#1 Most Popular in Latest New Yorker Magazine: Ron Paul's Libertarian Roots
Submitted by Barracuda_Trader on Tue, 02/21/2012 - 06:07On December 16, 2007, on the two-hundred-and-thirty-fourth anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, Ron Paul, congressman and Presidential candidate, presided over a nationwide fund-raiser. This was a new tea party, with a new slogan: “Liberty is brewing.” In Boston, hundreds of Paul’s supporters marched to Faneuil Hall. Paul himself appeared in Freeport, Texas, where organizers had prepared barrels for him to dump into the Brazos River. One barrel read “United Nations”; another read “I.R.S.” The campaign raised more than six million dollars in one day, which was a record, and the event prefigured the protests that became common as the Tea Party movement coalesced, in 2009. The movement, with its focus on economic liberty and small government, sometimes seemed like a continuation of Paul’s campaign for the Republican nomination, during which he won a great deal of attention and a modest number of votes. It’s not much of a stretch to call him the “Godfather of the Tea Party,” as his campaign literature does, quoting Fox News. Ron Paul was ahead of his time
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I didn't like this article...
I thought it was an attempt to marginalize Dr. Paul and make him sound a bit weird. I watched the video from the Morning Joe show and I thought the author did better there, but he seemed to not quite comprehend the inter-relatedness of all issues coming form Paul's beliefs. He kept saying it was just about the monetary system, mostly, but he didn't quite grasp how everything is connected.
What it 200,000 liberal
What it 200,000 liberal readers got bit by the bug of liberty because they were comfortable with this writer's style?
And they became committed supporters.
And they held their own fundraisers
The Real Question: "Will Americans Throw Off The Chains of 100 Years of Slavery in 2012?" --Google that!
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Speech 2008 Rally For the Republic
Ron Paul: "In a true revolution... believe me the revolution doesn't occur within a single political party. A true revolution and those views will be reflected in the Republican party and the Democrat party and the Independent party and everybody in the country will be affected!" Speech 2008 Rally For the Republic
VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34W-rg8jHY&lr=1
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Blah blah blah
So hard to read this. Every possible place to offer putdowns is filled.
"His toughest verdicts emerge as astonished squeaks"
"and then shuffled out"
"Paul wistfully recalled the American Revolution"
"This is what Paul offers his followers: a chance to get past the insipid illusion of everyday life and join the struggle against an enemy most people can’t even see."
"In 1971, when President Richard Nixon announced that American dollars would no longer be redeemable for gold, Paul saw disaster, and when he ran out of friends and family members and patients to warn, he became a political candidate, which gave him an excuse to warn strangers"
Yuck and yuck again.
Why are NYC writers such long winded preening shits
I'm just saying.
And there was a lot of back handed hoity-toity insults too.
Like our position is more like a religion.
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I think the following is pretty telling from the article:
"People don’t think of Paul as a top-tier Republican candidate partly because they think of him as a libertarian... ---> and, sometimes, anti-Republican." <---
In other words, "anti-establishment". As if there's something wrong with being anti-establishment. In my opinion, the current establishment is like.... some kind of a religion.
I have run into this before as well. I've never thought of this before now, but right now I feel like I would ask the following of someone that insinuates it's a religion...
"If libertarian gold bugs seem like they are part of a religion, then shouldn't paper fiat pusher collectivists appear to be part of a religion?"
It just seems to me that some people will say anything, and I mean anything, to keep the individual from being empowered to control his own peaceful destiny.
"If we lose freedom here there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth." -Ronald Reagan
When they took us off the Gold Standard they took away our money... in order to make it theirs. -OneTinSoldier
Kalefa Sannah on Morning Joe
Here's the author of the Ron Paul article, Kalefa Sanneh, on yesterday's MSNBC Morning Joe:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH7ivncsrZM
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Suprisingly good article
It gives Paul credit for starting the tea party, goes into some of his positions, and even gives examples of his good character. For example, they mentioned that he posed for two hundred photos after a speech.
Even goes into Mises and Rothbard. Nice.
Don't forget
the hit pieces as well.... "Ron Paul cant win"...down vote from me! Tired of these halfwit articles from halfwit journalist...
"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin."
Samuel Adams