[djsherin]

Ron Paul Ping

[GoldStandard]

H.R. 1207, which is Paul's bill to audit the Federal Reserve, now has 129 cosponsors; 111 of whom are republicans.

That is progress.

[fishtank]

The twerp Tom Udall was asked a question about the gold standard.

He started his reply by saying “that sounds like a Ron Paul type of question”, as if that should disqualify the idea.

[logician2u]

“There’s a growing recognition that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and morally bankrupt,” explained Bovard. “Most of these Republican ‘rebranding’ efforts amount to a group of overpaid consultants getting detached from reality, but I’m glad that Paul is putting together these meetings. I hope the battle of ideas is changing.”

Boy, has he got that right.

What a pleasant surprise to learn that a few of the Republicans in Congress are finally coming around to learn something about free-market economics. Too bad it takes a depression to motivate them, though.

[GBA]

In years past, with the memory of 9/11 fresh and strong, I dismissed Ron Paul on the basis of his foreign policy alone, even though I find his Constitutional approach much more compelling and was especially interested by his predictions about the economic melt down that proved to be very accurate.

Now, I am much more open to those who remind us to "beware of foreign entanglements." I wonder how much better off we'd be as a country if we had more Ron Paul philosophy and less Bush and mccain philosophy in our state and federal governments.

[djsherin]

This is an encouraging article. I feel that this is what Paul does best, and that is to encourage and perk interest in the Constitution and economics. A lot of people now take an interest in these subjects because of Paul’s campaign.

I don’t entirely agree with his foreign policy, but I’d take Paul over Obama or McCain any day of the week.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

But, is Rep. Ron Paul’s nuttiness also winning GOP converts?

[A. Patriot]

Now since the AGE of OBAMA, we have seen the “craziness” of Ron Paul isn’t so crazy after all.

[bamahead]

"I’ll admit it,” said Thomas Woods. “I was dead wrong in my first reaction when I heard Ron talking about the Fed on the campaign trail. I said, ‘This is too complicated for most Americans. This isn’t going to galvanize people.’ I was wrong!"



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[ken21]

>There’s a growing recognition that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt and morally bankrupt.<

yes.

[NCBraveheart]

I admit that at first blush I wrote RP off as an Alex Jones, 9-11 truther nutbag. Then I started to pay attention and realized that he is the ONLY member of congress talking about the Constitution who understands it and MEANS WHAT HE SAYS! I am really sick and tired of the mainstream, vote for the R not the man GOP members who constantly bash RP and those who support him. Those same nitwits thought John (Capt Queeg) McCain was a conservative. Some days I really think RP could have beat Commissar Obama. I want to run for congress just to get to go to one of these lunches. Rock on Ron!

[Swing_Thought]

This is encouraging news!

The best thing GOP candidates can do is become economically literate enough to be able to articulate to voters why the central bank has to go so that we can return to sound money. The case desperately needs to be made that capitalism hasn’t failed, centrally planned monetary policy has failed.

The Fed’s perpetual inflation fuels the creation of bubbles, which eventually must burst, usually (as was the case recently with real estate) causing systemic economic chaos. Not to mention that it’s the Fed’s ability to create money out of thin air that has enabled the out of control growth of FedGov.

This is THE winning issue for the GOP, and the path back to a constitutional Republic, but only if they understand it well enough to articulate it and can defend it against the mainstream.

It’s a high mountain to climb, but it’s encouraging that they seem to be starting the journey.

[mysterio]

Had they followed him all along, they probably wouldn’t be out of power and bordering on extinction.

[B Knotts]

It’s good to see these economic issues finally breaking through.

As conservatives, we know that big government doesn’t work. So, why do so many conservatives still believe that big government can successfully run the economy through monetary policy?

[djsherin]

Ping

[dcwusmc]

VERY good post. Thanks for putting it up here. In the latest spate of discouraging news (Kissinger telling Russia’s leadership that we’ll be disarmed by September and ready to join the New World Order), this is a shot of tonic.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Just saw this clown questioning Bernanke about making the Fed more transparent. Ben said he'd be more than willing to give the Congress more information on the Fed balance sheet, lending programs etc. Kinda like what Ron wants in his audit bill.

Then Ben said, of course we can't mess with the Fed's independence in regards to monetary policy. Ron said, well of course that's the only thing that matters. What an assclown. Ron that is. LOL!

[M203M4]

The Giuliani/McCain/Arnold/Bush crowd shouldn’t worry. These GOP political flirtations with sanity are temporary, only occurring when the GOP is out of power. As soon as the balance of power shifts parties, those in the GOP who are still against big-government will be again completely shunned or denigrated.

[SuziQ]

OK, I might have to adjust my opinion of Ron Paul. I’ll pay more attention to him in future.

[Antoninus]

I'm fine with Ron Paul on economics generally.

It's his foreign policy where he loses me.