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Quote by: christibe  An excellent response, that Dr. Paul.
He is so wonderful, and I have noticed something promising in my daily life that is evidence of Paul's 'fame'.
I am currently in Omaha, NE, a city in a state that has banned adult video stores, because it corrupts the youth, and all such things. Omaha has always been red, only some points in NE have ever been otherwise. They have a unicameral, for goodness sakes.
However, despite this somewhat clear idiocy at play, Paul in '08 bumper stickers are proudly displayed next to Bush in '04. Now, I am not a person that typically derives meaning from the number of bumper stickers per candidate statistics, however, I see it as promising for Paul.
I, a well-meaning socialist, am planning to register Republican only to vote for Paul in the primary (I'll be in MN at that point).
Paul attracts the largest base of voters from every philosophy. I love him because I hate the Iraq War, I hate the military industrial complex, I hate killing people and I hate paying money to a government that wastes it and uses it to kill people.
Conservative Bible-belt Christians like Paul, despite his 'pro-evolution' stance, because, dare I suggest it?, he makes them remember what it means to be Conservative. It means- small govt.!?!? little to no taxation?!?!? no big enough army to be waging many wars at once?!?!?!
But yes, I think he is bringing people back to their senses. And I am grateful that for once, my vote won't be wasted on the lesser of two evils. |
Those are some good reasons to get Ron Pual nominated in the primary over some of those other Republican canadates. Although he is not supportive of domestic "socialist" style programs funded by the Feds he does share the views of socialists concerning the anti-war agenda and the anti- big brother movement he seems to support is clearly in line with leftwing intellecturals. He comprehends the idea of keeping state and religion seperated. And most left-wingers feel the income taxes are too high.
I do not support the bills he wrote that became law as they do not jive with his current speechmaking. But I might vote for him in the primary because as fate has it, one of the petition collectors got me re-regestered as being a Republican. Because of one reason.
Here is my one reason to support Ron Paul. (right now Ron Paul cannot do this because Hillary is a canadate - but later on he could).
If as a President Ron Paul would get behind and praise the new book by Bill Clinton -- "Giving, how you can change the world". With Bill Clinton working in the private sector to encourge private charity for those socialistic concerns for poor people and so forth then Ron Pauls ideas of not doing that project via big government is 'workable'. A grass-roots agenda of charity and giving (free will) would eleminate the need for a government to assume such a responibility. So in effect Bill Clinton and Ron Paul would be in harmoney for an over-all change that would be effective. And although many Ron Paul fans do not like Clinton (out of habit) they would find his new book and the ideas of it compatable with their own. A more active private sector and a less active governmental sector would (could?) manifest as the new and shared idealisms of both.
So come on you R.P. people.... agree with me on this.
If he did that now, by supporting Bill Clinton's book ideas about private sector responsibility to change proverty he could even use Bill agenst Hillary's ideas for governmental programs, and that, would be his smartest move to make right now.