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Ron Paul Update - #7

They just keep on coming! Here are some more updates on , his philosophy, campaign and other newsworthy items for those of you, like me, that can’t get enough of the only man that could give America back to real Americans.

 

 

The most visual example of Texas Rep. Ron Paul’s unusual campaign style in his bid for the Republican presidential nod flew over the Baltimore area Thursday in the form of a 200-foot-long airship adorned with the candidate’s name and a simple request: Google Ron Paul.

 

On its multi-state promotional tour, the dirigible drifted over the city displaying its gigantic “Who is Ron Paul? Google Ron Paul” and ‘Ron Paul Revolution’  banners, going into hover mode above the freeway during afternoon rush hour for maximum exposure.

Paul’s supporters who, unsatisfied with their underdog candidate’s showing in the national media and polls, created a company outside of the campaign to rent and fly the blimp, which costs $350,000 a month to operate.

 

The fickle winter weather dictates the areas where it can fly. On Friday, a planned northbound trip toward New York was scuttled when three cords that secured a massive banner broke, forcing the zeppelin back to Elizabeth City, N.C., for repairs.

 

Ron Paul Named "Person of the Year" on McLaughlin Group

John McLaughlin awarded Ron Paul "Person of the Year." "The physician-politician," McLaughlin said, "he injected the Presidential campaign with a dose of truth serum. Paul’s straight talk on Iraq, and his straight talk on the Constitution, as Buchanan pointed out, and the limits of government have made him an Internet phenomena. In fact, Paul has become an independent force in the nation’s life."

Clarence Page awarded Ron Paul "Most Charismatic."

Eleanor Clift awarded Ron Paul "Capitalist of the Year" for his Internet fundraising.

Pat Buchanan awarded Rep. Walter Jones (R-NC) "Most Original Thinker" for his resolution to prohibit war on Iran without Congressional approval. Buchanan mentioned that it was co-sponsored by Ron Paul.

 

 

Paul Shaping Up As Spoiler in GOP Race

It wasn’t long ago that Rep. Ron Paul was an anti-war asterisk in the race for the Republican presidential nomination. Then his campaign raised a record $6 million in a single day.

Now the libertarian-leaning Texas congressman is looking like a possible spoiler, with an eclectic, tech-savvy following and an astounding $18 million in donations raised in less than three months.

Other contenders who have been losing ground slowly in statewide New Hampshire surveys — former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani or former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, for example — would be hard-pressed to explain it if they wind up trailing a man who says the United States needs a more humble foreign policy in an age of terrorism.

The attention is going to an 72-year-old physician who pursued an interest in free-market economics and a career in politics.

"I want the foreign policy of our Founding Fathers. No entangling relationships," he said. That means trade with Cuba, ending penalties against Iran and — above all — getting U.S. troops out of Iraq.

Paul’s vision of the nation’s economic future is not pretty. "When empires go too far their currencies are ruined because all wars are fought through inflation," he said. "That means the trillion-dollar operation that we have (overseas) is coming to an end. I want to bring it to an end gracefully, not wait for a dollar collapse."

While Paul says his critics sometimes accuse him of being a good candidate for the 19th century, his campaign appears to be aided to an unusual degree by the energy and enthusiasm of supporters skilled at using the Internet to their own advantage.

Rooting for Ron Paul

Ron Paul makes a pretty odd sort of 21st-century JFK. He’s a slight-built, goofy-grinned 71-year-old obstetrician-gynecologist from Texas, a man old enough to have delivered milk as a teenager to Honus Wagner’s doorstep. In interviews, the congressman comes off a little like your less cuddly but more interesting grandfather. He believes the U.S. should return to a gold-backed currency, wipe out the Federal Reserve and most government agencies, pull out of NATO, and eliminate federal income taxes. At live events, he projects extraordinary charisma. When he starts talking in his bedside-manner voice about the harm done by the blind, senseless War on Drugs, he can move a listener almost to tears.

He is a Depression-era country boy who has somehow built what may be the strongest Internet following of any 2008 candidate for the presidency He’s an "isolationist" who has thousands of expatriate and libertarian supporters in Europe. By some accounts, his following amongst active-service soldiers abroad towers over those of other Republicans.

Notwithstanding Dr. Paul’s eccentric– and, many would argue, dangerous — views on foreign policy, the GOP does occasionally needs a reminder of its roots in limited government and the . Ron Paul won’t be the next president, but the next president will have to take notice of what he has achieved by means of nothing more than patience, plain speaking and stubborn integrity.

STILL MORE TO COME FOR THE “APOSTLES OF PAUL”……

Ron Paul’s Blimp Flies the Baltimore Skies to Tout the ‘Revolution’


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