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Ron Paul’s Right– We Need a Liberty Revolution

Nov. 16, 2012 1:38pm

Before joining the Blaze, Buck served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to the Counterterrorism Center and Office of Iraq Analysis. He […]

Before joining the Blaze, Buck served as an officer in the Central Intelligence Agency, assigned to the Counterterrorism Center and Office of Iraq Analysis. He also served as an analyst for the NYPD Intelligence Division. He has field experience in the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. Buck has a B.A. in Political Science from Amherst College. He is a native of New York City, where he currently resides.

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Ron Paul gave an expansive farewell address to Congress this week marking the end of a 30-year career that, for many, defined contemporary libertarianism. His departure from public life comes at a particularly ominous time for all who value his message of freedom and limited government as conservatives recently lost a painful electoral defeat.

That ballot box disappointment came at the hands of a president who ran on a platform of envy, dishonesty, and unabashed wealth redistribution. Dr. Paul made it clear in his farewell that never in living memory has the case for individual liberty and limited government in America been more urgent than it is today.

Paul’s speech was part eulogy for the Constitution, part battle cry to renew the fight for individual freedom and limited government that it is supposed to represent.

He implored Americans to start an intellectual awakening of America’s founding principles—a Liberty Revolution.

To his last moments on the floor of Congress, Paul articulated why such a revolution is necessary, and what it requires. America is spending its economy into collapse. Core principles of our jurisprudence, morality, and civic life are besieged or have already fallen. The progressive movement has pushed beyond mere welfare statism into outright authoritarianism. Freedom of conscience and speech are truncated; property rights and civil liberties discarded.

And rather than rally around our founding document, many conservatives have already started ideological infighting that will further weaken those standing athwart government manipulation and coercion.

Some of the loudest voices who proclaim moderation from within the ranks of the GOP fail to grasp the gravity of our Constitutional perils. Many who refused to grapple with Dr. Paul’s ideas will now find or invent ways to marginalize his message.

Others in the political establishment, including Republicans, will diminish Ron Paul’s contribution by calling him a purist. But our politics are in a desperate state of affairs if ideological consistency is considered a disqualifying characteristic.

Even more dishonest are those who attempt to portray the libertarian movement as anarchic and amoral. Dr. Paul, for one, never advocated an “anything goes” approach to governance. On the contrary, as individual liberty is the foundation of libertarian thought, that liberty cannot extend to the oppression of others. His unwavering commitment to protect the life of unborn children– defending the supreme individual liberty of life itself– was an enduring testament to the morality and humanity of his philosophy.

As Congressman Paul retires from public life, the question that now faces America is, who will work to continue the struggle for individual liberty and freedom that Dr. Paul made the goal of his life’s work?

Senator Rand Paul is a likely standard-bearer. As the healthcare leviathan known as Obamacare puts its full weight on the throat of commerce and free exchange, Senator Paul will certainly be a voice for Constitutional principle in the Senate, and he may find an increasingly receptive audience in the American people.

Indeed, Congressman Paul’s farewell address proclaimed a broader “Intellectual Awakening” is necessary—one that takes hold in the minds and hearts of all Americans. Dr. Paul recognized that the Constitution alone is no protection at all. The events of the past four years have proven that cynical Democratic politics can erode our most fundamental protections and liberties.

This is not a new phenomenon. Ronald Reagan once told us that “freedom is never more than one generation from extinction.” Unless the American people turn back the tide of authoritarian statism that has grown ferociously in recent years, Reagan’s prediction may turn into prophecy.

We cannot allow that to happen. We must abandon welfarism, statism, class warfare, and factionalism. This is Dr. Paul’s message, and this was his farewell.

Dr. Paul knew it is the belief of the American people in the genius—and righteousness—of our founding document and the freedoms it espouses that bind us together and propelled America to become the greatest country in the history of the world.

It is not too late to reclaim those principles, but we must renew the struggle today.

Let the Liberty Revolution begin.

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cigaretteandablindfold
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:46pm
The Republican party will not learn from their mistakes as they didn’t tolerate Patrick Buchanan’s ideas and Pat turned out to be correct on Iraq, Open borders, George Herbert Walker Bush, and David Rockefeller’s New World Order. They aren’t teachable and that’s why they’re on the outside looking in.

http://supplymarketing.wordpress.com/2012/11/13/the-death-of-neo-con-talk-radio/

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- dwilco77
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:46am
  Since all you Ron Paulians decided to sit this one out, you cut off your noses to spite your face. One year from now let me know, when you have lost all of your freedoms, and all of your rights, that you all made a good decision by not voting, and letting Obama win the election. Your idea that “OK, let it all fail, and then we will put it back together again”, is the most naive idea you could have had. It is too late now. See you in the bread lines.
  
