I just changed my voter registration from Indepedent to Republican so I can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries.
I wasn’t going to do this, but my younger brother encouraged me to do so. My brother is four years younger than me, and this will be the first time he can vote in the Presidential election. I think I was pretty much completely jaded about politics by the time I could vote, although I was intensely interested before then. Part of what jaded me was volunteering on an actual political campaign. 9/11 didn’t help either (ironic – it seemed like the rest of the country was awash in patriotism immediately thereafter.) I don’t really follow politics these days. I have my preferences. For the long shot, my ideal is Ron Paul, but I’ll be very happy with Giuliani, who I think is by far our best bet, although it would probably help his chances if he changed his name to something more phonetic. I’ll vote for any Republican who gets the nomination, unless it’s Mitt Romney. If Romney gets the nomination I will vote Democrat, unless the Dem is Clinton. If the lineup is Clinton-Romney I am changing all my US dollars to gold and leaving the country. (My Dem preference, by the way, is Obama.)
Part of what motivated me to finally change my party affiliation was discovering this video, in which Ron Paul eloquently and passionately addresses the need for monetary reform in front of Congress.
Since my main interest in politics these days is financial, I’m a fan of Ron Paul. I believe he would be good for the economy and (most importantly) for my wallet. The question is, will he just be another Ross Perot? His support is great enough that I can see him taking enough votes away from Guiliani that we’ll end up with with Romney as the Republican candidate. I’m more scared of having Romney elected than having Ron Paul not elected (for those wondering why I hate Romney, I lived briefly in Massachusetts and worked there longer and I found it horrifyingly unpleasant. Also, I don’t trust anyone who wears magic underwear. Call me intolerant.) The most likely scenario, I think, is that Ron Paul will end up being another Howard Dean – lots of Internet hype, but falling flat at the polls. Even if Ron Paul gets the nomination, I question his chances of winning against any Democrat. My money is on the Dems next year – they do have that whole “we didn’t start the war” thing going for them.
This is why, until now, I haven’t been able to fully back Ron Paul. My concerns haven’t changed, but the conclusion I reached is that I’m willing to take the risk that Ron Paul will just be a vote leech in exchange for the slim chance that he could actually get elected. If any of the other major contenders get elected it will be the same mediocrity as we’ve had for the past century or so. If Ron Paul gets elected I will be able to put off my plan of eventually fleeing to Malta for at least four years. That’s a chance worth taking, in my estimation.
So there you have it: my ringing endorsement of Ron Paul for President. It took me less than five minutes to change my voter registration online through my Secretary of State’s website. Some states may require you to print off and mail in a form, but in all cases it should be easy enough to find the necessary form online. I would encourage any Libertarians and Independents who back Ron Paul to temporarily change their registration to Republican in order to vote for him in the primaries. If enough of us do so, he just might stand a chance.
August 20, 2007 at 7:36 pm |
Ron Paul is the ONLY candidate from either party who is NOT a CFR member. All of the other candidates from BOTH parties are just clones of each other and puppets for the international bankers/ NWO thugs.
August 20, 2007 at 9:16 pm |
What about Fred Thompson?
August 21, 2007 at 3:46 am |
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August 21, 2007 at 4:55 pm |
Glad to find another Ron Paul supporter. The press is trying to ignore him, but hopefully if enough people keep the grassroots efforts alive, then he can’t be ignored.
August 21, 2007 at 5:20 pm |
Alcibiades, the CFR website lists Fred Thompson as a member. When he was asked about this in Texas recently he was caught on video claiming he had no idea that the agenda of the CFR is to create a one-world government, or the precursor to that in our hemisphere, the North American Union by the year 2010 which for all practical purposes will destroy the sovereignty of the USA.
Ms. Moneymakers, I just found your website thanks to an entry on the blog of Steve Gordon who posted a comment above mine. I also left a comment on your “About Ms. Moneymakers”, in case you might be interested.
You’re making a wise choice in supporting Ron Paul. Thanks!!
August 22, 2007 at 4:54 am |
Alcibiades, I didn’t mention Fred Thompson because, for me anyway, he doesn’t have an effect on my decision whether or not to vote for Ron Paul. He’s the most middle-of-the-road, mainline conservative imaginable. I doubt that Ron Paul would be taking many votes away from Thompson. My main concern is whether or not he would take votes away from Guiliani.
Or were you asking why I am not interested in Thompson? He’s a great candidate if you’re a completely average, party-line Republican, which I am not. He’s so unoriginal it’s hard for me to imagine anyone getting really excited about him, but that just might be what gets him the nomination. As for getting elected, if I was betting money Guiliani is the only one I think has a fighting chance against the Democrats this time.
