Ron Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll…Again
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas congressman Ron Paul won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Political Action Conference for the second straight year Saturday and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney finished second.
Paul got 30 percent, while Romney got 23 percent of the votes of those attending the conference in Washington. Paul is a hero to libertarians and has a fiercely loyal following.
Others were grouped far behind.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels were among those in single digits.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, two high-profile Republicans who did not attend, were also in single digits.
Many potential candidates made speeches at the conference, attended by more than 11,000 conservative leaders and activists.
The poll found the top issues for those at the conference were reducing the size of the federal government, reducing government spending and lowering taxes.
The CPAC straw poll was co-sponsored by The Washington Times.
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dirtypolitics
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:05amI don’t care who wins as long as he/she is a Conservative who doesn’t apologize for American exceptionalism, knows how to balance the budget and honors the Constitution of United States.
Beware of the one chosen by the Lame Stream Media. He/she will surely lose. Remember McCain?
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:46amRon remembers Fox’s treatment of him quite clearly.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:37amum and i am being serious here,please tell me in your own words about American exceptionalism?
Report Post »geekdean
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:05amDo you have anything intelligent to offer? Insults and rhetoric are useless against well informed individuals
Report Post »rfycom
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 9:11amDude if you’re looking for intelligence you at the wrong place.
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:32amNow we know what the straw thinks. If only they could take it to the Wizard and trade it for a brain.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:17amThat’s strange, I thought the same thing about your comment.
Report Post »Vunks
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:16amRon Paul 2012 or sink the ship.
Time to put the Neo-cons on notice. END THE FED!
Report Post »Gums
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:50amI would rather have Newt Gingrich than the kook RuPaul Good thing most republicans feel the same way. He has a obsessive following and every single one of them voted in that straw poll. His followers are insane I talk to them all the time. Most of them think 9/11 was an inside job and international terrorism is Americas fault. They’re quacks.
Report Post »Vunks
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:12amUm no most do not believe 9-11 was an inside job, some do maybe 30% but that is far from most. And perhaps you should learn about the blow back theory.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:16amObsessive…insane…quack…I’m adding that to my list of ridiculous namecalling in the face of a lack of substance.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:17amSo what? He does this every year.
This year there are going to be a variety of great people vying for the Presidency. How about letting the people decide this year? I’m sick and tired of the TV pundits from the MSM deciding for us.
Let them all run and let them all be weeded out one by one by we the people until we find the next President of the United States. One who will not bow to Saudi Kings and apologize for America. One who will celebrate it‘s exceptionalism and protect it’s interests and it’s people.
WE THE PEOPLE WILL DECIDE THIS YEAR! NOT THE MEDIA!
I, for one, have faith that the American people will make the right choice.
Our Republic depends on it.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire:
Report Post »Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:
John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:
Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:
Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York:
William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey:
Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:
Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware:
Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland:
Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia:
George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:
William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina:
Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia:
Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
donh2
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:50amIs CPAC a convention for conservatives politicians or undertakers? CPAC always draws this same large crowd of grim Paul bearers.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:57amLOL!!
Report Post »Its not the paulers fault no one else had generated enough passion in there “followers” to take time to vote! at least the paulers are motivated more than I can say for the other canidates people!
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:14amDracula Romney’s “irresistable stare” didn’t work.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:48amFiduciary. . . one who acts as trustee for another
Report Post »Principle . . . either an idea of guiding merit or a sum of money or value usually as desiganated seperate from interest,
Interest not to be confused with mere attention but as a fee for the use of Principle
Close?
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:11amI didn’t know we had a Fiduciary Branch of government. I thought it was Legislative, Judicial, and Executive.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:14amyou think paper money has value?
Report Post »they can’t create gold but when they “create” paper money it is just
like adding water to paint till it becomes worthless
the fereral reserve is not just a bank for banks, don’t you understand they “create” money out of nothing then charge interest for it the are getting rich off the back of the working man while thay make nothing but still buy all the things others produce.
money is to provide for exchange but when the money has no value of itself there is no fair exchange!
money is to provide a store for value but the fed contunually erodes the value so that a dollar is now worth 2 or 3 cents compared to when they started “helping” manage the economy!
you know the dollars you have now will be worth less tomorrow than the are today! that is because of the FED! they are a failure!
DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:24amYes I traded some paper money today for a shirt.
I dont think you PAULers know what currency is.
For some messed up reason
You idiots want the goverment to own all the gold
BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO
Report Post »GO BACK TO A GOLD STANDARD
Pawhuska
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:39amEVERY PAPER CURRENCY HAS ULTIMATELY FAILED!!
Report Post »starting with the chinese song dynasty!
study your history!
also the govmt would not have to take all the gold you could own it and trade it as coin!
It is when the government went off the gold standard they took all the gold !
again study your history!
gold holds its value and has been the standard for ;5000 years! our paper system is about to collapse after only about 100yrs! the same amount of gold that would buy a car or a nice suit in years gone by still will but the same paper dollars sure won’t! something is worng with a system that the only way to save money is to spend it! because the money wont hold its value because “they” can create all they want. If not by government bonds then by fractional reserve banking which is the real reason for the depression. because we were on a gold standard then but the banks loaned more than they could cover in gold. they were “creating” out of thin air and still do under federal reserve oversight. but every dollar created robs value from all existing dollars just the same a counterfieting does.
Randyrocker
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:08amRon Paul would decimate Obama in a clear cut debate when it comes to the United States.
Report Post »Ron Paul for 2012.
weeblewacker1
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:30amnow thats funnie!!! oh-man! get real! obama destroyed every tea-******,g.o.p.er he has commed up against.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:33am@everyone yes i do know little flat-headed ron is a texan.
Report Post »powedj
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:07amOne more thing, the last time I ran into a Ron Paul supporter, he was anti Israel and a 9/11 truther and also forgot to take his meds.
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:26amRon Paul is not Anti Israel!
