Posted on 09/07/2007 10:40:07 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Edited on 09/07/2007 2:31:57 PM PDT by Lead Moderator. [history]
Has this been a hectic and encouraging time! First we got almost 17% in the Texas straw poll, an event set-up to represent the establishment, with very restrictive voting rules. That 17% of the Republican hierarchy would support our views, after a full day of pro-war propaganda, is good news. Then we won the more open Maryland Republican straw poll with 28%. In both cases, as usual, hard-working, well-organized volunteers made all the difference.
The Fox debate was a lot of fun as well. It's true that a few of the network people are not exactly with us on foreign or domestic policy (though one famous guy whispered to me that he is a libertarian), but the audience—with lots of students from the University of New Hampshire—was definitely fair and balanced, as their enthusiastic reaction showed.
My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of the people, a rip-off operation that takes our money and our freedom and our social peace, and gives us a mess of statist pottage in return.
The government failed miserably on 911 to protect us, despite spending trillions. So the answer was supposed to be the giant, socialist Department of Homeland Security, protecting you and me from taking our toothpaste on the airplane. I was ridiculed for saying that the airlines, which know best how to protect their property, should have been allowed to arm their pilots. But then, you and I really believe in the Second Amendment. It is not just a political slogan for us.
When I discussed the blowback that came from us intervening on the Arabian peninsula, Chris Wallace asked me if I wanted to follow the marching orders of al-Qaeda. I responded that I wanted to follow the marching orders of the Constitution, and not wage undeclared, aggressive wars that cause us only trouble. This is a mystifying to some, of course, but not to more and more Americans.
There was much talk of taxes, and a pledge not to raise rates. But as usual, I was not allowed to discuss my lifelong pledge to abolish the income tax. Just holding the line, when the government takes such vast sums through an illegitimate guilty-until-proven-innocent system, is hardly enough. We need to slash taxes and spending if we are to have a future of prosperity for ourselves and our families.
After the debate, many young people gathered around the stage to discuss our ideas and ask questions about them (and to have me sign their badges). My colleagues got no such response, and after a few moments, "security" ordered me off the stage. Can't have any such demonstration of interest in liberty.
But the young are with us, and so are Americans of every stripe. Even party officials. When one of my opponent said it was OK to lose elections through supporting the Iraq war, that set party people's teeth on edge, and rightly so. The Republican party is shrinking. We need new people. It's either our ideas or President Hillary, and more and more people recognize it.
But the media, and everyone else, will be looking at fundraising totals at the end of this month. They'll judge us by how we do. And we need help to wage what we hope will be a full-scale, 50-state campaign. Please help me head into the next quarter fully armed to do battle for freedom, peace and prosperity. Make your most generous contribution https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/. This Revolution is on the move, but it very much needs your support.
Sincerely,
Ron
What say ye?
ROFL - good grief, no!
The troops here either think he's a big, flapping-winged moonbat or they say "who?"
This whole troops being behind Ron Paul thing is just something the moonbats made up and touted around for a while in a desperate attempt to make RP look like a serious candidate.
The general concensus among the troops seems to be Fred Thompson or Duncan Hunter.
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Wow. Spoken like a liberal.
As to “overwhelming support” and “of the military with their dollars” or whatever, that is absolute Bullshit and has been disproved about as many times as there have been Paul threads.
When you figure that most of the members of the military/industrial complex are going to support a candidate who wants to continue putting money in their pockets, that’s not surprising. I’m talking about those who are actually having to fight the battles and those folks seem to like Ron Paul.
I forgot you were in the soup...
Hahahaha, best proof of all!
We have one right here...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1892669/posts?page=242#242
GEEZ!!! You get it even if you refuse to GET IT! We shouldn't be allying with other nations and up until well after WWII the American people understood it. Why the heck do you think the U.S. didn't enter the WWII until after Pearl Harbor? It was because people here understood that what happened in Europe wasn't any of our business even though it was affecting our trade with those that were considered 'friendly' nations.
Or like one of those really bad Christmas family newsletters some people include with their Christmas cards.
(I sent out a really sick parody of those to all of my friends one Christmas season.)
If I deranged then so are a goodly number of non-coms currently serving in Iraq. I have several friends both in the Army and the Guard who are currently stationed there and they were the ones who sent me the figures about the support for Ron Paul. I was honestly surprised because I didn't figure that many 'lifers' would support a non-war candidate.
You are out of your blinking mind.
Eh I like Ron but Duncan Hunter is my main choice, personally the reason I would say is the threads are becoming more and more vicious so they would prefer to just lurk and not post. And who could blame them? Look at any paul thread and witness the spirit of DU, senseless name calling, insults slung out incessantly. There are a few paul detractors that can and do present with substance and refrain from insults but they are far and few in between.
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LOL! My brother sent one, about six years ago. It was awful. :)
IT IS NOT 1940 ANYMORE!!!!
THE ENEMY CAN ATTACK WITH OUT WARNING ANYWHERE!!!
Missiles can be launched from anywhere...
We have to protect more than just our people, we have to protect our economic interests as well. We are much too far along to lose resources from outside our country.
Damn...
Ron Paul wrote the Constitution. Didn’t you know?
How much do you want to bet that "several" really means "one?" ;-)
LOL!
You wouldn't happen to have a brochure for a bridge in Brooklyn, would you?
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