I feel strongly enough about this, that I must talk about it. If you had told me 2 years ago I would be writing a blog, joining meetup groups for a political candidate and planning my schedule around debates, I would have laughed at you. Circumstance and a person who brings real hope and capabililty have changed the way I view things, I really think that I took the blinders off. Read on if you dare to open your eyes and vote with your heart and your head, read on if you really want serious change for America. Ron Paul's platform will shake you to your core if you can for just a moment keep an open mind.
If you are like me, you have looked at the ‘leading’ candidates that we are presented with and find yourself depressed with our options. Clinton, Obama, Guiliani, Rooney, McCain etc. Do any of them really have an answer? Or do they all look like more of the same? Most of the people I listed as well as other candidates in the field have developed their views over the course of a few years and in some cases months, with their primary goal at the moment, to win their parties primary at nearly any cost to their convictions (or in most cases, lack thereof). Some stand on the great photo opps they got during times of national crisis, while their families fall apart around them, others are brand new to the scene and have a message that is forged in the heat of what it will take to win, not a real principled belief. Some of them have already been part of national scandals and still charge forward with blinded ambition to achieve a goal...
Win at any cost.
For the first time, there is a dark horse who is quickly rising in popularity who has a real chance at winning if people mobilize for him now. This man has principles and beliefs that have been forged over a lifetime and not by what advisors and current politics tell him.
This man is Dr. Ron Paul.
Ron Paul is so completely different that his party is terrified of him.
This is an excerpt from Congressman Paul’s website: “Congressman Ron Paul is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation’s capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paul tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535” on Capitol Hill.”
We as Americans have become like the proverbial frog that is placed into a kettle of cold water. The frog will not jump out if the water temperature is slowly brought to a boil. It will stay in the pot until it is cooked. For the last 100 years the heat has been rising, it cannot continue this way forever.
The Patriot act and piles of legislation before it have slowly worked to erode our freedoms and our government which is currently acquiring new debt at the rate of over three billion dollars per day, continue to tax us more and more, yet still are going further into debt by borrowing from foreign countries. Yet, we remain complacent, even as our freedoms are slowly taken away from us. Our taxes have only one way to go, which is up. Answer this...what happens when these foreign lenders decide to call the notes due? How will we pay for them?
Ron Paul’s convictions are not new, they are simply…constitutional.
Our founding fathers came from a society that had eroded over the course of generations and set in motion a wonderful system of government that has itself been eroded by special interest groups and self-interested governmental departments that are well dug in and absolutely resistant to change. Republican or Democrat, it does not matter, these power brokers are self interested above anything else. They want to protect what they have forged with our two party system.
Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”
Congressmen Paul advocates an overhaul of the United States government. In corporate America, when a system does not work, a re-org is needed. Dr. Paul believes that the same thing is needed for America. We need to reevaluate our priorities and let the people decide what is important. It is rare that a political leader is not in the back pocket of a special interest group or industry. In this candidate we have a political leader who can make decisions based on constitutional law and the peoples edict, not a special interest group with billions of dollars.
Case in point; the Homeland Security Department. We have many bureaucratic extremely large, expensive federal intelligence and law enforcement agencies, CIA, NSA, FBI etc. All of the necessary intelligence was recorded and known prior to 9/11. Yet these huge bureaucracies failed across the board to act on that data.
The current administrations solution?
Create an even larger bureaucracy to sit on top of all of the other bureaucracies to manage them. So in essence we simply created a new outlet to spend billions of dollars on and what problem was really solved? Dr. Paul advocates eliminating all of the bureaucracy in Washington, including the IRS. How's that for lowering taxes??
Can you imagine an America where our government is perhaps one tenth the size it is now, where we do not have troops spread thin in over 120 countries, where our economy is allowed to flourish with far less government regulation and intervention, where our taxes are significantly smaller than they are now? Can you imagine an America where our solution to world problems is not military first, negotiate later? Where we use our economic capabilities to build relationships in other parts of the world rather than create racial hatred?
This is Ron Paul’s vision for America.
We owe it to this great country to change and we owe it to our children, what kind of world will they inherit if someone does not dare to stand up and say enough is enough. Things do not have to be the way they are simply because they have always been.
Ron Paul is consistently placing high and winning many of the Republican debates. The GOP is pushing the primaries up to give Ron less time to continue to build the momentum he is gathering quickly. They do not want him to have a chance to win and they can see that his popularity, his grass roots campaign is gaining the critical momentum. The last quarter he outpaced the GOP field in fund raising. In short, the dark horse now has a fighter’s chance. Let’s help ourselves, let’s help America.
I encourage you to review Ron’s site, the media section has a tremendous amount of information, including when Congressman Paul spoke in the major debates. You will learn a lot by taking an hour to learn what you can. In order to help now, you need to vote in your republican primary. It does not matter if you are a democrat, republican or an independent. Ron Paul simply wants a constitutional government. In order to get him the nomination we need registered republicans to vote in the primaries. Act now, you can switch yourparty for the general election.
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