Report Post »He just recognises that our Aid has become handcuffs to Israel
and that they would be free to presue their own best interests if we wern’t blackmailing them with AID !
TheBMT
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:43amlol, we have a wide range of views. God forbid we as people must believe everything the media and govt tells us. I forgot our wise overlords know best. Personally foreign aid for all countries should stop, including Israel. Doesn’t mean we just kick them off the bus, but they are adults. They can handle themselves.
2nd 9/11 truth. I don’t have the kind of evidence that would suggest that “we” or that we knew somebody was going to do it beforehand. That kind of info not even wikileaks could acquire.
But really we could say the same about every candidate with loony followers.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:21amRon Paul supporters have batwings and leathery scales and sharp teeth and…..
Give us a break with your fearmongering.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:49amSINISTA what they really FEAR is that Ron Paul will win.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:13amWhat’s wrong with truth – even that painful like 9/11.
Don’t you have doubts about it.
9/11 fits to hegelian dialectic like milk and oreo.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:28amhave you ever been to ol’kentuc? wow!! beautiful country! except for all the abandoned cars,and run down shot-gun shacks, mind-blowing poverty,but thats what ya get when you keep electing idiots!
Report Post »MFHorn3
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:04amDash,
Report Post »I am of the opinion that Ron Paul is by far the most pro capitalist candidate in either party. Is there another potential candidate I don’t know about?
DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:18amRon Paul does not know how CAPITALISM WORKS
My super Bowl so to speak
Is when the FED testifies to Congress
the biggest Idiot on the Congresional panel is RON PAUL
I have sat and watched for years
and no one that has ever sat one that panel
could ever match the idiotic things that PAUL SAYS
Now the IDIOT is in charge
God help us all
I wish Paul would take at least an eigth grade economics lesson
and stop listening to LYNDON LARAOUCHE
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:18amROTFLMFAO @ capitalism being some sort of esoteric rocket science.
We need a 10 lawyers, 50 liberal professors, and 100 paid off economists to tell us how it works.
Matter of fact, why don’t we just do what Herman Cain suggested and call the Federal Reserve and ask them directly, so they can lie to us repeatedly like they lie to Congress every 5 years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caeNXivEGEg
You know, Cain is right, we‘re too stupid and we don’t undertsand the internal controls and safeguards thatthe Fed has, so we’re just sooooo stupid.
And Like Cain says, for that reason, we don’t need to audit the Fed like Ron Paul says, because they already have internal audits and tells Congress whatever the hell IT DEEMS relevant, and that’s 5 years AFTER the damage is done.
Ron Paul 2012
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:18amSO DashRipRock, how the capitalism work?
For me it is supply and demand.
monopoly is not supply and demand.
fed is monopoly or how G. Edward Griffin set, banking cartel.
Is any way you benefit from existence of FED or you just Ron Poul heater?
Report Post »AmericanWarrior
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:58pmLooking back, the last time CPAC picked a winner was Bush in 2000 (11 years ago)… then it was 26 years ago when they picked Reagan! Why does anyone pay attention to this poll..??.. the track record is abysmal!
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:04amgood point
maybe next year Justin Beiber will win
Report Post »powedj
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:09amI believe Justin Biber is Canadian and would not be elgigable to run for president.
Report Post »AmericanWarrior
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:51pmPaul won last year & then lost miserably in the election… What makes anyone think things are going to be different this go around..??.. As in the middle of the road as McCain is, Paul was 100 miles behind “him”… Soooo… what has changed in 3 years? Jus Sayin….
Report Post »MFHorn3
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:47pmDr_Funk,
You said, “I wouldn’t want him to be commander in chief, because he doesn’t have a damn clue how the real world works outside the US.”
Who among the potential canidates do you believe has a clue how the world works outside the U.S.? And why is that important? I happen to agree with Ron Paul that our military presence around the world is no longer desirable or affordable. Wouldn’t it be far more intelligent to secure our own boarders and to focus our energy and resources on making this country a haven for freedom loving individuals rather than stick our nose in every s?%thole around the world?
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:54pmWho among the rest???
everyone who doesnt believe that the FEDERAL RESERVE
is the BOOGEY MAN
or should I just say
ANYONE WHO IS PRO CAPITALIST
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:58pmOutside the US ,how about outside of Washington DC. As I have stated before, being right doesn’t make you electable if we like it or not.
Report Post »shinnosuke
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:19amFor some reason I am unable to reply directly to the unhinged comments of DASHRIPROCK so I will do so here, above his rant immediately below. Dash, you apparently don’t understand the meaning of capitalism. Lenin, Stalin and Mao Tse Tung were all capitalists in the truest sense of the word. They simply used human beings as their capital and when they felt some human piece of equipment was no longer needed they were entirely justified (in their own minds) with throwing it away. Ron Paul, on the other hand, recognizes that capital investments should always be used to improve and enhance the human experience. He also knows that people must be able to keep the fruit of their labors to motivate them to further improve society.
As for who conservatives should support, look, we’ve had many years of Republicans who talk about smaller government, but the size of Washington has continually grown. Platitudes are worthless. Let’s elect Paul and do some real cutting so this country can get out from under the burden that threatens its very existence.
DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:54pm
Who among the rest???
everyone who doesnt believe that the FEDERAL RESERVE
is the BOOGEY MAN
or should I just say
ANYONE WHO IS PRO CAPITALIST
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:31pmWho are these people voting for Romney? I‘m sure he’s a nice fellow and all but he‘s like a robot and it seems like he’s just one long talking point.I’m not hearing anything from this guy that makes me think he has any fresh ideas .Then there is the Romneycare albatross around his neck.Is it the shallow “he’s handsome” vote by the ladies or what?
Report Post »Pawhuska
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:25pmyou may think him (ron paul) unelectable but I would vote for Him in a minuite
Report Post »If you really listen to what he says he is right
the federal reaerve is unconstitutional
Ron Paul is the only one with national recognition willing to tackle this monster
forgien policy is out of control we are bankrupt and Ron Paul is the only one
telling you that straight up!
