't been much of a problem in the few recent decades they've been doing it, but now it's only a matter of time before it seriously starts to affect you and me. The effects may not be immediately obvious, but $100 oil is a symptom of a cancer that must be excised for the US to survive. The cancer is runaway inflation that threatens our sovereignty. Ron Paul asked Fed chairman Ben Bernanke about this today, which I heard broadcast live on the radio. Bernanke's comments indicated he hasn't a clue how to solve the problem, and fairly danced about an answer:
If somebody has their wealth in dollars and they’re going to buy consumer goods in dollars, then as a typical American … then the decline in the dollar – the only effect it has on their buying power is that it makes imported goods more expensive.
I could almost hear him squirm. Imported goods, like, everything we buy, Mr. Chairman? Bernanke attempted to dodge the question about rapidly devaluing US currency by answering it in the context of a local economy. Sorry, but as my daugher would say that's so 20th century. I'm not the only one who started to sweat --
"panic" is how Barron's described the market reaction to his comments today, before traders apparently swallowed a Prozac and decided to panic another day. Get used to it - more pain is on the way. I can't blame Bernanke though, it's not his fault that Congress is spending us into oblivion. All he can do is attempt to prop up a very sick economy, as the Fed did last week by adding another $41 billion of liquidity into the
hundreds of billions added since the credit markets collapsed. This is the largest infusion of cash since 9/11. Folks,
this is money taken directly from your pocket, your investments, your retirement, your estate. You just don't know it yet.
Ron Paul gets it. Unfortunately no one else on the Joint Economic Committee seemed to have a clue. Such luminaries as Chuck Schumer were probably trying not to yawn, while another (Loretta Sanchez?) seemed intent on placing blame. Ron Paul understands the problem, which is the first step toward solving it. There is a looming economic crisis on the horizon that no one - absolutely no one - in government would like to admit. They certainly don't want you to know. All they're hoping for is to drop the mess into someone's lap before it blows up, as it surely will, sooner or later.
Has Rudy spoken on this topic? No but I'm sure he'd sound all Presidential if he did. Romney? Checking with his lawyers. Clinton? Waiting for the poll results. Obama? Too busy getting buff for the next photo op. Fred? Hello??
Sure, Ron Paul has some wacky ideas. He wants to abolish the IRS. The US existed for about 130 years before the IRS, and it can again. He wants to get out of Iraq. Who doesn't? It can't be done overnight even if he wanted. I doubt he can accomplish half of what his stated objectives are, but so what? We're only talking about a President, not a monarch. What I expect him to do is what the job is supposed to entail: preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. I am confident Ron Paul would do exactly that. I am less confident about the others, no matter how "presidential" they appear to be.
Much as we'd like to think so, Americans are no different from any other human beings in other societies who have faced economic destruction. There's nothing genetically different about us. All of us will walk, sheep-like, to the slaughter, as your Constitution is suspended for the common good. All you have to do is stand by and let it happen. Preventing this unacceptable outcome will take action.
Someone needs to act.
Having said that I also agree there's no way RP can get elected, and here's why:
- Some people think.
- Other people think they think.
- Most people would rather die than think.
This last category is the one that decides elections.
Yes, I believe Ron Paul is the thinking man's candidate. Which is exactly why he won't get elected.
