The Hill: Rep. Paul — the reluctant leader of a still-energized grassroots movement
By Reid Wilson | 7/20/2009
The Hill
Soon after he returned to the House after his presidential bid ended last year, lawmakers approached Ron Paul (R-Texas) with the same question.
“How in the world did you raise all that money?”
Paul laughed while recounting the story during an interview with The Hill. He said members told him, “You raised $7 million and you didn’t even ask for it.”
“They wanted me to teach them how,” the 73-year-old lawmaker said.
A year and a half after his White House bid sparked fevered devotion, Paul doesn’t know what the next step is for the movement he helped build.
In fact, Paul, who ran for president in 1988 as a Libertarian, seems almost unwilling to take a leadership position among those who turned out to his rallies and who helped him raise more than $34 million seemingly out of nowhere.
“I play a role in it. I sort of give some guidelines to it,” Paul said of the movement. “But it is so energetic and spontaneous and so popular that it just goes.”
What a Man!
I love his humility.
Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica
Obama = O.ne B.ig A.ss M.istake A.merica
Awesome post!
Thanks.
They even mentioned Rand... sweet!
Thomas Jefferson once said, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
Well, I guess he called that one.
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Ron Paul as inspiration
Ron Paul is indeed a magnificent inspiration to a revived freedom movement which seems to have found its wings since 2007, starting with his (otherwise quixotic) quest for the GOP Presidential nomination.
However, it is neither possible, nor desirable, for him to lead us. He is only one man, with his own life, priorities and concerns. Like the rest of us, he has a family who loves him, friends and neighbors who welcome his company, and perhaps a medical practice back home that he may wish to return to.
He has faught---and is fighting--the good fight, but the struggle is far to large for any one personality. We must each find ways to advance liberty in our lifetime, and recover from the damage which a criminal and vicious New World Order elite is attempting to inflict upon the rest of us as we speak.
Fortunately, new "Ron Pauls" are growing. Writers, journalists, historians, economists, philosophers, engineers, alternative physicians and healers, and many other types of people. These will make names for themselves, and excel in the pursuit of liberty, in many different areas.
Ron Paul has given, and is giving his all. But we fledgelings must fly from the nest!!
PEACE AND FREEDOM@@
David K. Meller.
Why the painting
of Milton Friedman? That seems odd to me.
I'm not going to blast this
article to my email list because I don't like that he says he probably won't run. I need a yes I am running from him. The last line in this article is funny.
If you tell Americans the truth
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
they will give you their money, it is simple as that. We don't mind giving money to politicians that work for us, because we know we will get paid back in some way, shape, or form. I believe it is that simple.
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must. like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.-Thomas Paine
The R3volution requires action, not observation!!!!
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Very good article, no cheap shots.
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In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson approved the Federal Reserve Act. A few years later, he reflected:
"I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world -- no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men."
A century before, Thomas Jefferson reflected much the same sentiment:
"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks....will deprive the people of all property until their children wakeup homeless on the continent their fathers conquered....The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
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