He also votes like he talks!!
freedom is a radical Idea.
but there is no such thing a government charity!
every time they give you something they take more than they give!!
‘It s the economy stupid’ the LOVE of money is the root of all evil
the federal reaerve is making us monetary slaves! most all of the
personal Income tax collected pays for Interest on the “debt”
we must eliminate this fraud and return to real money not paper or computer digits!
we are so far from the constitional republic we were meant to be the founders
would not recognise this country!
number one problem forsaking our Christian heritage
number Two problem paper money
number three leaders who lie
RP 2O12!!
drattastic
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:39pmLets face it, just being right doesn’t get you elected.In a perfect world ,yes .In this crazy world it can be to your detriment .
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:45pmAnd you want the federal government
to take everyones gold????
Because that is the only way to go back to a
GOLD STANDARD
and gold standard is just another word for PRICE FIXING
so in order to have Price Fixing
only one party can own the gold …three guess as to who that would be
AND HERE IS ANOTHER THING
I dont understand about you PAULERS
you dont want congress to make your medical decisions
BUT YOU WANT THEM TO MAKE YOUR BANKING DECISION????
If congress is too stupid to make medical decisions
THEN THEY ARE TOO STUPID TO MAKE MONETARY POLICY
Report Post »shinnosuke
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:06amRon Paul for President and because of his age, Rand Paul for VP.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:25amThe interest free money of principle 1 noted above is referred to as ” United States Notes.” This is money put into circulation based on the sovereign power of the government. The money substitute of principle 2 noted above, that which carries a interest charge imposed by the private bank on the American people for the privilege of using it, is called ” Federal Reserve Notes.“ They are the ” money ” which you carry with you now because the Federal Reserve is the private bank which has seized control of the issuance of money in our nation and now imposes its will upon the American people – demanding collateral for their “ loan ” and receiving payment in the form of the unconstitutional income tax – for the privilege of loaning us our own money ( a process you will learn by going to the website http://www.algaoaktree.com/MoneyMenu.htm) noted above.
What is the difference between Federal Reserve Notes and United States Notes? The answer is that Federal Reserve Notes have a interest charge to them which requires a payment of that interest to the private bank that issued them. United States Notes have no interest charge. Therefore the following can be stated:
Since in 1996 approximately 40% of the United States budget went to the payment of interest on the national debt the replacement of Federal Reserve Notes by United States Notes would eliminate interest payments to the private Federal Reserve System and would save 40% of the budget.
40%
40% of the federal budget equals BILLIONS of dollars.
For, dear citizen, the Federal Reserve System has been swindling our nation of BILLIONS of dollars for YEARS – year in and year out. And I have only described to you ONE of the major ways in which you are swindled; this being via the income tax and the “ interest ” which the Federal Reserve charges. In later articles I will discuss a even greater swindle ( stealing your savings ) which the “ FED ” perpetrates.
But to sum up the problem, it is Principle 1 as noted above and planned by our founders which was to free our nation from control by corrupt forces which wanted to drain the nation for their own profit. The forgotten, ignored, and largely suppressed money history of our nation shows that many battles were fought over this issue; most prominently by Presidents Andrew Jackson, and Abraham Lincoln.
The “ Greenbacks ” which Lincoln issued in order to finance the Union victory in the Civil War were interest free money which saved the nation millions when the banking establishment of the time wanted to gouge the Union by charging 30 to 40% for any loans to the nation. In the same way the nation today can issue interest free United States Notes and save billions and billions of dollars which can be used for the true growth of the nation – building roads, hospitals, schools, energy facilities, and all of the things which our nation needs to become economically prosperous once more – rather than paying that money ( and the labor it represents ) to a parasite private bank which has seized control of the monetary and financial life of our nation and now sucks it dry as it drains our nation like a vampire upon the citizens.
For it is the inherent weakness of the Federal Reserve System, which you shall learn about at the forums and websites which we shall note, that leads to the need for 2 parents to work to support a family, the rise in prices, the devaluation of our currency, the impoverishment of our citizens and the collapse of the middle class of our nation, and many other symptoms of a decaying economy.
Yet the knowledge which you will find at and via this website is kept from the general public. Why? Because the mass majority of our media is owned and controlled by those who profit off of the actions of the private bank known as the Federal Reserve. Additionally the mass majority of our politicians, including Senator Boxer here in California, feed off of this same system and have been purchased ” lock, stock, and barrel ” by the financial forces which profit by helping the vampire Federal Reserve System. This duet of politicians and the media with the addition of their controllers comprises a significant part of ” The Matrix.”
Could politicians institute “ United States Notes ” and save the country billions of dollars in lost money each year while also totally eliminating a need for a personal income tax ( even if it was legal which it is not )? Yes, they could – but they would be out of office tomorrow if they tried to do it due to the complete control which the Money Mafia, the Federal Reserve System, and “ The Matrix ” exercises over our political system.
For the battle to stop the financial vampire of private banking control over the issuance of the nations money has been going on for many years and in the days of Lincoln’s fight against the bankers the following comments were written in the London Times which give a hint of the same magnitude of the battle which we have today :
” If that mischievous financial policy, which had its origin in the North American Republic during the late war in that country, should become indurated down to a fixture, then that Government will furnish its own money without cost. It will pay off its debts and be without a debt. It will have all the money necessary to carry on its commerce. It will become prosperous beyond precedent in the history of the civilized governments of the world. The brains and the wealth of all countries will go to North America. That government must be destroyed or it will destroy every monarchy on the globe.” ( Emphasis added ).
In Lincoln’s time the banking elite realized that interest free money, freed from the control of the parasite private banks, was a deadly and mortal threat to their existence and had to be stopped at all costs. This is why you see no discussion in the media or in academia of the issues which I have raised here. They are controlled by the vise-like grip of the banking cartel which controls our nation including you, your future, and ( especially ) the future of your children.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:13amI love you Tower7FEMACamp.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:00amGREAT POST tower7femacamp !!!