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- AlcoholicMB
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 5:12am
  I’m sorry, but saying that libertarians “let Obama win by not voting for Romney” is both deceptive and asinine. The GOP made their bed when they denied duly-elected libertarian delegates from being seated at the convention. Since that snub, you neocons still expected us to go along with you? That, sir, is naive. Denying the substantial bloc of Dr Paul supporters was probably what cost you people the election. You should have embraced us, not alienated and shunned us. Now you’re blaming us. What a croc of crap. I guess living in a fantasy land isn’t conducive to one ideology.
  
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- pantokrator
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 3:08pm
  Alcoholicmb nailed it. The establishment is at fault for this one, and this “It’s everyone’s fault but the GOP. They’re our greatest hope!” No, the GOP is finished– It’s a dead party walking. It is time for a Libertarian revolution and it began with this loss. From the ashes we will rise up to restore liberty.
  
  At least I hope. But the only way you restore liberty is to stand on PRINCIPLE! Stand on the Constitution no matter what. If you are willing to set aside that for anything, you’ll fall like the rest. Join or die, as the saying goes. DWILCO77, if you won’t let the GOP establishment go, then you are what is holding us down. You are what continues to divide us, and it’s because of YOU that the progressives continue to poison our nation.
  
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- backpews
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 4:56pm
  Alchilcmb is right, though I have issues with both republican, and libertarians, Dr. Paul’s treatment was a crime against not just himself, but a crime against all free, thinking Americans. The Republicans just wanted to win, We want our republic back the RNC doesn’t seem interested.
  
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- sillyfreshness
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 7:23pm
  Ron Paul’s biggest downfall is he refused to let the “chosen people” be his handlers like all the other politicians. Had he gave in to the “chosen people” he would right now be president. He had convictions and refused to give in to his enemies of liberty (chosen people).
  
  The good news is RP started a liberty awakening. More Americans are becoming awake. Many sheeple are now realizing that that the government works for the people, not the other way around. The other good news is this whole “secessionist movement” that was just born. We need to elect candidates who run on the platform of amending the Constitution to allow secession. Then we can rebuild this country. Let the East and West Coasts be as liberal as they want and let the rest of this nation live as a constitutional republic. Right now we have the two coasts controlling the rest of the nation. There is no end in sight unless there is secession.
  
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- dwilco77
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 11:33pm
  I admit Paul had alot o great ideas about the economy, where he lost everybody was the isolationist stick your head in the sand, and the rest of the world will just leave us alone. That was just too naive for reality. Radical Isllam wants us dead, and would succeed with a weak offense on our part. Paul fell far short of a Hawk, and barely seemed as strong as a Canary. Not only would America suffer with a wimpy America, but every non-evil society would fall.
  
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- teacherbil
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:13am
  @ DWILCO77
  OMG! Still with that “isolationist” crap. He advocates NON-INTERVENTIONISM not isolationism! Why don’t you listen to the man in his own words for pete’s sake?!
  http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ron_paul/profile
  
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- ZengaPA65
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 10:48am
  Ron Paul was 100% wrong as long as Beck’s neocon Mormon buddy was running but now that it’s all over Ron Paul is right. The Blaze changes positions faster than they change their magic underwear.
  
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- Scottsman
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 12:14pm
  People like DWILLCO77 use this rediculous logic to try to blame Paul supporters.
  
  So I’ll use his/her logic… If you voted for Romney, you wasted your vote because Romney lost. You should have voted for Obama DWILLCO77.
  
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- GB__The Holy Warmonger
  Posted on November 19, 2012 at 1:14am
  Based on many of the comments here I’m sure the progressive / communists believe they have won. Almost totally devisive and blaming the other guy. There’s plenty of blame to go around.
  
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GB__The Holy Warmonger
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:52pm
Is this really The Blaze comment section? Where’s all the Paul bashing? Where was this Paul / liberty editorial support before? While I appreciate Buck Sexton writing this, the truth remains that this site is as hostile to liberty minded people as liberal news sites. And I definitely read more threats of physical violence here.

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- 702TruthSeeker
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:37pm
  I’m guilty of this myself, thinking that most Ron Paul supporters are nuts and didn’t agree with a lot of his views. Ron Paul is way ahead of the times. The more I read and the more I understand what’s happening to us, the more I realize how right he is. Unfortunately most Americans are still asleep and see anyone who points out the truth as crazy, regardless of how obvious it is. I think it is going to take a major disaster to wake them up and make them see the truth (and I’m not talking about some earthquake, hurricane, or act of terrorism..)
  
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- MadAsHeII
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:12am
  702TruthSeeker, Nice to see you out of R.E.M. sleep mode, wish more would have during the primaries. Ron Paul was the most honest candidate we have had vying for POTUS in my lifetime, even surpassing Ronald Reagan, in my view. He has always fought for Liberty and Constitutional principles in his 23 years as a U.S. Congressman. We do have a few to take his place, Thomas Massie in Kentucky, and Justin Amash and Kerry Bentivolio in Michigan, Ron Paul Tea Party candidates, who won where the Fake Republican Tea Party candidates lost. We also have Rand Paul as a Senator, who is a chip off the old block. Libertarianism, although alone, is not enough to bring back the Grand Ole Party, is making a comeback and along with Republican philosophies, will bring a balance between the two that has been lost for quite some time. There is room for celebration because of this fact, and it all can be credited to Ron Paul’s r3VOLution! Welcome aboard to what we now call the Liberty Movement.
  
