Posted on 07/24/2025 2:22:05 PM PDT by Angelino97
Ron Paul should have been president.
That’s how I see it at least. On everything that has come to matter the most, he has been vindicated. The wars have been a disaster and Dr. Paul knew it.
The money printing has run this country’s economy ragged and enriched its most deceitful. And Dr. Paul knew it.
Our people are spied on, pried on, cajoled, mocked, and belittled by the intelligence agencies and federal bureaucrats who throw around words such as “terror” while targeting our civil liberties. And Dr. Paul knew it.
When it wasn’t pretty, Dr. Paul would say it. At a time when war fervor was rampant in the United States, Paul implored Americans to seek a deeper understanding of the global theater.
“Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us?” Paul asked his peers during the 2007 GOP debate in South Carolina. “They attack us because we’ve been over there!”
Paul, more than any Republican of the last 50 years, gave the sharpest summation of the disastrous consequences America has faced in the postwar era as a result of blowback stemming from our misadventures in the Middle East.
At a time when most of the Republican Party was dreaming of a post-global new world order spearheaded by the American security state, Dr. Paul said they were wrong. And Dr. Paul was right.
On all of it. The really big stuff. Paul knew this country was headed in the wrong direction and that its feckless leaders were merrily carving the path. The stock market is at an all-time high. The housing market is at an all-time high. The debt is at an all-time high. Crypto, whether it’s useless or not, is at an all-time high. Gold is pumping like the dollar is toilet paper.
But Americans, when polled, list the economy, inflation, and rising prices as their deepest concerns. Americans under the age of 40 no longer see home ownership as an attainable goal. Everything has gone up except the quality of life for most Americans these last few years. Paul, a long promoter of sound money and fiscal federal spending, saw it all coming. And it’s why he almost became president.
I remember how they sabotaged him, too. I remember how they tore apart his character and anyone associated with his movement for radically resetting a bloated and failed political and economic experiment.
They called him an antisemite (of course). Anyone who questions America’s blind affinity for Israel receives a similar fate. Such are the blows. Must’ve been tough for Dr. Paul and his family, the way it went down in 2012. I know it’s been tough on America. But I’d like Dr. Paul to know, and I’m sure he does, that many of us still remember that campaign, not for its losses but for the way it transformed and elevated rote discussions on foreign policy from within the conservative movement.
When you hear people talk about America First, they’re talking about Ron Paul as much as Pat Buchanan and Donald Trump. That’s his legacy. As a dreamer. Someone who dreamed of a better America. And we dreamed it with him.
That’s exactly what I plan on telling Dr. Paul when I send a letter to the former Representative and Republican presidential candidate in celebration of his upcoming birthday.
Dr. Paul, a man whose political voice is echoed in our bravest and most sincere endeavors as a people and a nation, turns 90 on August 20. A tremendous achievement by one of our finest men. His son, Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, is asking anyone who feels so inclined to write the aging statesman. “He would enjoy hearing from you!” Paul attached a P.O. box address below his post to X on Monday: P.O. Box 1776 Lake Jackson, TX 77566.
Reaching out to Dr. Paul on his late birthday is a nice way to remind him and ourselves of what it all meant. And it did mean a lot. So, thanks again Dr. Paul. I hope it’s a fantastic birthday.
I went looking for a missing BMW. The police in one city said their cameras confirmed it wasn’t in the city during a 1 month time period. Another town had the license # and informed us when the car was in their town. It was not officially reported stolen but they had that info. That’s good but is it?
What about his open borders policy which is an official plank of a libertarian party
No thanks
Gotta win that election thingie, first.
He ran on the Libertarian ticket in 1988. Even then, he was openly anti-abortion, despite the LP's position.
But I don't recall anyone discussing immigration as an issue in 1988, which was two years after Reagan "solved" the problem with the Simpson-Mazzoli amnesty bill.