WE HAVE TO START TO TALK ABOUT FED
THANKS AGAIN
Report Post »powedj
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:25pmWhat were those kids smoking at CPAC???? Ron Paul would not stand a snowball chance in HELL of beating Obama in 2012.
Report Post »Patrick Henry II
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:49pmI think he(Paul) would beat Obama. His biggest downfall is his age but clearly the youth seems to support him; hookers too…lol…. And these anti capitalist must not be very smart if they like Paul. He is a capitalist.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:06amHis snowball is bigger than Palin’s snowball….
And Trump’s….
And Cain worked for the Fed in Kansas City and is a flip-flopper on auditing the Fed, only coming around after Ron Paul gained steam and won the chairmanship of the subcommittee on monetary policy…
Report Post »bloptop
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:15pmRon Paul is a REAL conservative….not like these corporate jingoist neo-cons like palin and gingrich. His message is simple: limit unjustified authority over civil liberties and stay out of unnecessary wars. I’m liberal and every this is where the conservative party needs to go.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:27pmCorperate Jingoist
WOW MARX COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER
YOU PAULERS ARE ANTI-CAPITALISTs
JUST ADMIT IT
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:36amlol. How are we anti-capitalist? Did you even read the book? Cuz I sure as hell didn’t get that impression after reading it.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:03amThis isn’t capitalism, this is corporate welfare/theft.
We need to get rid of the Fed and IRS, then we can get some REAL capitalism poppin off up in here.
Report Post »jdawg
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:13pmNot that this poll really means anything.
http://www.examiner.com/conservative-in-spokane/ron-paul-wins-cpac-presidential-straw-poll-for-second-year-a-row
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:05pmI disagree with some of what Ron Paul believes in especially when it comes to segregation but I do respect him. I do have great disdain for any politician who brings religion into politics.
Jefferson said is best:
The whole history of these books [the Gospels] is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute inquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.
-Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Adams, January 24, 1814
Report Post »545 vs 300,000,000+
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:24pmHoly crap something intelligent came out!
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:27pmHell was not created for man so it say’s in the book it will be a pit stop for some a refining purifying fire . I will will go with the book you can go with luck i will pray & wait for you you can tell me how it goes .Hey col west is on c- span.
Report Post »jreb50
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:17amI appreciate your attempt to bring some enlightened discussion into this arena, but you must do a little more research before you attempt to belittle the Founder’s belief in God/religion. Here is an exerpt from Mr Adams in which he so proudly states, “It is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. Religion and virtue ar the only foundations…of republicansim and of all free governments. John Adams, August 28, 1811.
Report Post »Here is a quote from Thomas Jefferson for you, “The practice of morality being necessary for the well-being of society, He (God) has taken care to impress its precepts so indelibly on our hearts that they shall not be effaced by the subtleties of our brain. We all agree in the obligation of the moral precepts of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.” September 27, 1809.
So, I believe there is a place for God/religion in our nation and in its development. If men of character like our Founder’s believed it so, and we have been in existence for 200+ years and going strong, why would any sane individual want to change it?
tower7femacamp
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:21amDASH DRIP ROT why can’t you ever make a reasonable
Report Post »and researched answer ? stfu ??? does your mom know
you are posting on line with Adults ?
maybe the Blaze should start a new policy of you
must be at least 12 to post on the Blaze.
Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:00amROTFLMAO Tower7
Rash Drip Snot is quite an annoyance.
There are 2 different hells, one for Satan and his minions (and perhaps certain kings of the Earth), and one for men. Satan’s hell is a hell that is in proportion to Satan, and man’s hell is in proportion to man. Man’s hell is a bottomless pit of the Earth, and Satan’s hell is a supermassive black hole in outerspace.
I discerned this from the Book of Enoch.
Report Post »weeblewacker1
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 11:18amAHMEN!! run ron,run! and please bring sister sarah with you!
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:00pmRon Paul won the poll because of the lunatics who support him. Most of them are students who don’t know any better.
He will never be POTUS. He is an isolationist who wants to cut off aide to Israel. Not good.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:06pmAMEN BROTHER
If I was a drinking man I would buy you a beer.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:15pmyes, we are crazy lunatics. We love Liberty!
As for Israel… some Israeli economists believe that the foreign aid to their country actually weakens their national sovereignty. Never hear what the Mass Media says about that do you? They are tired of being used as Pawns in the Middle East.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:22pmYou may love LIBERTY
but you HATE CAPITALISM
either that or
YOU DONT KNOW HOW IT WORKS
Report Post »ObliviouslyAware
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:38pm“He will never be POTUS. He is an isolationist who wants to cut off aide to Israel. Not good.” – U
Report Post »Yeah lets just keep supporting everyone even if it means our own destruction, lol, that’s “special”…
Isolationism is good BECAUSE we would still hold some kind of edge, if it were’nt for the whole keynesian economics and fractionalm reserve banking s@#$ would be sweet for the US… But NOOOooo… We gotta just fall for every guilt trip that comes along, how about this, screw em, if they start something well finish it and GO HOME!
shinnosuke
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:50pmRon Paul does not want to cut off foreign aid to Israel. Not just Israel, anyway. He wants to cut off foreign aid to all recipients which is just one of several reasons why I support him. Exactly where in the Constitution does it say my money can be spewed to dozens of despots around the world?
I volunteered in one of Paul’s election offices in 1976 and have been a fan ever since.
END THE FED. There is no purer doctrine than this.
Bring our boys home NOW from Iraq and Afghanistan. That’s the Gospel in all its glory.
These and more are the Ron Paul prescriptions our country needs to regain its strength. If you can’t see that, then you are simply a victim of the public education system and too much TV.
