Sledge Hammer To The Face

Not content with a marginalized conservative voting base, Ron Paul has decided to take it to the people once again. I personally think its great that he is continuing his movement. People didn’t really comprehend his vision of liberty during the race, so the idea is to teach them…

Friday, June 13, 2008

Over the past 17 months you and I delivered a message of freedom, the likes of which American politics has not seen in decades. With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign has come to an end. But the Revolution has only begun.

Today I am happy to announce the official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty. Please visit our new website and join us: http://www.campaignforliberty.com

Over the next few months I will be developing a program, assembling a team, and announcing new and exciting projects. We will have a permanent presence on the American political landscape. That I promise you.

Right now, I need your patience and support. I want the Campaign for Liberty to be a grassroots campaign; so your energy, your creativity, your feedback, and your participation are essential.

Together, we will educate our fellow Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets. We will write commentaries and broadcast videos on the news of the day. And I’ll work with friends whom I respect to design materials for homeschoolers.

Politically, we will expand the great work of our precinct leader program. We will make our presence felt at every level of government. We will keep an eye on Congress, and lobby against legislation that threatens us. And we will identify and support candidates who champion our great ideas.

“In the final analysis,” I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, “the last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.”

Our time has come to act on these words.

May future generations look back on our work and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to their politicians, the opinion-makers, and the establishment, and saved their country.

For liberty,

Ron Paul

P.S. Please join me. Go to our website, www.campaignforliberty.com, and become a member of the Campaign for Liberty. Our goal is 100,000 members by September. Can we reach it?

I supposed they could be smoking apple flavored tobacco. I think that they are probably totally idiots. Hillary will not be legalizing pot. They should have Gravel or Ron Paul signs in their windows.

And if they are trying to help Hillary they need to get that Hookah out of the window. Unless…. Whoa…. Maybe they are like trying to make us associate Hillary with drugs so that we don’t vote for he and that will lead to Mike Gravel sweeping the rest of the race and to the eventual abolition of anti-drug laws. Whoaaa man…

He says it towards the end of the video.  He is asked whether he would support John McCain and then whether his supports should vote for a Democrat based on his Iraq war stance.

February 26, 2008

What thrilling rallies we’ve just had in Texas. First there were the Students for Ron Paul at the University of Texas in Austin. The media said 4,000 came. Our people think there were more like 7,000. In any event, it was a very enthusiastic gathering of our revolutionaries, as even the media admitted.

You will not be surprised to know that the young people there cheered the pure message of liberty: no preemptive wars, no Federal Reserve, no income tax, no police state, no drug war. Just American liberty and the Constitution, in the tradition of the framers.

But the rally in Kileen, though much smaller, may have been just as significant. Kileen is near Fort Hood, and among the 300 people who attended were many active-duty soldiers (though not in uniform) and their families. Whether it was the young man going back to Iraq for his fourth tour, or the sister of a soldier just killed there, they all wanted change in our foreign policy. Most heartbreaking was the young mother who asked for a signed copy of the Constitution for her son, “who will never know his dad.” He too was just killed in Iraq.

How can we ask one young American to die for a neocon empire? The soldiers and their families agree with us, which is why our campaign gets more financial support from active-duty and retired military than all the rest combined. They want to defend America, not be part of some globalist scheme to take away our country’s independence. And by the way ,at both rallies, nobody was for the monstrous Trans-Texas Corridor or the North American Union.

Coming up soon are the Texas and Ohio primaries, with others like Pennsylvania not long afterwards. We are contesting every one, and we will be heard at the Republican national convention in Minneapolis and beyond. A substantial minority of Americans in all parties, not to speak of Independents, agree with you and me. Until November and beyond, I want to work to turn that minority into a majority, with your help. https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate/

Sincerely,

Ron

It seriously is not over. High-power republicans will go with the public support, if we, as a country, give it to Dr. Paul, they will too!

While it might not be over until the fat lady sings, things are not looking as hopeful as they were one year ago. With Ron Paul fighting to keep our seat in congress and another night of John McCain winning delegates, I needed to do a little reminiscing to cheer myself up.

So here you go 10 great Ron Paul moments from between February 07 to August of 07.

Please post comments with links to videos that I haven’t included, but should have.

CNN / Lou Dobbs - Ron Paul Interview 2-26-2007

Congressman Ron Paul Visits My Dorm Room - April 07

Ron Paul in Debate at Reagan Library - First Debate - May 07

Watch the rest of the Ron Paul videos…

February 18, 2008

The DC neocons think their old dream is about to come true. They think they can defeat me in the Republican congressional primary in Texas on March 4th. And you know what? They may be right.

My opponent, who describes himself as a traditional conservative, is a dedicated servitor of all the special interests who have given us the disaster of recent years, from unconstitutional wars to a looming recession, from huge deficits to massive new welfare programs.