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- UnitedWeStand DividedWeFall
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 2:13am
  Once you see the truth, you never go back. I remember when I first discovered Ron Paul, it was during the beginning of the 2012 nomination process. I sat down and decided I would go through all the Republican nominees and find the one I liked the most. I looked at 2 and then stopped at Ron Paul. Everything he was saying was right on the money, and I wondered why I hadn’t known about him before. All the other candidates were pretty much just saying the same thing. The hardest to figure out was his foreign policy. It took a lot of thinking and research but finally decided he was right on that too. Oh and the “Federal Reserve” which I found out, more or less, steals my money WTF! There are many other things that were brought to my attention, many things that, for the most part, the MSM would not talk about (including Ron Paul himself). I have to thank Ron Paul for finally cutting through all the crap that the propaganda machine is constantly spewing, so I could finally see things clearly!
  
  The R3volution continues…
  
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TheeAgnostic
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:47pm
Ron Paul should be selected as the next Speaker of the House.

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Advection
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:49pm
I almost feel sorry for Mr. Paul, but I shouldn’t because his eyes are open. I should feel sorry for all the blind fools who worship dictators.

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- justangry
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:17pm
  He started a long time ago and no one believed him. Now there’s millions of people across the country that hang to his every word. He’s started a movement that’s growing very quickly. His son is currently holding up the new defense bill in the Senate to restore our 6th amendment rights. The only seats picked up by the R’s last week were RP Republicans. He’s witnessed first hand that speaking to the “remnant” has done wonders for the cause of liberty. I think he’ll win out in the end. The only thing to be sad about is he probably won’t be around to see it when we do win.
  
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Kupo
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:17pm
Wait, so let me get this straight.

The Blaze was just as guilty as the mainstream media of blacking out Ron Paul, smearing him, ignoring and marginalizing him, and now that he’s gone they publish an article saying that we need the liberty movement?

smh

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- PIGSWILLNEVERFLY
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:46pm
  Buck Sexton was a lone libertarian on the Blaze panel he liked Ron Paul and many times spoke up though like many got drowned out by everyone that was calling Dr. Paul a “kook”. I was at first very positive that Dr. Paul would win, that his time had come. Then I became very angry when Dick Morris and others in the media started bashing Dr. Paul and calling him names. Dr. Paul then seemed to loose his stride and his speeches became rambling. Then I, like most people just wanted to WIN, anyone but 0. So, instead of standing on principle people went with the RNC nominee. I do not like what happened at the Convention. I do not like Reince Priebus, he’s a jerk and reminds me of a late nite talk show host. It is so very sad. Dr. Paul would have made a GREAT President and the terrible Obamacare, corrupt EPA, and the communist education system would all have been put to an end. The Constitution would have been restored. A great opportunity was lost for America. Now we will have Communism and Strife and the further mockery of God and Liberty in America. Woe is us. God Bless Ron Paul and I hope his message lives on in the hearts of many.
  
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- Trufreedom
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 10:54pm
  The Blaze and GB himself time and again stood against Paul and Libertarian ideals even though they are most in line with the Constitution than just about anything else. And now that there’s no chance of his running for another office this is published, I think I and most others remember how his ideas were marginalized in favor of fascist Republican poison. This site is nothing more than an outlet for controlled opposition, nothing here is ground breaking, except its unwavering support for other fascists like Allen West.
  
  Talk about being on the wrong side of history, you guys failed.
  
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- MadAsHeII
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 12:33am
  Look, The Blaze and Glenn Beck, no matter what you think, are establishment reporters. Look at me, I am West Coast Patriot, and after researching credible info on election fraud and trying to post it some months back, I was flagged and my posts started to not show, or they were delayed for hours, long enough to where many would not read them with the last 10 post rule on your handle [age. After the convention, I created MADASHEII and my posts started coming through quickly, even though my posts were no different than WCP. This shows that The Blaze, or someone on staff, censors the truth and tThe Blaze says the truth lives here. Shameful. Now, when I try to post as WCP, I can get a few posts through, until I am seen and again, my posts are obliterated or take hours to post. I just want others to understand that this is a controlled environment that only wants what they want to get through. Now, they are all for Liberty since there is no threat of Ron Paul? I say the threat of Ron Paul is just beginning. Our movement has never been about one man, but about an idea whose time has come, and Ron Paul was just the catalyst that woke us up. We will never go away and we will take over the GOP. I hope more wake up to the manipulation that they are under everyday and start to research in reliable avenues from this day forward. For Liberty! Not Farwell Ron Paul, but Hello Ron Paul!! We, along with Ron Paul, have a long hard road ahead.
  