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:19amIn 1976 Ron Paul was still delivering babies
Report Post »DashRipRock
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:20amEND THE FED
Is the most
ANTI CAPITALIST BOOK WRITTEN
SINCE KARL MARX
Report Post »slimster
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:31amPaul is Anti corporations not anti capitalist. Corporations create a dictatorship of sorts… it is not free market trade… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwwXgPiySto here is a good video for starters.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:07amDo the math. We give more aid to the surrounding countries than we do to Israel. If we stopped it all and simply traded with them they would be better off as well as our wallets. This is coming from some one who sends his own personal money to help Israel. This is coming from some one that graduated 10 years ago and was a history major to boot. I am no know nothing 20 something student. Ron Paul is right. I will also add he predicted our current money situation over 15 years ago when others said that was crazy. Further more if he gets the republican nomination he can crush Obummer.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:56am::Howard Dean Voice::
YEARRRRGGHHH!!!!!
Ron Paul 2012!
Ron Paul is always right.
Haters will continue to hate.
Neocons will keep hating him.
That just makes them haters.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:31amwhat is the difference between socialist/big gov/spending/liberals and McCaine, Gulliani, Rammney?
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:20pm“what is the difference between socialist/big gov/spending/liberals and McCaine, Gulliani, Rammney?”
It’s not socialism when it benefits me!
Hypocrisy, mostly. “Conservatives” say they hate socialist polices but the minute it benefits them (hi Social Security/Medicare/etc) it’s a “right.”
Report Post »AmericanSoldier
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:52pmFunny, you oppose welfare for Americans but have no problem with welfare for Israelis?
Just seems too weird. I don’t like welfare, but if I‘m going to give welfare to anyone I’d rather give it to an American then a foreigner.
Report Post »tankerBigRed1
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 12:32amThought dat paul was going to really put it to the fed in this new congress-? haven’t heard a peep? fed chair doesn’t appear to be sweating ?- paul won straw poll again- where did he finish in the hawki kwaki last goround eh??
Report Post »cykonas
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 4:59amRick,
Please reexamine the statements of Rep. Paul, recent and past. He has long advocated for NONINTERVENTION, which has been a cornerstone principle of our country back to it’s earliest days. The first time I remember it being mentioned was in a George Washington quote that the US should avoid foreign entanglements. Many of our founders are on record in similar fashion.
Nonintervention is not ISOLATIONIST. Under a policy of nonintervention Paul would still encourage the free and fair trade between the US and the other countries of the world. There would still be immigration, albeit controlled as it should be, and all of the other normal relations with the countries of the world.
But, what Rep. Paul has warned against are the entanglements and treaties that hurt our country. Things like the “nation building” exercise that is going on in Afghanistan for example. There is an argument that can be made that our activities there address a real national security concern. But most non interventionists would argue that, for the most part, this is an Afghan internal affair and the US should not stick their nose in it or prop up Karzai.
The philosophy of non intervention also applies to foreign aid, especially when it’s done largely for the buying of influence to governments and regimes. The US, and many other countries, has engaged in this practice for a long time. It’s very costly, and when one really looks at the results over time they are usually not very good. Please go back 50 years or so and research the US involvement and the money spent to influence the chain of events that lead us to the Iran of the present day. We’ve spent TONS of money, probably much much more than is documented, and Iran still hates us and would blow us off the face of the Earth were they able. If you watched Rep. Paul‘s CPAC address it’s what he meant by mistaking temporary security for permanent security. His call to cut off ALL foreign aid, including aid to Israel, is why I believe some try to make him out as an anti-Semite. I think that is inaccurate as well. He advocates cutting all foreign aid.
Regardless of whether you support Rep. Paul or not it is inaccurate to call him an isolationist. Peace.
Report Post »545 vs 300,000,000+
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:56pmAfter watching CPAC I would like to see a Cain/West or a West/Cain ticket.
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:03pmAmen!
Report Post »Howard_Roark
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:12amNominating Cain and West would be fine, so long as RINOs like Romney, Huckabee, Christie, McCain, Giuliani, Frist, etc are ignored by the new Conservatives then the Tea Party movement will remain alive and well and will only grow stronger.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:50amI don’t want to see a Cain/anything ticket.
Herman Cain is a former chairman of the Federal Reserve of Kansas City.
I’ll never vote for anybody who worked for the parasitic entity that is the Federal Reserve system, and Tim Geithner shouldn’t be running our Treasury. Talk about a conflict of interest.
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:54pmI don’t get how Romney got so many votes. They do know what Romneycare is, I hope. Apparently judging people on the merit of their actions is more than they can bear.
Report Post »Robert-CA
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:16pmI would vote Cain & not Romney .
Report Post »slimster
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:26amRomney pays people to go to cpac to vote for him. well he buys tickets and gives them to supporters… Paul get loyal supporters and they are rocking it for him!
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:39amI wouldn’t put much stock in any c-pac straw pole. Besides it is way too early to make a selection or predictions.
Report Post »Howard_Roark
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:15amI’m really shocked that at CPAC a RINO like Romney could get nearly 25% of the vote. They should have sent Romney a message, and sent a message to all other RINOs, that they do not stand a chance of winning if they remain center-left on crucial issues. Romney is persona non grata in my Conservative movement.
Report Post »Peacewise
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:37amIt’s because Romney is the establishment candidate, That’s how he got second place. I would bet there are a good number of RINO’s supporting him and thus he always looks like the “frontrunner”.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:48amHe is Dracula.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 1:50pmPalin…3% – I’m loving it!
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:47pmIf he runs, I hope he wins. I don’t think Palin is going to run. I think Donald Trump IS going to run.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:57pmI like Ron and Rand Paul, I just don’t think they are Presidential material.
Report Post »AKMIIKEUS
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 10:59pmPalin, 3 %?
I love it. It looks like the Right/Republican‘s are finally getting it that Sarah Palin and Michelle Bachman are this country’s idiots.
Report Post »dr_funk
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:02pmHe can’t win. He’s a naively isolationist kook. As another commenter on here put it, he’s the crazy old uncle in the Republican attic.
