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    Default Paying Some Attention To Ron Paul

    I'm glad to see a conservative publication providing some coverage on what purports to be mainstream conservative/libertarian. It's not.

    http://spectator.org/archives/2011/0...neoliberal-re/

    Ron Paul and the Neoliberal Reeducation Campaign

    By Jeffrey Lord on 8.23.11 @ 6:09AM
    To bring about radical and permanent change in any society, our primary focus must be on the conversion of minds through education.
    -- Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul



    Sigh.



    Somebody needs to say this.



    Does Ron Paul have a lot of interesting ideas he puts forward as a presidential candidate?

    Yes. From his honestly libertarian views (he was the 1988 Libertarian presidential nominee, so he's been at this a long time) to his willingness to challenge the status quo on economics (questioning the role of everything from sugar subsidies to the Federal Reserve) to his emphasis on the Constitution and the Founding Fathers, Congressman Paul has been fearless in sticking with his principles. And in bringing new ideas -- or old ideas -- to an American electorate that has been staggered by the far-left reality that is the Obama Administration.



    But as complaints surface in the wake of his strong showing in the Iowa Straw Poll, complaints from Paul supporters and candidate Paul himself that he is not receiving the attention that is his due -- someone should say the Congressman and his supporters are correct. There should be -- must be -- more attention paid to the Paul campaign.



    Why?



    Because the Paul campaign is not just a campaign for president. This is a campaign -- a serious campaign -- to re-educate the American people to an alternate universe of reality. A campaign that goes far beyond whatever will happen at the polls in 2012.



    And sorry to say, this re-education campaign does not present a pretty picture of itself.

    Looming over the interesting and appealing ideas of the Paul campaign is a veritable political tornado of allegations involving anti-Semitism, racism, pacifism, far left-wingism and, at the edges, a tiny flicker of intimidation.




    So let's spill it all out on the table and take a look...
    That's the intro, takes up about 3/4 of the first page. The article is 6 pages long. Enjoy.
    Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.
    This is known as “bad luck.” - Robert Heinlein

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    Racism, anti-semitism, pacifism... well, all of those look equally as bad.
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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