  Liberty 2016!
  
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loneindividual
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:26pm
Wait for America to die. Don’t give the elites anything.

ANYTHING YOU GIVE THEM, THEY CLAIM ALL THE MORE GLORY.

They will keep on taking from Small Business until everyone in working in the BLACK MARKET (Underground Free-Market).

Anyone who has a little bit of land, learn more about agriculture and livestock. Potatoes & Chickens (eggs) are great staples and have excellent nutrition.

Have livestock? Try to keep it secret. Government won’t know unless your neighbors rat you out.

Know your neighbors, run your business, keep your guns, hold to your religion.

The only way you can rebel is by family & neighborhood…or by Church. (the way our Founding Fathers did it)

Utah is a great place….cuz whether you like them or not, Mormons have been through Hell before, and were even at War with the Federal Government at one time. Come to the West if you want to be Free. Did I mention that they live in the MOUNTAINS? You Patriots know the advantage of that. :)

Now Revolution is bound to fail & Civil War is self-defeating…but you are accountable unto God moreso than governemnt.

Guilty before God, Innocent before Government. Government is the most Guilty. God is the most Innocent.

So if you belong to a church or not…you are still bound to Eternal Principles all the same.

To the Fiercest Battle & The Deepest Grave! To Fight for my Freedom no more a Slave!

Give me Liberty or Give me Death!

For Death is Truth & only God can Conquer!

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critterbait
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:55pm
What part of this is not happing ??? Frist they Rule, then they Administer, then they Exploit.
But the real question is at which point are we at NOW ???
And where have we seen this in History before ???

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AmericaMustBeFree
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:53pm
Like Glenn, Ron Paul makes statements that tell us we need to do something.. but never tell us what, oher than to stand up, vote for the right, make ourselves better.. but never anything more. Personally I am sick of writing my Senator, useless to write my Congressman who is a Democrat! How do we fight.. no not with violence.. but how do we make anyone in Washington listen.. they haven’t for years. I am sick ofit all.. its time to just sit back watch the world crumble and then when people have humbled themselves, get busy to rebuild. I don’t know what else to do, but to turn it over to God, because He is control! Tell us what to do.. except pray pray pray!

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- justangry
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:39pm
  Good question.
  
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- TheCalmOne
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 8:38pm
  God is in control? Then the situation is as God wants it, isn’t it? What’s the point in praying?
  
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- teacherbil
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:27am
  Campaign voluteer: Dr. Paul, what can I do to help your campaign?
  Ron Paul: I can’t tell you what to do. I don’t know what you’re able to do. That’s something best left for you to determine.
  
  In other words, get busy figuring out what you can do. Don’t wait for someone else to tell you.
  
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- APROUDVETERAN
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:09pm
  What we do in addition to writing our reps. and senators is to continue to petition them and VOTE !! If your rep. doesnt do what he campaigned on, vote him out!! Ditto your senator !!! And keep voting these clowns out of office until they learn to honor their own words !!
  
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countrysideflair
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:20pm
Too bad, you guys didn’t give him the time of day, when he was running for President.. Because today we’d have a President Ron Paul… instead of a man bent on destroying our country one food stamp at a time.

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- Johnny Cocheroo
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:07pm
  Yes, it would have been a very exciting time for ALL Americans.
  
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Centralsville
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:12pm
America doesn’t want liberty anymore. With liberty comes personal responsibility and risk. Our minorities and our women living off the government voted for more government. America is in freefall. Not much prosperity left. The Middle Class is being killed off by the government. We are going to look like a third world country, a few very rich people, and the poor masses.

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- MartyTr
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:10pm
  Maybe if our MEN were Godly Christian leaders the women wouldn’t turn to the gov’t.
  
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- teacherbil
  Posted on November 18, 2012 at 3:29am
  THANK you, Martyr!
  
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EnigmanDen
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:51pm
Ron Paul couldn’t BUY time on The Blaze prior to the election because everyone was whipping the Romney pony into a frenzy. Not suprisingly, that pony was lame in the starting gate and finished dead last. Now, all of a sudden, there are numerous favorable articles or commentaries about Paul’s views.

Ron Paul shares the vision of the founding fathers with regard to personal liberty and the role, or lack thereof, of government in that liberty. Too bad Americans don’t have the chops to make the hard decisions it will take to get this country back on track.

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Libertarian Anarchist
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:36pm
I’m an anarchist. I don’t see anything, at all, wrong with anarchy. As Dr. Paul said in his final address to the us congress (I don’t bother capitalizing those letters), “the Constitution failed”.

And right he is. The US Empire is an incredibly corrupt, violent and intolerant system. Dr. Paul has my respect for being the only fella who consistently tried to reform it. Lest, he failed. Reform is not possible. The only why to end this tyrannical joke called “the land of the free” is to tear it down.