I wouldn’t want him to be commander in chief, because he doesn’t have a damn clue how the real world works outside the US.
DashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:05pmCPAC Straw polls are becoming USELESS
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:19pmI like Ron and Rand Paul too but some of the things they have said seem antisemitic . Anyone who want‘s to end the fed is going to be popular the only congressional record on the fed is from the fed reserve’s begining and it list’s jp morgan ,Rockefeller Exxon ,G.M and many of the other bail out recipients are the true owners of the federal reserve.It’s a bilderberg type thing.
mcfinch
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:19pmHe definitely will win.
http://politicalbowl.com – Political Video Website
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:26pmHe could win and become President because he stands for America. But I Sarah Palin should run. She could handily defeat Obams because of her bona fides and her Tea Party posture.
Report Post »ObliviouslyAware
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:33pmRon Paul is AWESOME!!! Donald Trump is a womanizing swine, who does he think he is to be quilified, I would take a bullet for Ron Paul, he’s been at this fight for liberty for decades…
Mister President
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:34pmRon Paul would be an exceptional President. Trump said he doesn’t have a chance at winning, and I thought that to be true; however, I didn’t realize he had done so well in the straw polls.
I’d prefer Paul over anyone. Perhaps a Paul/Trump ticket?
Trump knows business. Paul knows the Constitution. Perfect alliance.
Report Post »Huckabee Gingrich 12
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:55pmOf course he’ll run, but, as The Donald astutely pointed out, he has ZERO chance of being elected. Doesn’t matter what his politics are, he’s a whiney, sniveling, little wussy, and the country ain’t gonna elect that. Luckily, the CPAC straw poll is irrelevant. Romney won it in ‘07, with Giuliani and Brownback in second and third, respectively. The next Ronaldus Magnus had better show up soon, and I’m beginning to think he may be Trump.
Report Post »cnsrvtvj
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:05amHe sure has very faithful followers. I agree with Donald Trump saying he could never win though. I like a lot of his ideas, but am not sure he’s the best choice.
http://www.donsmithshow.com – see the George Carlin on voting video
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:16amRon’s a wonderful and wonderfully consistent idealist, not an effective executive. And his isolationism IS naive.
Report Post »Trump is a faux conservative. Maybe decent at his OWN business, but terrible for the business of the US. He talks protectionism like he thinks it will actually work.
Palin knows she’s politically washed up, but is happy to be consulted on anything.
Republican Romney fear is a third bigotry, a third stubborn reflexiveness, and a third principled, but mistaken disagreement. But Coulter’s right, he’s too slick to be taken seriously a second time.
Jindal anyone?
And I WILL take Bachman at Veep. Nice call.
Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:24amSo… Not one of you can name an actual reason your against him? Because the T.V. said he was unelectable?
Does any one have a good reason not to vote for Ron Paul. Please don’t give me that idealist / real world argument. If thats it i suggest reading about economics for a change.
If your not backing Paul at this point then maybe nothing will wake you. anywho consider joining the real revolution.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:29am@Darmok: Have to agree with you…
Report Post »Kinnison
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:30amDr. Funk, he doesn’t have a clue how the real world operates inside the United States either. The man is a delusional, self-important narcissist.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:34amFunny: a guy with anarchy built into his screen name refusing delivery on a charge of idealism…
Report Post »jzs
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:41amNot sure if you caught Beck on January 23, but he predicted this would happen. Look up the video if you don’t believe me but he nailed it.
That’s not to say he his throwing his bulk behind Paul. Although he‘s been careful not to support Palin’s aspirations on air, if you do your research and check out his website you‘ll see he’s throwing the the full weight of his vast empire directly behind her. He is directly behind her. He has inserted himself in her presidential ambitions, and over and over he thrusts himself into her ambitions. His firm and upright support, his constancy, his determination to extend the full measure of his being into her warm, receptive and conservative being will ultimatily bring ecstacy to the Republican Party!
Report Post »Libertarian Infidel
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:11amPaul an isolationist?
Report Post »That’s funny you site that as a reason for him being unelectable seeing how someone once said “Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations — entangling alliances with none.” Oh who was that person…oh yes, it was Thomas Jefferson. Our Founding Fathers did not want us to get involved in the affairs of other nations.
Funny how it’s ok for you “conservatives” to pick and choose what policies of the Founders you wish to adopt, but blow a gasket when liberals do the same.
slimster
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:24amRon Paul better win or America looses…
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:30amThe Donald is right. Ron Paul doesn’t stand a chance nor does the Donald. In fact if we go with the same old tired career politicians we are screwed for sure. I think Herman Cain, Col West and Mitch Daniels show some promise.
Report Post »HappyStretchedThin
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:00amYou wanna cherry-pick Jefferson to accuse conservatives of cherry-picking? In the very same SENTENCE he made clear that this was a general statement of principle which may have limitations.
Report Post »This was made in a State of the Union speech at a time when the federal government’s main job was to steer clear of the mess England and France were making of colonies everywhere, and make new friends without ticking off the real powers of the day, keeping our collective heads low. America has largely lived up to that non-entangling (read: imperial) kind of alliances Jefferson was talking about. But you want to claim he meant no alliances at all–or commercial good, political bad. Since when has one ever not involved the other in the real world (yes, I said real world), especially where despots rule? And then there’s the small matter of new threats, faster travel, instantaneous communication, globalism–terrorists will just leave us alone if we stick our head in the sand, right? At least where the US HAS intervened, it has been in favor of a step forward in peace, prosperity, liberty and justice for all parties, including the US, which has been its main concern all along. When the US is a superpower, it must only intervene when its own interests are threatened, yes. But failure to recognize that some promotion of liberty and stability around the world, is a prerequisite to maintaining our own interests is what makes the hero of you Paulistinians unelectable.
