Ron Paul’s “2009/2010 College Tour for Freedom”

I have been thinking about this for some time and it seems to make more sense every time I think about it. What better place to raise the idea than at the Daily Paul?

Let’s give President Obama and the Democrats six months to continue the “same old, same old” bigger-than-ever governmental intervention into our lives. Maybe by then people will be already asking themselves “This is the “change” that I voted for?”

This is where Ron Paul steps back into the picture (he never left) and what a better place to start than at the college campuses of the US. The college campuses were the nidus for foreign policy and other changes in the 1960’s and 1970’s and could be so again. We already know that Dr. Paul can draw a crowd as he has already spoken to packed auditoriums at major universities during the primary campaign. This time the format should be geared specifically to students with slides during the presentation and handouts at the end. That is what students are used to. It should be the same speech at each college with a 10 or 12 Point Plan to Restore the Republic (or similar). I think that slides with graphs, charts, data and quotes are important because much, if not most, of what Dr. Paul says is being heard, sadly, for the first time. When I listen to Dr. Paul, I sometimes wish that he would elaborate on a point that he assumes that we all know, and we don’t. Just think about that powerful slide that shows how inflation was non-existent for the many years that gold was $20/ounce and then what happened after governmental meddling and eventually abandoning the gold standard. Students need to learn that the Federal Government is most often the problem, not the solution. The states are quite capable of managing their own affairs. The “tour” goal should be at least one college in each state during the 2009-10 school year. It could have an impact on the mid-term elections and, hopefully, a big impact in 2012. Whether Dr. Paul is up to it, I don’t know, but I think that this is an idea worth exploring, don't you?