For those of you sympathetic to the cause of liberty, I recommend signing the secessionist petitions if you haven’t already. Also, consider other forms of civil disobedience, joining or starting resistance movements and exporting your wealth outside of the US. And for those of you who aren’t sympathetic to cause of liberty, well, you deserve the march of fascism for which you enthusiastically clap and cheer and desire.

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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:07pm
  I am a Libertarian and I certainly know for a fact that the Constitution didn’t fail anyone and we don’t need to have any Violence.
  
  We have to expunge the Federal Reserve Private Bank and The United Nations.
  
  It is that Simple.
  
  Also end All socialist programs established since the early 1900′s.
  
  We allowed a PRIVATE BANK to control our currency. That is what killed us. Our forefather warned us.
  
  Under the Constitution you can do what ever you want (similar to your anarchist utopia),
  Until you violate the Rights of Others.
  Pretty simple, huh?
  
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- TSUNAMI_22
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:30pm
  The Constitution didn’t fail. The representatives elected to protect an defend it did…..because the people who lost their morals and common sense failed to elect the right representatives.
  
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- countrysideflair
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:32pm
  Sadly, you are probably right, nothing will change until the country collapses on itself, just as the Wiemar Republic did. We can pose to be peaceful, but when the welfare checks stop coming, our retirement is worthless, people are starving, and employment virtually non-existent… well, that is why the federal government bought 1.5 Billion Hollow Point bullets… those aren’t “target-practice type bullets, those are used for one thing and one thing only.
  
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- Libertarian Anarchist
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:01pm
  Right. I used to be a Constitutionalist Libertarian as well, since I was 16 actually. (I’m 30 now.)
  
  And, it’s not that simple. It’s very difficult. And reform’s not going to happen, ever. Even Jefferson understood the nature of government.
  
  I love the “utopia” slam. Very nice. Surely proves what sort of “libertarian” you are. Just like when a Democrat or your average fascist claims that a free society is “utopian”.
  
  I never said anything about violence. But now that you mention it, I don’t see the problem with people using armed resistance (only as a defensive measure, and last resort) against tyranny. You if you do have a problem with it, then you should burn all your founding father idolatry because, guess what, the American revolution wasn’t a peaceful one.
  
  Yes, I’m aware of Mill’s Non-agression principle. Too bad the Constitution itself violates the non-aggression principle with taxation, imminent domain and the establishment of a government. Government itself is aggression. Government is violence. Government is force. (I believe George Washington had a good quote similar to this.)
  
  Either way, the American Empire is broken, corrupt and dying. Now, you can continue to have pipe dreams of reform by supporting evil stiffs like Romney, or you can be part of the new American Resistance. Which is it gonna be?
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:15pm
  You are correct.
  
  You did not mention violence, Only resistance. Fair enough.
  Sorry about assuming you would like a anarchist utopia.
  You also made the mistake of assuming I would vote for Romney.
  
  Obama is the Socialist Bankster Minion and Romney is the Capitalist Bankster Factotum.
  
  Here is a quote from one of the ancestors of the founders of the Federal Reserve PRIVATE BANK, The IMF, The World Bank, The U.N., Shell oil, Etc.
  
  “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!“
  – Mayer Amschel Rothschild (1744-1812)
  
  “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
  – President James A. Garfield, assassinated 1881
  
  They don’t care who runs the United States Corporation.
  
  They seize portions of America every time we borrow more with interest, and then default.
  
  All of our assassinated President were opposed to a PRIVATE central Bank for America.
  
  The Globalists have been purposely dumbing-down America and have perpetuated the Socialist
  Ideology in our Schools and in the Media.
  
  All we have to do is DEMAND that our “politicians” Reinstate JFK’s E.O. #11110 to save our Country.
  JFK knew this was the answer to our liberty and the demise of the Bankster cartel.
  THAT is why he was KILLED !!!!!!
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVCIdrcS6k
  
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Im_not_crazy92
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:36pm
Bye Ron! Enjoy your retirement! And please stay retired!

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- justangry
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 7:46pm
  He just left Congress. He’ll still be involved with the Liberty Movement and that’s a wonderful thought. I can’t believe so many people think being honest defending liberty and wanting to return the power back to the people is a bad thing. So many sheep.
  
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Dscriptboy
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:41pm
I am fighting the good fight. I teach US History in college and on the first day, the first question I ask my students, all of them products of United States’ public schools:

Define the United States in a single sentence.

None of them can do it. A few stammer out a quaint reference to our form of government, but no one can define the US in a single sentence.

Can any of you here on the Blaze?

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- PhilThePill
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:02pm
  As an experienced skydiver, students are taught that when you jump out of an airplane – you are DEAD! unless you do something about it.
  
  America is dead – unless WE do something about it.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:05pm
  Define the United States In a single sentence?
  
  ”A Private Corporation seized by a Private Bank in 1933 due to a Bankruptcy.
  