Howard_Roark
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:02amRon Paul is the path back to sanity. He is a true conservative in the sense that he represents a return to the fundamentals of the Constitution. The federal government is bloated beyond reason. We are crushed by the financial burden and we are paralyzed by its countless laws, bureaucracies, and regulations. As a Conservative, I believe in the enumerated powers. I do not believe in constitutional interpretation or expansion. I believe in States rights and individualism. I believe federal government should be basic and limited, it should be require basic and limited funding, and it should be virtually non-existent in our daily lives. Ron Paul is my kind of Conservative.
I agree with Ron Paul on another serious matter and that is with regard the Federal Reserve. Bernanke, Geithner, Paulson, Lloyd Blankfein, William Dudley, Gary Cohn, Jamie Dimon, Kenneth Chenault, John Mack and others represent a graver threat to our freedoms, to the sovereignty of our nation, and to the viability of our republic than the combined forces of ChiComs, Russians, Islamists, and Iranians. The fractional reserve lending system is a fraudulent system designed to consolidate wealth and power into the hands of a few bankers while at the same time it devalues the currency and leads to inflation.
There is a permanent solution that will put an end to the bankers hegemony and control over our government and economy:
The solution? An immediate and total abolition of the Federal Reserve system and a return to a legal, transparent and sound monetary policy.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:03amThe Republican and the TeaParty have no one who can run and win!! Sorry – Obama 2nd term!!
Report Post »http://wp.me/sYLB7-outfoxed
Polwatcher
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 5:58amIt would be a great day if we all woke up with Ron Paul (or Rand Paul) as President but he hasn’t polled well with the general population.
Report Post »ozz
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:46amIf he wins the nomination he can beat Obummer easy, as many issues he sides with the constitution that the liberals do. He can get votes even from Dems yet in no way is a RINO. Further more he is THE ONLY HONEST POLITICIAN! Look at his voting record. It matches what he preaches. He has NEVER VOTED TO RAISE TAXES in 20 years. He walks the walk.
Report Post »Ron Paul gets my vote if I have to right it in
felina g
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:55amAnyone check out George Green ?
We need a new George Washington on a white horsie. I am looking to the horizon.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:39amWhat Dr_Funk is saying is that Ron Paul is a crazy kook for not wanting us to get involved in other countries’ civil wars and domestic issues, wants us to stop spending billions in foreign aid to prop up dictators like Mubarak, wans to stop all foreign aid, wants us to stop NATION BUILDING around the world with hundreds of military bases that cost billions, stop giving money to the IMF and World bank,
and a host of other issues that have done us great harm financially and reputationally.
The Straw Polls are all of a sudden “useless” because Ron Paul won.
He’s gonna keep winning, because despite being frozen out by mainstream media, and shunned by establishment Republicans, he still has a bigger following than all of them.
Despite winning the Straw Poll again, Fox News this morning just ran a story calling him an “unlikely candidate”.
Based on what exactly? Perhaps based on the fact he keeps winning Straw Polls? Based on the fact that he STARTED the Tea Party movement of our day? Based on the fact that Ronald Rump got booed when dissing Ron Paul? Based on the fact that he has been re-elected 11 times? Based on the fact that Ron paul polled better to beat Obama than Palin on Rasmussen?
Progressive Republicans/Progressive Democrats are scared to death of Ron Paul.
Report Post »Love Bandit Bestid
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:42amRon Paul is a NUT, and his coolaid drinking followers are jerks.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:46amCalling Ron Paul a nut without specifying any details thereof makes your comments insubstantial and irrelevant flatulence.
Report Post »Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:51amCalling Ron Paul a nut without specifying any details to prove the claim, makes you a NUT, and makes your comments IRRELEVANT FLATULENCE.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:19amI see those posts “I like Ron, but………he will not win”. I’m listening to Ron for years, and in my opinion he is the guy. Look his record. Listen to what hi is talking about. He don’t play R-D games. He is true libertarian. Only one way we will survive (mean be free) we have to stand for Constitution.
MAN CAN RULE HIM SELF – HOW? Look into instruction.
Report Post »JD Matthew
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:20amANARCHO CAPITALIST, do you not read or are you just dismissing Ron Paul’s isolationist idolagy.
Report Post »escape_from_socialism
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:25am@DashRipRock
Either you communist and you love thief or you just moron. Read END THE FED again.
Report Post »Abby Normal
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:31amI would vote for Ron Paul if he ran, he is a no nonsense guy, knows how the economy works, actually wants to see the Fed go away (who else does?), it is an illegal entity! Why should a handful of people, in cloak and daggar, set our interest rates, or manipulate our money supply, or lends our tax payer dollars to foreign entities? This is highway robbery, and needs to be stopped. Ron does need to come around on the foreign policy, I don’t think protectionism or isolationism works very well. Not sure where he stands on the military, but as for the descresionary spending, I think he could help fix this country in a big way. It would be painful, but he would do it.
Report Post »Abby Normal
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 10:33amOh, and you can keep the RINO comb-over nutjob, and the slicked back gentleman from Mass, those two need not run!
Report Post »FormerLib
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 1:46pmRon Paul is maddening, because he completely gets it better than anyone else about economic matters, but could not be more wrong on foreign policy if he set out to be. Not that what we’ve been doing has been all that great, either, but to elect him with any hope of doing better would be an insanely giant step backward. Regarding th rest of the world, it;s as if we’re in a football game, and rather than refine the rules and beef up our offensive line, his solution is to take the ball, leave the field and not play until we’re forced to, at a terrible disadvantage.
Report Post »Malachai
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 2:14pm@JD MATTHEW: Apparently you are the one who isn’t paying attention. He‘s said repeatedly he’s not an isolationist. If you think throwing American troops’s lives away in pointless wars is a good thing, then yes I can see why you don’t like him.
PS: Here‘s him specifically saying he isn’t and explaining what it means since many here obviously don’t know. http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/12/ron_paul_isolationism_isnt_wha.html
Report Post »tifosa
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:09pmHahahahahahahah Once again, JVS, takin’ the bacon in terms of FUNNY!!