There is a grand canyon between knowing what is right and being able to do anything tangible about it. Back when President Reagan was in office, he had to make profound choices between what he knew was right and what was less important.
He ran the debt and the deficit way up, but he defeated the Soviet Union- a far more critical goal.
President Trump took on the critical, and many believed impossible goal of at least slashing some of the festering rot within the USG, and has to a great extent succeeded.
Ron Paul may have had crystal clear vision of what needed to be done, but his will forever be a journey not taken.
This is a Conservative website, NOT a Libertarian website.
You need to find the proper Libertarian website.
This is the party platform position he ran on in 1988.
1988 Libertarian Party Platform
17. IMMIGRATION
We hold that human rights should not be denied or abridged on the basis of nationality. We condemn massive roundups of Hispanic Americans and others by the federal government in its hunt for individuals not possessing required government documents. We strongly oppose all measures that would punish employers who hire undocumented workers. Such measures repress free enterprise, harass workers, and systematically discourage employers from hiring Hispanics.
Undocumented non-citizens should not be denied the fundamental freedom to labor and to move about unmolested Furthermore, immigration must not be restricted for reasons of race, religion, political creed, age, or sexual preference.
We therefore call for the elimination of all restrictions on immigration, the abolition of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Border Patrol. and a declaration of full amnesty for all people who have entered the country illegally. We oppose government welfare payments to non-citizens just as we oppose government welfare payments to all other persons.
Because we support the right of workers to cross borders without harassment, we oppose all government-mandated “temporary worker” plans. Specifically, we condemn attempts to revive the Bracero Program as government imposition of second class status on Mexican-bom workers.
We welcome all refugees to our shores and condemn the efforts of U.S. officials to create a new “Berlin Wall” which would keep them captive. We condemn the U.S. government’s policy of barring those refugees from our shores and preventing Americans from assisting their passage to help them escape tyranny or improve their economic prospects.
How has Ron Paul handled his own money and investments over the last 25 years? He is a well known gold bug but has invested in gold mining stocks. The return on them has been lower than buying physical gold or a gold ETF. So he screwed that one up.
The loony Libertarian Party has always been for legalizing pot. Some have been for legalizing all drugs. This policy has wrecked California and Colorado etc. They have been open borders. Isolationists too, yeah let the Muslims, China and Russia take over the world and work against US interests. What better way to tank the US Dollar?
But what about Pat Buchanan?
Now Barry Goldwater!!!
>>”Ron Paul opposed open borders when he ran as a Republican in 2008 and 2012.”
In other words he flip flopped when he wanted the nomination.
When asked, he specifically rejected the LP's position on abortion.
I don't know if he was ever asked about his position on immigration in 1988, but when asked in later years, he rejected open borders.
I think Paul is one of the few people who spent decades in Congress, and did not walk away with an 8 figure bank account.
Which I think says much about his honesty and integrity.
Uncle Miltie (Angelino97’s 100% anti-Semitic lie: “Settlers tend to be ultra-Orthodox Jews, armed with Uzis.”)
Jewish persecution of Christians in the Holy Land on the rise, research reveals.
The perpetrators? In most identified cases, young ultra-Orthodox Jewish men associated with religious nationalist groups were behind the assaults.
I don't believe he ever supported open borders.
There are plenty of Democrats and Republicans that ignore their parties' platforms. Why impute the LP's 1988 platform on Paul?
You already mentioned abortion, but he chose his party and it’s permanent platform.
Here he is in 1988 it matches his party platform.
— “As in our country’s first 150 years, there shouldn’t be any immigration policy at all. We should welcome everyone who wants to come here and work.”
Agreed. And there were a few things I disagree with Ron Paul on. But on the things he was right about (i.e. auditing the Fed) he was adamantly for without mealy mouthing at all. Of the things we all agreed with him on, we should have talked about him highly, and respectfully disagreed with him on the others (i.e. I don’t blame us for the Sep 11 attacks).
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