  I have all the hard evidence.
  Do you ever teach these quotes to your students?
  
  “Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.”
  – President James A. Garfield, assassinated 1881
  
  “If the nation can issue a dollar bond, it can also issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good, makes the bill good, also. The difference, between the bond and the bill, is that the bond lets the money-broker collect twice the amount of the bond, and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort, provided by the Constitution, pays nobody, but those, who contribute in some useful way.”
  – Thomas Edison
  
  “Behind the ostensible (visible) government sits enthroned an “INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT”
  – Theodore Roosevelt
  
  “This [Federal Reserve Act] establishes the most gigantic trust on earth. When the President Wilson signs this bill, the INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT of the monetary power will be legalized….the worst legislative crime of the ages is perpetrated by this banking and currency bill. From now on, depressions will be scientifically created.”
  – Charles A. Lindbergh, Sr., 1913
  
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- recklessapathy
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:13pm
  We the people.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:19pm
  Here are some more quotes I never learned in my public indoctrination:
  
  “I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies”
  - Thomas Jefferson
  
  “If the American people ever allow the banks to control the issuance of their currency (instead of Congress), first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers occupied. The issuing power of money should be taken from the banks and restored to Congress and the people to whom it belongs.”
  – Thomas Jefferson
  
  “All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise not from defects in our Constitution; not from want of honour or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.”
  – President John Adams, 2nd U.S. President
  
  “I killed the bank.”
  – Written on the grave of Andrew Jackson (1767-1845)
  
  “The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this Nation is run by the international bankers.”
  – Congressman Louis T. McFadden
  
  “The real truth of the matter is that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government since the days of Andrew Jackson.”
  – FDR
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:30pm
  Here another one to share with your class:
  
  “The very word “‘secrecy’” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is a very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know.”
  – JFK
  
  Was he talking about the “INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT” ?
  
  Was he was talking about the “United States” Corporation, established in 1871 under the “District of Columbia Organic Act” ?
  
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- cpm6405
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:36pm
  Defining the United States is a good question, the question needs to followed up with, What has the United States become? I believe the United States is an experiment of a republican form of government that held the virtues of republican life, self government and the rule of law as its style of politics. These United States has become what Thomas Jefferson feared and what Hamilton wanted, a big National Government with unlimited powers.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:39pm
  Was Dwight talking about The United States Corporaton when he said “Military-Industrial Complex”?
  
  “In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together.”
  
  On Nov. 21, 1864 President Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter to Colonel William F. Elkins. He said:
  
  “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. As a result of the war, corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:54pm
  “For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.”
  
  “Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.”
  
  – John F. Kennedy, New York City, April 27, 1961
  
  Was he taking about the Military-Industrail Complex ? The U.S. Corp ? The International Banksters?
  
  Of Course the Global Banksters own the Military-Industrial Complex and the U.S. Corp.
  
  Here is a MUST SEE for your class:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYVCIdrcS6k
  
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- MSBrewer
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 4:34pm
  An experiment: Can man rule himself?
  
  My one sentence.
  
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- The-Real-Enrico
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 5:33pm
  It is was intended and is suppose to be a ” Constitutional Democratic Republic”.
  
  I don’t know anyone of my generation who can give that answer, not even my conservative state of Georgia.
  
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- michaelmoron
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 6:33pm
  Where did the Professor go ?
  
  I want to know what grade I was given. lol.
  
  I am a high school drop-out. Had I known then, What I know today, I would have never gone to school.
  
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cpm6405
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:30pm
Thank your Mr. Sexton for a positive article on a distinguished gentleman such as Mr. Paul. Labels in politics are meaningless! It is interesting that Ron Paul gets minimized by the Libertarian label yet he lived and defended all alleged conservative values; limited government, protection of all life, and personal liberties. He was a devoted husband for over 50 years, a loving father, grandfather and humanitarian, yet the alleged conservatives showed this gentlemen no respect and ridiculed him at every turn and misrepresented his political career. Why? what does it mean to be a conservative today? Conservative seems to be a term that gets tossed around so much, it lost meaning! I believed conservatism as conserving original intent of a constitutional (r)epublican form of government. Now conservatives seem to want to conserve a larger central government as long as there is a (R) before the executive in office or elected official. Congressman Paul will be sorely missed.. since labels are so important in these United States I consider myself a former conservative and will label my self a little (r)epublican and side with the likes of Jefferson.