Report Post »downbad
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 3:09pmIts funny how the only criticism people can make on Paul is that he’s “weird”, “a nut”, “isolationist”, “unelectable.” All this recited verbatim from MSM and coming from people who claim to know the game the MSM is playing.
Wake up people, go to the source and stop getting your news from FOX. They play the same games as the other alphabet soups. We all know the establishment is scared, FOX is just the right wing establishment… READ PAUL’S OWN WORDS even if only to support your premature conclusion. You may just be surprised when you actually listen to his reasoning.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:15pm“Ron Paul Wins CPAC Straw Poll…Again”
And if you look at this honestly, you know it means less this time than it did last year!
The Dems are using RP to split our vote, please don’t let them.
http://tinyurl.com/4s67e3q
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:18pmDashRipRock
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:05pm
“CPAC Straw polls are becoming USELESS”
Becoming?
http://tinyurl.com/4jkdyvw
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 4:32pmmcfinch
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:19pm
“He definitely will win.”
jzs
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:26pm
“He could win and become President”
ObliviouslyAware
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:33pm
“Ron Paul is AWESOME!!!”
Mister President
Posted on February 12, 2011 at 11:34pm
“Ron Paul would be an exceptional President.”
Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 12:24am
“If your not backing Paul at this point then maybe nothing will wake you.”
I’m glad you folks are standing behind your guy. I just pray that you will put as much youthful energy in to getting the nominee elected as POTUS. Which will not be Ron Paul. It is simply a matter of numbers. There is not, and will not be, the numbers for RP to win the nomination. Then think ahead of the general. He would have no chance going up against Obama.
THE GOAL THIS TIME IS TO BEAT OBAMA. This is not the time for wishful thinking, this is the time to put a candidate forward that can beat Obama. All this other crappola keeps us from concentrating on beating Obama. For the sake of the country, please put your energies into someone that can beat Obama.
http://tinyurl.com/4jkdyvw
Report Post »downbad
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:22pm“This is not the time for wishful thinking, this is the time to put a candidate forward that can beat Obama.” You think if we had John McCain we’d be any better off? Open your eyes and see that they are all the same. We need someone who stands on the principles we all believe in.
Report Post »Jefferson
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:52pmIt is amazing how many moronic comments just parrot whatever they saw on the TEEVEE. RON PAUL CAN WIN. IT IS HIS TIME, AND THE TIME IS NOW!! When will you wake up from your television induced slumber and stop letting others think for you? So what is he doesn’t have the nicest hair, or the slickest speech. ARE YOU THAT SHALLOW?!? NO ONE knows economics better than Ron Paul, NO ONE knows the damage done by the Federal Reserve to our currency and ultimately our way of life. NO ONE knows how DISASTROUS our foreign policy has been to this country’s safety. NO ONE GOT MORE DONATIONS FROM THE MILITARY IN ‘08 THAN RON PAUL. WHY DO YOU THINK THAT IS!?! WAKE UP!!!
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:59pmRon Paul sure talks a good game. I’d vote for him. He couldn’t be worse than what we have now.
Report Post »CottonMPG
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:05pmI haven‘t heard him speak and if he says anything that could be construed as antisemitic I wouldn’t vote for him. I have only read his official statements on relevant issues.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:33pmdownbad
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 6:22pm
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I cannot stand McCain, but the honest answer to your question is… yes, we would have been much better off. If McCain was our POTUS do you honestly believe we would have to waste valuable time and effort to repeal Obamacare? Do you honestly believe McCain would go around the world begging for forgiveness from foreign leaders for being such a great country? Would McCain have communists and socialists working for him in the White House? Do you think for a minute that McCain would be calling for corporations to spread their wealth around?
McCain may be a jerk, but he’s not dripping with desire to turn this country into some sort of Marxist Nirvana.
Obama must be taken down and we must be careful not to get into petty fights about people like RP. We have to concentrate our efforts on people that actually have a chance of beating Obama, cause no matter what anyone wants to claim, there is only one goal this time around… “BEAT OBAMA”!
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:43pmJefferson
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 7:52pm
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And the vast majority of military votes don’t ever get counted. Look, I’m not wanting to start a fight over RP, so lets try a compromise. Help us get someone electable to win the white house so Obama gets the boot. Then we support RP in the next election. One caveat, RP has to brush-up a bit on his foriegn policy creds.
http://tinyurl.com/4rv8xsm
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 9:48pm@THEPATRIOTDAVE
Report Post »Sorry old boy. If Ron is not the republicrat nominee then you will be watching my vote along with 10 to 20% of the possible GOB base vote Libertarian. The activist base that is. Not enough to win but i think i speak for most of us when i say we won’t vote lesser of 2 evils. I suppose there may be other people with a libertarian philosophy out their willing to run but Paul is the best chance we have ever had.
cykonas
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 12:01pm@Sinista Mace
In Re: Sinista Mace
Posted on February 13, 2011 at 8:39am
What Dr_Funk is saying……..
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Excellent post, Sinista.
ozz
Posted on February 14, 2011 at 1:01pmAnarcho Capitalist is dead right!! If Ron Paul does not get the nomination the GOP will lose 10% of it’s base. Not only that but the many independents that voted for Obummer because Mcain stank. Mcain lost because we are tired of voting in the lesser evil. Any one who lets the TV news caster cast his vote is a moron. Ron PAUL is the most pro constitution politician out there. The TEA party started with his supporters. YOU RUN A RINO and BO gets a 2nd term. That is how he got his first. And remember this..
Report Post »THEY ALSO SAID REAGAN COULD NEVER GET ELECTED!! They also said he was a nice old man but never.
dbakken
Posted on February 16, 2011 at 6:17pmRon Paul had a great cheering crowd. Fox News put on a clip of last years Conservative Action Group where booing occurred. They are continuing to bash Ron Paul. This was very underhanded and Fox News needs to apologize NOW.
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