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Ron Paul:  The Next Ross Perot?  

Republican Presidential Candidate Gains Grass-Roots Support among Conservatives and Young Voters

By:  David Deschesne

Editor/Publisher, Fort Fairfield Journal

   Conservative Republican Presidential Candidate, Ron Paul from Texas is taking the country by storm, in spite of neo-con Republican party leadership attempting to quash his bid for the top seat.  His popularity amongst the youth and “common-folk” of the country brings back memories of another widely popular alternate candidate some years back by the name of Ross Perot.

    Many major polls and dozens of minor polls all have the Texas Congressman far ahead of the more establishment neo-con Republican candidates by double digits.  This has the Republican leadership scared since they have decided to essentially merge with the Democrat party on most of the major issues in this country.

   Congressman Paul recently revealed in an interview on the Alex Jones Show that a surprisingly large sector of the youthful voters are starting to pay attention to his pro-freedom message.

   “The exciting thing is the message has caught on.  I think one of the more interesting things about who’s responding is it’s the younger generation which I think is good news for the country,” Paul said.  “It’s the younger generation that is bearing the burden; they’re starting to recognize what we’re dumping on them.  Whether it’s the war in the Middle East; whether it’s our foreign policy; whether it’s an entitlement system we can’t pay for or our financial system - our monetary system - young people are starting to wake up.  Besides, they like their privacy, which is delightful!”

   Paul believes the concept of getting government out of micromanaging everybody’s lives is what’s so appealing to them.  “It’s the idea of freedom that if I’m willing to present the case for allowing these young people to have their way and not put a burden on them, all of a sudden they have become very excited about what’s happening.”

   Paul is aware that the money powers that make up the ruling establishment of the U.S. government are not going to take his bid quietly lying down.  “There’s a lot at stake,” he said, “if we shake up the establishment.  What’s at stake for us is our freedom.  What’s at stake for them is the money, the control and the power.”

   As a true fiscal conservative, Congressman Paul can’t reconcile some of the foolhardy spending practices of his Republican contemporaries on war spending.   “This is not conservative.  We don’t even have any money; we borrow every penny to fight this war from the Chinese and the Chinese can bring us to our knees because of our monetary system and our trade policies, and yet nobody says anything. And conservatives call this a ‘conservative philosophy?’  At the same time, they’re running up these deficits.  I’m going to put the burden back on the Republican leadership for not being exactly what they say they are.  I think I’m a mainstream Republican - I still believe in balanced budgets.”

   Paul considers the neo-con war hawk spenders in his party as the radicals, not himself.  “I think they’re radicals.  I think they’re radical in their foreign policy, I think they’re radical in endorsing the Democratic proposals for entitlements, they’re radical when it comes to taxes and entitlements.  And now they have a need to run up these deficits and continue this fraud that exists in the Federal Reserve system that keeps printing money to pay the bills; that entirely destroys the middle class.”

  The Congressman detects a “snow job” on the economic reports put out by the government.  “Everything is wonderful according to government reports.  At the same time you know the people and what they’re complaining about and they’re not all that happy that their liberties are being removed at the same time their economic condition is getting worse.”

   He looks at the recent National Security Presidential Directive 51, where President Bush granted himself emergency powers that supercede even Congress, as an omen for the immediate future.  “I think they’re preparing  for bad conditions and they know what we know although they’ll deny it, and wouldn’t say it, and they expect turmoil.  When the entitlement system breaks down there’s going to be a lot of chaos and I think they also know the Chinese could bring us to our knees if they desire to and they could destroy the dollar and there’s going to be a lot of unhappy people.”

    The Congressman blames Congress for the President assuming more power than he has been Constitutionally granted.  “In some ways the executive branch always overextends [its power] but Congress is derelict because when they passed that change in the Insurrection Act in the DoD budget, they literally said it would be okay.”

  Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies.  He and Carol live in Lake Jackson, Texas and are the proud parents of five children and have seventeen grandchildren.

   Congressman Paul enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency.