Ron Paul with George Stephanopoulos

 

 

 

Here’s a video of George Stephanopoulos’s interview with Ron Paul. I realized while watching it, that I like Paul, not just because of what he says, but how he says it. To me, he comes across as a guy who is sincere and tells the truth about what his plans are. He doesn’t make me feel like I’m being lectured, or talked down to. He seems like a normal guy.I got the feeling the interview was just a tad biased against Paul. Especially towards the end when Stephanopoulos tells Paul that he would bet every cent he has on Ron Paul not winning. I admit, Ron Paul’s chance of winning looks pretty small right now, but it’s still early, and hopefully the momentum of Paul’s Campaign keeps building.

Even if the Presidency doesn’t come Paul’s way, it won’t all be bad. More and more people are hearing his ideas, and those people will be more open to candidates like Paul in the future. It might be too early for the kind of change that I, and many others, are hoping for in Ron Paul, but the change we want will eventually happen. It might not happen in 2008, and it might not happen in 2012. In fact, it might not happen in a Presidential Election at all. The change may have to wait until our government is too broken to be fixed. At that point, it won’t be the Ron Paul’s who are running for President who make the change, but the people of this country.

“…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.” -The Declaration of Independence

 

Ron Paul, Leading the Cause of Freedom in Iowa…

Here’s new Youtube video about Ron Paul…I’m not too keen on the cheesy music at the end…

 

and here’s another Ron Paul video dealing with the Federal Reserve…

Ron Paul Gaining Ground…

So, I guess now Ron Paul is leading the pack in the on-line popularity race.

Paul leads all Republicans in YouTube channel views with nearly 2.1 million, according to the popular video website. The next closest Republican is Romney, who has fewer than 700,000 channel views. Only Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) has more among all presidential candidates, with close to 5.2 million.

But Paul’s communications director, Jesse Benton, pointed out that the Texan’s channel has been up and running only three months, while Obama has had a YouTube channel since September of last year.Among YouTube channel subscribers, Paul is blowing away all competition, with 19,328 as of Friday morning, more than twice as many as Obama.

The Texas lawmaker also leads the GOP field in Facebook supporters and MySpace friends. TheHill.com

Hopefully, the on-line interest will help spread the word about Paul, and more people will begin to recognize his name.

Also, according to ABCNews.com Ron Paul now appears to be ahead of McCain in raising campaign money, although he still falls way short of Giuliani and Romney.

• Rudy Giuliani: $18 Million
• Mitt Romney: $12 Million
• Ron Paul: $2.4 Million
• John McCain: $2 Million

If I had a heap of money to donate, I’d send it Ron Paul’s way, but it lieu of money, I’ll just have to donate my time.

And to round out today’s post, here’s 13 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Ron Paul.

Ron Paul for President!

To follow up my previous post about James Madison, I believe Ron Paul could be another great American President.

Most times, I vote democratic or libertarian, but I wouldn’t be embarrassed voting republican, if it was a vote for Ron Paul.

 

He doesn’t rank very high against other candidates in the polls, but hopefully the internet buzz will help that. I think his biggest problem is that people just don’t know who he is. Come November 2008, if he’s made it that far, I’ll be putting the proverbial check-mark next to his name.

• Ron Paul on The Colbert Report
• Ron Paul on G4

James Madison, The Greatest American Hero…

James Madison is one of my favorite U.S. historical figures. I could write a long post about him, but I’ll just post links to Wikipedia and Whitehouse.gov.

I’m also a big fan of quotes. So, here are some quotes from James Madison, which I believe still apply today and show the intelligence and foresight of one of the greatest Americans.

“All men having power ought to be mistrusted.”

“History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling the money and its issuance. “

“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country; but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.”

“The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, or to publish their sentiments; and the freedom of the press, as one of the great bulwarks of liberty, shall be inviolable”

“It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known, and less fixed?”

“Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

“I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on the objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

“Commercial shackles are generally unjust, oppressive, and impolitic.”

“Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations.”

“I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.”

“I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.”

“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

“In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.”

“No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.”

“The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war.”

“War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.”

“Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.”