A Republican operative allied with the worst forces in DC recently said: “Give what you can [to Ron Paul’s opponent]. Ron Paul is running scared — using his Presidential campaign’s donors’ money to subsidize a desperate last-minute attempt to save his Congressional seat.”

That is a lie, of course. It is illegal to use presidential campaign donations in my congressional race. The congressional campaign has to stand on its own. But so far, we have raised only about a third of what a well-funded effort would need.

In my 10 terms in Congress, I have not only been able to serve my constituents, and help them, for example, negotiate federal red-tape. I have also been able to defend our principles of less spending, lower taxes, no inflation, and strict adherence to the Constitution. Some people in DC laugh at the idea that I should obey my oath of office, and ask first of any proposed legislation, is it constitutional? But I know that you share my support for the vision of the framers.

My friend Congressmen Wayne Gilchrest (R-Maryland) was just defeated in his primary election by a neocon fraud similar to the one I face. My friend Walter Jones (R-North Carolina) is under heavy pressure as well. People like our hand-picked opponents will do anything to gain and keep power. They represent everything that is wrong with DC.

If I am defeated in the upcoming congressional primary, our ideas will be held to have been defeated as well. It will be proclaimed from the rooftops in DC that such “ridiculous and outmoded notions” as the free market, sound money, personal liberty, limited government, and a pro-American foreign policy are through.

I am determined not to let this happen. All that you and I believe in is far too important to the future of our country, and to everyone and everything we love, to let the neocons dance on its grave.

Please, help me stop the lies, the distortions, the pressure groups, the special interests that benefit from DC rip-offs. There is still time to run radio and tv ads, to set up phone banks, to get out the vote. But unless you help, my reelection to Congress may be in jeopardy. Please help me return to Congress to fight for the people of my district, and for the ideas that can save our country from the path to trouble we are now on.

I hesitated to ask you, since you have already done so much. But my wife Carol said, “When you need help, you ask your best friends.” So I do ask you, to hold out your hand in support.

Please give today http://www.ronpaulforcongress.com, as generously and as quickly as you can.

Sincerely,

Ron

Even if you don’t live in Texas, but especially if you do, Ron Paul and the movement for true American liberty need you!

http://www.dumpjohnmccain.com/

This is a website with a really funny domain name and picture, but really serious content.  I don’t know if I support this groups efforts, but to support Ron Paul, I guess I would dump John McCain.

March on Washington anyone?

This is not a complete list. I wish that I had the time to list 100 freedoms. Please add yours to the comments!

Ron Paul

1. I will be able to choose how I want to spend my money.
2. I will be able to smoke pot if I want to.
3. I will be able to save my money without worrying about it losing value.
4. I will be able to stay at my job if I want, because even if I don’t get a raise I am not getting an annual pay cut.
5. I will be able to live in a sovereign nation with defined and secured borders.
6. I will be able to celebrate with my friends and relatives in the military when they come home from overseas.
7. I will be able to feel safe at home because the military is being used to protect us instead of maintaining an empire.
8. I will be able to choose to pay for my health car using regular health insurance, a medical savings account, neither (if I can afford it), or any number of options.
9. I will be able to understand the role of my President, because it is defined in the constitution.
10. I will have choice and freedom when using the Internet, because it will remain unregulated.

Hillary Clinton

1. I will be able to choose to fill out the long form in a vein attempt to get some of my money back.
2. I will be able to choose from community service or jail time for my pot offense.
3. I will be able to borrow as much money as possible because the interest rate is so close to inflation it is like they are giving away free money!
4. I will be able to get a second job because my salary can’t keep up with inflation.
5. I will be able to hire cheap labor under the table, because as long as they receive the benefits of Americans, but can undercut them, because they don’t pay taxes, they will always be here and willing to work for cheap.
6. I will be able to talk to my friends and relatives on the phone while they are stationed across the seas.
7. I will be able to feel hated by the rest of the world because my military is policing their nations.
8. I will be able to choose my own insurance plan or take the one that they make me pay for.
9. I will be able to listen to her explain what her constantly expanding role will be.
10. I will be able to see the net nanny page that shows up when I try to read political information

The January 30th Republican presidential debate last night looked like the classic evening at the old boys club. Million dollar baby Romney and the old sell-out McCain dominated the evening squabbling over who wants to stay in Iraq the longest. Even when Huckabee or Paul was asked a question somehow McCain or Romney’s name was in the question. Even though they had only about 3% of the talking time, Ron Paul and Mike Huckabee had more substance and better answers than McCain and Romney, but only one candidate was really able to nail the others.

Watch Romney and McCain in their little cat fight, and then watch Ron Paul take them to school!

Ron Paul takes them to school!