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Ron Paul | Foreign Aid to Israel | Zionism | The Daily Caller

dailycaller.com12/7/11

Photo: AP. Some conservatives see hostility toward Israel in Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul's advocacy of a non-interventionist foreign policy. But in an interview published online Wednesday afternoon, the Texas …

FORBES: Ron Paul Should Be The Next President Of The United …

www.dailypaul.com12/7/11

Yes there are a few subtle differences in candidates for president and their supporters and contributors. Ron Paul's supporters worry endlessly about printing enormous amounts of new money while the other candidates' …

Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty

Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney

Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee

Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman

Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan

Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich

Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum

Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman

Texas Rep. Ron Paul (R) is planning to announce the formation of a presidential exploratory committee on Tuesday in Iowa, and should make the announcement during a press conference in the state capital of Des Moines at 4:45 p.m. EDT (Eastern Daylight Time), 4/26/2011.

And according to a source close to the congressman, Paul also intends to name the members of his campaign’s Iowa leadership team, during the scheduled press conference,

Paul will be the fifth Republican to take the needed official step toward running for president, and an exploratory committee will allow him to begin assembling his campaign infrastructure in anticipation of a formal candidacy announcement.

Paul appeared poised to enter the race for weeks, and is already scheduled to appear at the first GOP presidential primary debate in South Carolina next week.

Moreover, he also formed a "testing the waters" account earlier this month that allows him to raise funds for a potential campaign.

Paul has already made the rounds in Iowa and New Hampshire courting key activists, and he won a county straw poll in South Carolina just this month.

Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson (R), is expected to compete with Paul for the libertarian vote, but Paul is by far the more well-known candidate in the field and should easily overshadow Johnson.

Paul last ran for president in 2008, and was placed second in the key primary state of Nevada, and it was notable that he appealed to younger voters and for his ability to raise money online with his highly successful "money bomb", which he successfully replicated for his political action committee in February 2011.

* A money bomb is a short burst of fundraising that typically spans a day or just a few hours, and is relies on viral advertising.

Paul Ryan Obama | Paul Ryan Occupy Wall Street | Video | Mediaite

www.mediaite.com10/9/11

On Meet the Press earlier today, Congressman Paul Ryan defended the legitimate rights of the Occupy Wall Street protestors to air their grievances about the government, but criticized President Obama for dividing the country …

Paul Ryan pushing Politifact's claim that Paul Ryan isn't trying to end …

hotspyer.com12/8/11

That echoes a previous false claim by Ryan that “The president has not put forward a plan that saves Medicare from bankruptcy, even though nonpartisan experts tell us that this could happen in 9-13 short years unless we act. …

This is Part 10 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.

Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty

Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney

Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee

Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman

Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan

Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich

Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum

Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman

Most of you are probably more than familiar with Paul Ryan and his latest deficit cutting proposals, but take a look at this anyway, because it’s poweful and has Obama very worried!

Having looked at lots of talkbacks on different sites, I can tell you that Ryan is very very popular.

INTERVIEWER: Let’s start with the big picture, President Obama’s budget for 2012, for the next fiscal year that starts next October, calls for a five-year freeze on nondefense discretionary spending he says would save $400 billion. No addressing of entitlements. How is your budget different?

RYAN: His freeze locks in very high spending levels. It’s really more of a floor to gain (ph) — with 24 percent increase in discretionary spending. If we go to 2008 levels, we’d get another $400 billion on top of that over the next 10 years.

Nothing on entitlements. He does nothing to address the drivers of our debt. The public debt will double in his first term and triple by the end of his budget. He adds $13 trillion more to our debt.

He’s punting on the budget and not doing a thing to prevent a debt crisis, which every single economist tells us is coming sooner rather than later in this country. We will address these issues.

INTERVIEWER: All right, let’s talk about your budget. Widely reported that your budget will cut spending by $2 trillion over the next decade. True?

RYAN: Well, it’s more than that, quite a bit more than that.

INTERVIEWER: Three trillion?

RYAN: More than that.

INTERVIEWER: Four trillion?

RYAN: We’re looking at more than that right now. We’re fine- tuning our numbers with the Congressional Budget Office literally today, over the weekend. But we’re going to be cutting a lot more than that.

INTERVIEWER: So more than $4 trillion, which is a significant number, because that was the president’s debt commission cut the deficit by $4 trillion.

RYAN: Yes, we will be exceeding the goals that were put out in the president’s debt commission.

So how would a Ryan-Trump ticket play out?