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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.
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Ron Paul is a friggin idiot.
Plenty of idiots have been American presidents, but as a friend of the American people I would not stand for Ron Paul being the next.
They deserve better.
Would Ron Paul make a good president?
I think Ron Paul would be the best possible compromise to both parties, and yet do all the important things to get America in shape.
Things the Liberals will like:
He supports the legalization of drugs and g** marriage. He wants the government out of people’s personal lives, and he supports pulling out of Iraq, all things the left in general like.
Things the Right-Wingers will like:
He supports the state’s rights to handle their own affairs, he supports free markets, opposes bills to push government control.
Things both sides SHOULD like:
He wants to keep the government to constitutional limits.
Things I like:
Nearly everything
Ron Paul is a champion of freedom at all levels, and most liberal complaints about conservatives do not apply to him.
I genuinely believe Ron Paul would be the best president since Reagan, possibly better.
Part of Paul’s fervent support in 2008 was grounded in college-aged voters, a constituency that also largely favored Barack Obama, but Paul said today that Mr. Obama won’t be able to hang on to the youth vote.
“I think that Obama will not be able to hang on to that enthusiasm of the young people because of what’s happened in the last couple years”, Paul said in Des Moines, Iowa, after his exploratory committee was announced.
The financial crisis, the bloated deficit and the ongoing wars make the libertarian views Paul is known for, such as his anti-interventionist foreign policy and his antipathy toward the Federal Reserve are, he suggested, even more relevant than they were in 2008.
“I believe there are literally millions of more people now concerned about the very things I talked about four years ago”, he said, such as, “the excessive spending, the entitlement system, the foreign policy, as well as the monetary system”.
“If you want to curtail spending, then you can’t do it without addressing the inflationary system”, continued Paul, who chairs a House subcommittee on domestic monetary policy. “Congress does not have to act responsibly and they’ve resorted to printing out money”.
The last time a sitting House member was elected president of the United States was in 1880 which doesn’t bode well for Ron Paul.
And his biggest challenge in emerging as a viable candidate amid a conservative primary electorate is likely to be the same one that kept him confined to the single-digits at the polling booth during his 2008 run.
His non-interventionist foreign policy philosophy!
Moreover, the Republican Party’s burgeoning GOP voter registration is also going to work against Paul.
Tim Albrecht, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad’s communications director, said in reference to Paul’s approximate 2008 Iowa vote count, “If caucus turnout is higher than last time, and it will be given there is no Democratic contest, Ron Paul needs to expand from his 12,000 supporters”.
“To do so, his message will need to resonate. The question is: Can Ron Paul earn any votes from those independents and Democrats who cross over? I have not seen an expansion beyond his initial 2008 support, and that will be his biggest challenge”.
Ron Paul’s a strict constitutionalist and defender of civil liberties. I think it would be a travesty if Ron Paul isn’t the next president. He stands for the things the founding fathers stood for, which is a rare quality.
Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) yesterday (June 8, 2011) introduced an amendment to the Economic Development Revitalization Act that would increase the federal debt ceiling by $2.4 trillion, which Paul is hoping will demonstrate the lack of support for a clean increase without further spending curbs.
I think that he’d make a good president, and perhaps even a great one.
I would vote for the ticket and especially one that had him running with Alan Keyes.
Both are Constitutional politicians
Well you might get the chance to vote for him because he He just announced his candidacy ahead of a rally in Exeter, N.H.
“At this moment I’m officially announcing I am a candidate”, he told ABC’s “Good Morning America” and, “The time has come around to the point where the people are agreeing with much of what I’ve been saying for 30 years so I think the time is right”, he added.
Paul, 75, made his remarks in New Hampshire, where he’s on a two-day swing following a stop in Iowa.
Citing unnamed polling, he said that he’s joining the race at a time when more and more people are looking at his ideas for running the country.
“I believe right now we’re coming in No. 1 and the Republican primary is an absolute possibility. Many, many times better than it was four years ago. Our troops, our supporters, the grassroots, are enthusiastic, moreso than ever, and whereas I was impressed before, I’m super impressed now with the enthusiasm that we’re getting”.
Texas Congressman Ron Paul ran away with 40% of the vote at the Republican Leadership Conference’s straw poll vote in New Orleans Saturday.
But from the audience’s reaction, you’d never have guessed how easily Paul won because much of the crowd booed as poll results were announced.
A small number of cheers could be heard from the Texas congressman’s supporters, but noticeably absent was his massive following that filled the conference center on Friday with their Ron Paul signs, chants, and cheers.
Despite a last-minute cancellation of his scheduled speech, citing a bad cold, Jon Huntsman finished second in the polls with 25% of the vote, ahead of Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann (13%), businessman Herman Cain 7%), and the winner of last year’s poll, and current Republican front-runner, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney (5%), who did not attend the conference.
Rep. Ron Paul announced Tuesday that he won’t seek re-election to the Texas U.S. House seat he’s presented for nearly 24 years, and instead will concentrate on getting the Republican nomination for president to run against President Obama in 2012.
Paul made the announcement via Twitter, and linked to a local Texas newspaper to share the details.
“I felt it was better that I concentrate on one election”, Paul told The Facts, a news service covering Brazoria County, Texas, a portion of which Paul represents.
“It’s about that time when I should change tactics”.
Paul, 75, has run for the presidency three times, and cultivated a substantial following in the 2008 primary race running on the themes of limited government and less federal spending as well as personal liberties and a limited role in international conflicts.
Paul told the newspaper that he thinks his chances in 2012 for the GOP nomination are better than they were in 2008.
“We have a lot more support right now”, he reportedly said. “Things are doing well for us”.
An obstetrician by profession, Paul served four terms in the U.S. House between 1976-1984, then ran again as part of the 1994 Republican Revolution. His departure leaves the race for the seat wide open.
Ron Paul would be an absolute disaster for foreign policy; even worse than Obama who’s left us without even one ally.
Paul hasn’t got a clue about Israel for example.
Israel has to spend 80% of what it gets in military aid from the US in the US and that creates huge numbers of job. And part to the deal means that Israel which is the 4th biggest exporter of arms in the world is forbidden to compete against the US on certain deals.
And what’s more the US-Israel relationship is a significant asset To US national interests!
And name me one country that improved its economy by becoming isolationist.