August 22, 2007 at 5:08 am |
Don, I believe that Fred Thompson, like most politicians, honestly has no idea that he/they are just pawns serving a much larger agenda. Maybe that’s giving them too much credit, but I really think most politicians don’t have a clue what’s actually going on.
August 22, 2007 at 12:01 pm |
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August 22, 2007 at 9:29 pm |
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August 23, 2007 at 12:50 am |
Well, it’s just I don’t know why anyone would want to vote for Guiliani. He’s too much of an autocrat. I don’t think he can get the Republican nomination because he pisses off too much of the main party.
Fred Thompson, in my view, stands a better chance as he is more in line with their base, but isn’t an ultra-religious or ultra-conservative.
I can’t believe anyone believes in that Council on Foreign Relations conspiracy theory.
August 23, 2007 at 8:04 am |
Alcibiades, I didn’t want to get into “why I like Guiliani” in my “why I like Ron Paul” post, so I figured I’d wait and see if anyone asked and make a separate post on the subject. I’ll have that up in a day or two.
August 23, 2007 at 7:06 pm |
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August 26, 2007 at 5:13 am |
You said that the democrats have the “we didn’t start the war” claim to ride on going into 2008.
There’s a big problem with that.
1. The democrats in fact voted to authorize giving Bush the power to make war on Iraq. Of those running for President, only Kucinich voted with Dr. Paul against giving the President authorization.
2. When given the majority in congress in 2006, the democratic leadership didn’t end funding as they promised.
Democrat voters are so upset with this that they are storming the offices of their congressmen during this Congressional break. It is not pretty.
Ron Paul was standing up and fighting the neocon scourge all the way back to 1998 when resolutions and bills were being passed to escalate the war in Iraq. Between 1993 and 2001, the US military flew over 40,000 sorties in Iraq.
Clinton/Albright were in charge of foreign policy during that time.
Hillary and Obama both are pro-war neocons. (they aren’t the only neocon Democrats) Neo-conservatism is not a right wing ideology. Leo Strauss, the father if neo-conservatism, was a Trotskyite. That isn’t what provides us with a direct link from Hillary and Obama to neo-conservatism. However, their platform, past actions (voting for Patriot act and Iraq wars and funding) prove beyond any doubt that they approve of the neocon plan. Hillary just recently indicated that she is down with “the plan” and would have no problem following it to the letter.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/fisk/fisk13.html
This may seem like shameless self promotion. It really isn’t. What I am trying to show you is that this is an election like no other in our life time. We have a candidate with the character and integrity to actually make it to the end of the race and who has espoused libertarian principles throughout his career. He has no political or moral baggage that his opposition can use against him either.
If they try to argue he’s unpatriotic for consistently opposing war, he wins. If they try to paint him as unpatriotic because he didn’t support the patriot act, he wins.
The political position in which the neocon democrats and republicans have placed themselves is unenviable. In chess this is called checkmate. If Dr. Paul can make it into the general election, no democrat stands a chance because none exist, other than Kucinich and Gravel, who have any integrity with regard to foreign policy.
Although, I certainly would love to see that because at least Kucinich or Gravel would have the courtesy and courage to actually debate ideas.
August 26, 2007 at 2:05 pm |
Rick, let me clarify my statement. You know and I know that the Democrats have just as much involvement in the war as the Republicans do, but that’s not the way the Democrats are spinning it or the way the majority of Americans view it, and that’s all that really counts at election time.
August 30, 2007 at 1:46 am |
Every cyrrency is subject to collapse, fiat or not The primiary cause of collapse in any system are issues of liquidity either excessive (inflation) or scacity (deflatoin). The reason why fiat currencies are all the rage for the past 30 years is because they are simply easier to manage than say a gold standard since all liquidity issues are created solely by the will the administrator the currency. I know that may sound bad to Ron Paul fans, but most people who study economics perfer the steady hand of a secret cabal such as the Fed over the radomness of a gold strike any day of the week since they have just as much if not more to lose as everyone else.
But besides the point, do you think Diane Fienstien who doesn’t know the difference between Sunni’s and Shites is a better gaurdian of our wallets than the Fed?
Now I am not saying that I aggree with everything the Fed does, but all in all they do a decent job, besides the Gold Standard was terrible and fraught with problems that even Adam Smith ridiculed as obvious, and he didn’t have the benefit of our databases and technology and that was hundred’s of year’s ago.
September 3, 2007 at 5:07 am |
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