Posted on 09/16/2007 8:53:29 AM PDT by NapkinUser
When Americans evaluate today's political landscape, most feel something between impotence and disapproval. So, while citizens shake their heads or shrug at the mainstream media's “top tier” presidential candidates, it is extraordinary how many are becoming overjoyed about one lesser covered candidate.
Tens-of-thousands have joined the appropriately named Ron Paul Revolution, joining Meetup.com groups, putting up signs, and crossing states to attend rallies. Congressman Ron Paul's genuine message and untarnished record of promoting individual liberty for everyone, a free-market economy of wealth and abundance, and a foreign policy of non-intervention, peace and free trade, has attracted vast support from diverse individuals. Inspired libertarians, Democrats, independents, and previous nonvoters have registered Republican so they can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.
For those who watch mostly mainstream media sources, Paul is one of the most “searched” humans in cyberspace, has won several straw polls, has been the subject of dozens of blogs, and has an amazing number of entertaining, amateur Youtube.com videos promoting him.
Ron Paul, a medical doctor, worked as a flight surgeon for the U.S. Air Force before becoming an obstetrician. As a 10-term congressman, he has consistently promoted individual rights and kept his oath to defend our Constitution. In 1988, he was the Libertarian Party's nominee for president. As a supporter of Dr. Paul's for more than a decade, I enjoy watching people first learn about this great statesman and appreciate the universal benefits of liberty.
So just what is it that many of us think Ron Paul gets? Why do we want a president who does not want to run our lives nor our economy? How can we make our lives on this planet more peaceful, fairer, greener, and more prosperous? Let me discuss (too) briefly a few important, and recently highlighted, issues.
Our foreign policies have gone well beyond matters of defense. Regardless of whether our intervention in the affairs of other countries is altruistic or self-interest, it is a negative for everyone. Not only do we not have the right, we have created enemies who are now aggressors against us, making us less safe; we have supported those who would oppress many; we have militarized areas of conflict; we have unwisely spent borrowed trillions; we have created opportunity for large-scale graft; many well-intentioned Americans and innocents have been killed or injured and otherwise have had their lives disrupted.
Military is for protection
The only appropriate use of our military is to protect Americans. It is immoral and illegal to order U.S. soldiers into battle for any other reason. If we truly want peace, to be safer, and to not drain the pockets of our children, we should redeploy our military personel back to our shores and waters and trade freely with all nations.
Consumers have enjoyed the benefits of lower prices and better quality in products and services offered by the least regulated industries. Unfortunately, two of our most important services are the most heavily regulated. Public education has innovated little in 50 years and student performance is poorer. Patients find it more and more difficult to access affordable health care.
To provide quality health care to the greatest number of people, the costs for all levels of care need to be less prohibitive, so that near everyone can achieve a level of care to which they are comfortable. This is accomplished by deregulating the industry, re-establishing competition amongst health care insurers and providers, and allowing patients more freedom in their health choices.
Corporations benefit unfairly from favorable legislation that drives out competitors, harming the consumer. There is only one way to end this inequity and to get money and corruption out of politics. Take back the power from politicians by returning government to its constitutional limits.
There is no surer way to have the money you have earned for yourself and your family be used to support that which you do not value and given to those who have not earned it than by allowing the government to tax your income.
They say a frog thrown into a pot of boiling water will immediately jump out, while a frog in a pot of water that is slowly brought to a boil will remain to be cooked. Authoritarian usurpations of our freedoms progresses.
Laws prevent adults from making decisions for themselves every day. They decide when you must use personal protective equipment, what you cannot eat or drink, what you cannot sell and buy, how much you are to get paid for a service, who is not allowed to provide services, and what medical therapies you may choose for yourself.
Right now there are untold numbers of people being imprisoned, without due process, by the U.S government that have not been charged with a crime. The Real ID Act has been passed and soon Americans will have to present their papers to be allowed the privilege to travel domestically. Citizens are spied upon by government officials without legal warrant.
In our often well-intentioned attempt to solve more quickly the few problems suffered by any free society, we have created wider-spread, deeper-rooted and longer-standing ones by burdening ourselves with the heavy fist of government. Many of us think an effective way to advance liberty and enjoy the benefits of a free society is to elect Ron Paul president. So, order a yard sign and a bumper sticker, donate to the campaign, join a local Meetup group, register Republican for the primary, and join the Ron Paul Revolution.
Marc Guttman is an emergency doctor and vice chairman of the Libertarian Party of Connecticut. He lives in East Lyme.
If this is true...Chuck Norris is our only hope.
Paul is a candidate, but not a viable or electable candidate - threads should be banned.
How so?
Also how so?
I thought you guys claim Ron Paul is only a "nutter" and only the libs pretending to be "conservatives" will support him.
Now you claim that Ron Paul would be somehow attractive to Republicans and not democrats.
Whew! Would somebody please explain this new development?
Chuck should be ready, his contract to advertise the Total Gym is set to expire in a few weeks...
Over the 4th of July holiday I took the family to Seattle’s Greenlake which is a gathering place for the strangest of the loony left that Seattle has to offer, and Seattle is about as Left as they come. (They actually have a statue of Lenin). Anyway, who do we see having a rally? Thats right, a Ron Paul rally. Dozens and dozens of them with banners, signs, bull horns, and pamphlets they were handing out to the people walking around the lake. And the strangest thing - they were received very well by the leftist people in the park. Try holding a Rudy, Mitt, Fred, rally or any of the other GOP candidates in that same park and they would have to call in the Seattle Police to protect you from the angry mobs that would gather.
Update- I went by bus into Seattle to see the Huskies play Ohio State this last Saturday. Going through the very liberal U-District I saw plenty of Political yard signs - All Ron Paul. The type of flies that get attracted to Paul aught to warn you that he is someone to stay well clear of.
In the fall of 2000 “before” Bush became the lefts #1 enemy. At around the same time he got a 10% bump with his appearance on Oprah - I and other Bush supporters stood in front of Husky Stadium with Bush/Cheney signs. We were flipped off so many times I could not count them. One guy got in my face yelling at the top of his lungs tempting me to throw a punch.
Sorry, as long as he's a declared presidential candidate, he's newsworthy.
threads should be banned.
Just like a liberal. Can't debate the merits of Paul's candidacy so you want him banned.
They engage in the very consipracy kookery that they accuse Paul supporters of engaging in.
No, just threads about him banned. What more can be stated about this nutcase?
Why is he considered newsworthy here?
Yes, indeed they do!
How is it that the very first ones to respond to a Ron Paul post are the bashers?
Furthermore, they don't say exactly why they think Ron Paul is a "nutter", just that he is.
I’m not sure I can drink enough Kool-Aid to get on board the RP revolution... Maybe I could just not bother voting in 2008. The outcome would be the same either way...
Yep...it's a pretty good indication of which side seems to be most enamored of him...this was a MoveOn, A.N.S.W.E.R. event, for crying out loud. And his supporters showed up for that. Yeeesh.
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