[Rick.Donaldson]

Pahrump is known for its legal brothels (Heidi Fleiss lives there), but most of the people in the audience looked more like ranchers than swingers. They stood five deep at the back of the room and listened politely as the candidate spoke.

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HEY! Art BELL lives there too. I bet he’s a big supporter of RP.... /snicker

[Rick.Donaldson]

Our biggest applause line? There are two ways to interpret a fact like that: Either the Ron Paul movement is more sophisticated than most journalists understand, or a lot of Paul supporters are eccentric bordering on bonkers.

I chose the latter.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

So where are the pics of this “fan club”?

[okie01]

Tucker Carlson is such a nerd.

And his subject is such a nut.

[Badeye]

‘There are two ways to interpret a fact like that: Either the Ron Paul movement is more sophisticated than most journalists understand, or a lot of Paul supporters are eccentric bordering on bonkers. ‘

Smart money is on the latter....

[CDHart]

Interesting. Thanks for posting it. When it comes to economics and individual liberty, Ron Paul gets it.

Carolyn

[Ultra Sonic 007]

A nice editorial on Ron Paul and who he is.

[traviskicks]

Paul never outshines his message, which is unchanging: Let adults make their own choices; liberty works. For a unified theory of everything, it's pretty simple. And Paul sincerely believes it. Most Republicans, of course, profess to believe it too. But only Paul has introduced a bill to legalize unpasteurized milk.

Little things like this add up.

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It is startling to see these reactions from working folks and farmers, from college students, even that time when they stopped trading on the Chicago floor and cheered when Ron Paul ripped into Bernanke over the Fed.

[ChurtleDawg]

That was a really interesting article

[Boogaloo Baby]

Thanks for the post.

That reminds me... I need to send in my campaign donation.

[Wolfie]

Ron Paul’s inisistence an adhering to the Constitution is too extreme.

[M203M4]

For Paul, the original sin in monetary policy took place in 1933, when FDR uncoupled the currency from gold. This removed limits from federal spending, allowing Congress an endless supply of money it could print at will, while leaving citizens vulnerable to the inflation that inevitably resulted.

I agree with Paul on the problem, but not on the solution. First, all currency is fiat, even a currency backed by gold. In addition, a gold Specie Standard is impossible (without grossly inflating the value of gold) because of the size of the economy, necessarily meaning that any gold standard introduced will involve some artificial correspondence open to government manipulation. Anything less than a 100% standard leaves us exactly where we are - having a government without spending constraints, simply able to debase the currency by screwing with the gold-dollar correspondence. An indirect attempt to constrain debasement will fail, because there will still exist mechanisms through which the money supply could be artificially manipulated. The constraint needs to be EXPLICIT.

A far superior solution is to explicitly constrain the growth of the money supply DIRECTLY (without introducing backing upon a single commodity) - Friedman advocated this. Fence off the processes from political forces, essentially replacing the political hacks at the fed with a computer algorithm which matches the money supply to the growth of the economy (the "demand").

We were both finishing our brownies when he mentioned they'd been baked by a supporter.

Eeek! He should have checked if the brownies were made by a truther, nazi, pedophile, terrorist, weirdo, or white supremacist!

[ejonesie22]

The title alone was worth the price of admission...

[Moose4]

Interesting article.

Now I’m having fun imagining what would happen if Hunter S. Thompson was still around and was covering Ron Paul’s campaign. Man, that’d be a treat.

}:-)4

[weegee]

“The constitutionality of a central bank is not an issue you see on many lists of voter concerns. (How many pollsters would think to ask about it? How many voters would understand the question?)”

How many questions of the constitutionality of ANY announced programs in the candidates campaign pledges come up in polls and debates?

[Tribune7]

If Paul wasn’t such a flake on the WOT, I could see myself voting for him.

[OCCASparky]

The best line:

Either the Ron Paul movement is more sophisticated than most journalists understand, or a lot of Paul supporters are eccentric bordering on bonkers.

My vote is on the latter.

[Madame Dufarge]

I'm not a big Tucker Carlson fan, but this has to be one of the most entertaining pieces I've read in a long time.

It reminds me of why, years ago, I had a real affinity for Ron Paul; I found his leave-me-alone attitude appealing.

Then 9-11 happened and my "don't screw with me" side triumphed.

[MEGoody]

Either the Ron Paul movement is more sophisticated than most journalists understand, or a lot of Paul supporters are eccentric bordering on bonkers.

It's that latter, and they aren't just bordering on bonkers, they own it.