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- WarMunger_Al
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:51pm
  Palestinians have shot down an Israeli F-16. I guess now we know who has Libya’s missing stinger anti-aircraft missiles…Curtesy of Obama.
  http://www.presstv.com/detail/2012/11/16/272691/israeli-f16-jet-shot-down-in-gaza/
  
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- drenfroe
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 1:56am
  Most of the ruling Repuboicans don’t want change as much as thye want control, same as the administration now. Romney agreed with alot of Obamas ideas. When Romney turned his back on the tea party who was what opened my eyes farther. I really don’t think there would have been much difference between the two. This is why they ridiculed Ron Paul, he would have made congress stay with our constitution and the ways of the founding fathers. I heard his address to congress not long after Perry dropped out and he was very straight forward. I think too many people were after the win and blinded by the idea of beating Obama’s administration; caught up in the stampede. I really like Rand Paul and sign his petitions whenever possible. He does carry the day on alot of issues. Hopefully more will see the way to freedom and liberty. i’m afraid if we crash it will be over because they will really tighten the reins. We can all feel them tighten everyday as is.
  
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Common Sense 24
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:27pm
Wow, too bad the Blaze and other conservative outlets took every opportunity to bash him at every turn. He would have made a great President.

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- oneshiner
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:43pm
  I liked Ron Paul a lot, but some of the ideas he came up with were more than the people could accept.
  Knowing he’d never get close to getting the primary election, I just couldn’t let myself vote for him.
  
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- Classical Liberal
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:50pm
  Oneshiner, interesting how you didn’t list a single of those ‘ideas’ of his that people could not accept.
  
  You are what is wrong with the Republican Party.
  
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Bluenoser
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:21pm
His racist past would have never landed him in the white house regardless of whether he did get through the Primary process. Part of Liberty is choice and the American people chose a president. Time to figure out how to work together to make a better America.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:30pm
  Oh spare us all the constant tripe.
  
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isobamamadd
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:18pm
There is a call to Secede , It is not the States who have decided to secede from the Govt, but the Govt has seceded to the international Bankers . They have seceded to the State of Corruption,lies ,theft,Pay to play, insider trading and become inside traitors.

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Old_Warrior
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:16pm
Classical Liberal has a valid point. Ron Paul, lamblasted and ridiculed by the media to the point of obscurity, is now getting far more good press for and after his farewell speech. The Blaze is just as guilty as the MSM when it came to covering his Presidential Campaign, when he was in the race. Articles were rare, and if they were found, were trolled hardcore in the comments section. Which was a sad thing, because most of the trolls were believing the MSM labels and spreading the name calling, instead of actually discussing his talking points. Name calling and insults is a Progressive tactic that seems to work quite well.

I’m sorry, but this feels like a funeral speech. You know, talk good about him now his political career is dead. To be honest, that political career was all but assassinated by the MSM, to the complete joy of all Progressive Republicans and Democrats alike.

We deserve the America we’re being afflicted with right now, if so many can be so candidly swayed by sleight of hand, insulting phrases and blowing the tallking points way out of proportion.

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libertarian34
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:13pm
http://www.infowars.com/ron-paul-gives-farewell-speech-we-have-reached-the-point-of-no-return/

We are past the point of no return… There are too many Americans that want government involvement in their lives. The liberty movement was too little too late.

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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:36pm
  Liberty is not a “movement”, it’s a way of life that an individual has to come to and choose himself. The contradiction of “movement” and “liberty” are irreconcilable I’m afraid. If you get a collective chanting about “liberty”, chances are you’re not going to see liberty.
  
  Liberty is you, as a free man or woman, making choices in your life based on reason and without regard to statists telling you how to live. It’s striking out on your own and finding your own path in life. It’s fighting with others if need be for a common cause, but realizing that ultimately you’ll part ways and still have to walk your own paths as individuals.
  
  Liberty is yours to take, but you have to stop looking for it in groups. The Founders didn’t say “We’re all about Liberty, let us be a movement!”, rather they drafted a Constitution that said “Here are the rights we recognize from God, here’s the agreement we have to respect each others rights, now go your own way and good luck”. This isn’t a community thing, it’s an individual thing. I’m happy to help spread the word, but ultimately it’s up to each one of us to understand liberty and accept it on an individual basis. A culture change if you will, has to occur before we get to “movements’. That time is not now. Go out and help others understand individual rights, convince them, or learn to convince them. Then live free, regardless of the chains others with to put on you.
  
  Slainte
  
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- Banter
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 3:30pm
  @Ghost
  
  Simply excellent. Thank you.
  
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- louise
  Posted on November 17, 2012 at 11:58am
  Libertarian you said, “We are past the point of no return… There are too many Americans that want government involvement in their lives. The liberty movement was too little too late”
  _______________
  Libertarian, there are more people who want a constitutionally reigned-in government. This is not the time to throw your hands up and cry in your cheerios. If you learned anything from Ron Paul, I hope you learned that to live what you preach is one, if not the best, teacher to others.
  The whole truth of “Liberty” rest on the shoulders of Christ Himself.
  “Where the Spirit of God is, there is Liberty”
  
  Is the Spirit of God in you? Is the Spirit of God found in America today?
  If the Spirit of God is in you, true Liberty is also in you. It does not depend on a ‘government’. It is then you will understand that you are free to be a “slave” so to speak. Slave to whom or to what? You will be able to say that you are free to be a co-labourer in Christ.
  
