Posts Tagged ‘Ron Paul’
Once again the neoconservative trolls over at Hotair.com have revealed themselves to be true political hacks. Some of you may remember a few days ago when in a Financial Services meeting, Ron Paul simply asked Ben Bernanke to respond to allegations relating to Iraq and even Watergate. Paul was simply using this as an example of the lack of transparency.
Bernanke responded in such a manner which suggested Ron Paul was the clueless one, but in reality the opposite is true. Bernanke was the one completely un-aware and as such now even Barney Frank has demanded answers from the Fed on this issue. Here is my video on this below;
I’m seeing this a lot lately. Ron Paul says something that the mainstream is simply unprepared for. They’re not sure how to react, but often times they overreact negatively just as we saw with this story. After Ron Paul asked Bernanke this question, there were several blog posts about how stupid and BIZZARRE this question was.
But it’s obvious who’s side those people are on. These people would rather attack Ron Paul because they know that the Fed gives them the unlimited credit card to prosecute their wars and promise their welfare.
Rush Limbaugh critical of Ron Paul’s CPAC victory
Haha.
Ron Paul’s goal as a politician is to educate the people about ways to reduce (consistently) the size and power of the Federal government and to 
alert everyone when we are making mistakes and allowing government to grow – no matter what the issue is.
Rush Limbaugh on the other hand, seeks to empower the Republican party and then to promote some principles of freedom. However, when the principles of limited government are in conflict with his Republican Party’s actions does he seek to stand on principles or party? Party.
Rush Limbaugh honestly thinks that voting for the GOP over a democrat is more important than principles.
Even after the economic Armageddon of 2008 and the warfare and welfare state that the GOP has helped create – they still think party loyalty is more important than principled conservatism.
So I don’t take Limbaugh too seriously.
By the Fat Libertarian: That’s the question of the year in my opinion. As someone who’s been following congressman Ron Paul for JUST 2+ years, I find it amazing how far he’s come. Just as he said in his speech, he used to be laughed at but now he routinely gets requests from the cable news networks for appearances. Why? He’s smart, articulate, non-partisan, unique and gives them a nice ratings boost. And when I say unique, I mean it. It wasn’t that long ago that he was mired in complete political purgatory. Even then Ron Paul always polled well amongst those who’d heard him speak. I believe that says a lot about not only his message but his current success.
Ron Paul has a message that is certainly not typical or what is thought to be mainstream and just about every journalist writing about this CPAC win has brought this up. They give you what they consider to be the truth – Ron Paul isn’t going to be President. They’ll then say he’s fringe and “stands no chance”.
But I think it stands to reason that if those who’d heard him speak in 2007 were so impressed, now that a majority of Americans have heard him speak does it not stand to reason that he’s starting to convince a large majority of Americans?
8 years of Bush and just 1 year of Obama have simultaneously worked to reduce the American peoples faith in our entire political system. And the question becomes, why? Ron Paul not only attempts to answer the why, but he’s been correct in the past in warning us of government folly. Sure his answers go against established and sacred cows of American politics but those so called sacred cows arent working.
As more Americans hear Dr. Paul speak they are learning more about the Federal Reserve system and what it does. They are asking the fundamental questions about our country. Questions they’d never have thought to ask, were it not for Ron Paul. The new Tea Party movement which is polling better than either major party is a growth of the Ron Paul idealogy.
The truth is that Ron Paul isn’t yet mainstream in the press. They have not given him ordain over anything and they certainly have not given the American people permission to support him. Ron Paul would seek to end any and all bailouts to financial companies or the media. Ron Paul would seek to end our wars. Ron Paul would seek to restore our Republic, not transform it.
The mainstream progressive media does not want us to restore it. They want to keep progressing. But as we progress, the American people see the results of their progressive ideology. And they’re starting to think that perhaps what’s been mainstream has in fact been dangerous just as Ron Paul has been saying all along.
They see the continual spending. They see an economic crisis which can’t seemed be solved by anything but un-American bailouts. We’ve locked ourselves in a system which requires tyranny in order to sustain it.
Everyday they’re met with one philosophical contradiction after another. The American Republic is collapsing under the weight of progressivism. And as a result Ron Paul’s fringe ideas are starting to become mainstream, even if the elite media isn’t willing to admit it.
“The Southern Avenger” Jack Hunter interviews Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) on 1250 AM WTMA, Charleston, South Carolina, February 15, 2010. Paul discusses the Tea Party movement, GOP and neoconservative attempts to co-opt it , National Review’s Daniel Pipes suggestion that President Obama should “bomb Iran” to boost poll numbers, and the importance of addressing foreign policy when discussing spending and limited government.
I have seen several people try and explain the Tea Party movement and what is happening with it right now. I’m not sure I’ve seen one summation that actually explains the confusion. First of all, the Tea Party movement began as a libertarian/Ron Paul movement. As time went on and Obama became President, more Americans became alert to the realization that not only had we let Washington get out of control, but that Obama was going to push on the accelerator. As a result a lot of Republicans joined up with these tea party protests. In order to explain why the movement is meandering you have to understand 1 simple fact. The conservative movement in this country has a 3-way divide.
Here are the 3 different GOP/Conservative movements as I see them.
Neoconservatives (Limbaugh, Palin and President Bush)
Progressive Moderate Republicans (John McCain)
Libertarian Republicans (Ron Paul)
Now, I am a full fledged libertarian. I don’t know if the Tea Party is something I can embrace yet, because it doesn’t know what it is yet. What I do know is that it’s not for the likes of John McCain and/or Progressive Republican moderates. In my opinion it’s a cross between anti-war and pro-war neoconservatives. You talk about a volatile mix! Then you throw in social conservatives versus more libertarian social conseravatives and you have something that simply doesn’t mix.
As a libertarian I have had debates with neoconservatives that frieghten me. They’ll go to any tyrannical measure to “win the war on terror”. They’ll strip away any and all civil liberties as well. They don’t stand for freedom or limited government anymore. Rather they stand for a powerful government that must be protected to ensure that their foreign policy can survive, to hell with the people.
I don’t know where this movement will go, but what I do know is that Ron Paul is still a registered Republican. So is Rand Paul, Peter Schiff, Debra Medina and more.. I see the potential for Ron Paul and his beliefs to slowly take the GOP over from within and pushing out the pro-war neoconservatives, perhaps to the Tea Party where they can finally be rid of the moderates. I could be completely wrong but it’s an ironic outcome that seems possible when you consider that these three ideologies are so diametrically opposed.
Nothing better illustrates this division than the RNC of 2009. The RNC invites progressive Joe Lieberman to speak and gets a big time slot to do so, but Ron Paul, the most CONSERVATIVE MEMBER OF CONGRESS is essentially BLOCKED from even entering.
Again, I’m not sure where this is going. But it’s gonna be fun to watch. And as we hit our upcoming economic Armageddon which we won’t be able to PRINT OUR WAY OUT OF, Ron Paul is going to start to look more and more like a prophet and his “extreme” idealology won’t look so extreme after we reach 30% unemployment and we have a dollar collapse. Only time will tell.
Ron Paul talks with Dylan Ratigan. Ron Paul relaxes people because he’s willing to tell it like it is, even if it hurts his own party. This has (in my opinion) helped make him more popular.