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LibertyMindedAboveAllElse
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:09pm
Now you support the constitution after you decided to surrender and support a moderate for the Republican Party?

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circleDwagons
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:08pm
Comedy on the Blaze. Beck, Rush, and hannity all called Dr. Paul kooky. Thanks for looking out for the Constitution and Liberty.

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- LetUsReason
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:23pm
  You’re right, the only people who like liberty and the Constitution are those who grovel at the feet of Dr. Paul. Everyone else is a “Neocon” or a “Rhino” or a “Moderate” or a “sellout”. I’m so tired of you people. Ron Paul had some brilliant ideas mixed in with some dangerous, and yes, “kooky” ideas, as well. I don’t discount his love of liberty, though, and you shouldn’t discount mine on account my opinion that he’s not my cup of tea.
  
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- GhostOfJefferson
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:37pm
  @LetUsReason
  
  You missed his point. It’s not that people disagreed. It’s that the outlets he notes, were in fact in full rabid attack mode of Paul, yet now they’re all cooing and peaceful. He’s noting hypocrisy, I doubt he’s saying that “freedom = Dr. Paul only!”
  
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- cykonas
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:58pm
  @LetUsReason
  I would be interested to know which of RP’s positions you consider dangerous and/or kooky. Peace.
  
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- justangry
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 9:08pm
  Yup, if you don’t believe a country that has like two sea worthy ships, no transports or logistics to project power across the ocean is an existential threat to the United States, you’re a kook. If you’re skeptical of the intelligence community that told us tails of Iraqi WMD’s, you’re tin foil hat is too tight…. Sigh
  
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repup
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:04pm
Our own government is using soviet style honey traps against another branch of our own government to keep them in line, The Chicago machine is even more dangerous than the kgb. All those missing fbi files from the clinton administration are coming home to roost.

The cold war never ended, it just moved within our own borders.

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Naps
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:03pm
YOU KNOW WHAT!!! Screw you Glenn!!! And screw Fox,Rush,Hannity,and O’Reilly. Ron Paul’s been right on a hell of alot more then just a Liberty Movement. If the GOP would of wised up for once and nominated the right guy,we wouldn’t have to worry about our freedoms being stripped away. Glenn,you are a joke. You have ridiculed Ron Paul for so long,and now that the only politician we can trust is retiring? You wanna start kissin his ass!!!! Well I ain’t buyin it. Every talking head in the media can I go to hell for all I care. Ron Paul was America as well as the GOP’s last hope. Wake Up America!!! Turn yourTV. And radio OFF.

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Classical Liberal
Posted on November 16, 2012 at 1:57pm
While I agree with your opinion that America is in desperate need of the liberty revolution, I have to ask where the hell were you and the blaze through the primaries? Heck where were you during the general election? We could have used the support and I hope Beck understands how bad he hurt his relationship with the liberty movement.

While I warmly welcome you aboard and hope the rest of the blaze joins, I can only hope that it was not to little, to late.

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- cykonas
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:26pm
  I have to ask where the hell were you and the blaze through the primaries? Heck where were you during the general election?
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  CL, please don’t forget that first and foremost The Blaze is a free enterprise, for profit entity. There is nothing wrong with that at all. As a matter of fact it’s great! But one must realize that their coverage is driven by the popular opinion of their faction.
  
  If you read the posts that dealt with Ron Paul during this past election cycle you would have seen that the overwhelming majority of the people that come here are partisan R’s who did not favor RP. They neither know of, nor care about, true Constitutional liberty. There were some notable exceptions, but they were few.
  
  My point is don’t expect to find the Liberty Revolution in any commercial venue. It must begin and end with us. How many phone calls did you make? How many door tags did you hang? The battleground isn’t in here it’s in our neighborhoods. Until we can garner sufficient support as a movement we will not be supported by anyone in any media. It is up to us to educate and recruit. And we will have to “fight” the media every step.
  
  To the credit of both Glenn Beck and The Blaze at least they did cover Ron Paul’s candidacy more than almost anywhere else. The coverage was spotty and not always favorable, but it was covered. We need to work much harder if we expect to make further inroad
  
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- Classical Liberal
  Posted on November 16, 2012 at 2:59pm
  Cykonas, while a media organization is a for profit entity, such businesses usually work to influence popular opinion and change hearts and minds. The goal is to present a piece of news and argue their point of view in hopes that others will be won over and come to agree with their point of view, even if they did not initially.
  
  So yes, the blaze would bring in people from the right more than the left, it worked to bring people over to its way of thinking which was to nominate Romney. They successfully demonized and lambasted Ron Paul, who was the greatest true challenge to a Romney presidency, in order to make him a less appealing choice to republican voters.
  
  The blaze was of course not alone as the entire establishment feared a liberty movement takeover. People in power will fight tooth and nail to maintain their power.
  
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