Who is the man behind the sidewalk chalk? If it weren’t for abundance of outdoor advertisements for Dr. Ron Paul, he would be just another name.
In this particular election where the field is larger than I can ever recall in my lifetime, it is especially important to have a clear understanding of your candidate’s position.
So honestly, what do we know about Paul other than his name is more popular that Poor Richard’s on a Thursday night?
I had the opportunity to speak with someone who attended a rally for him over the weekend. The rally was held at Nashville’s war memorial stadium across from the state capital.
There wasn’t an empty seat in the house with approximately 1,500 people in attendance. His speech was quoted as, “Unlike any speech ever heard at a political fund-raiser.” He spoke for 45 minutes to an hour with no note cards or prompters – speaking truly from the heart.
Paul never asked once for the anyone’s vote. He never made inflated or unrealistic promises, such as raising taxes, because it would have been virtually impossible during this time of economic ambiguity.
The good doctor did make mention that two things that would be at the top of his agenda if he is elected would be immediate and substantial troop withdraw and elimination of the income tax.
Our nation “officially” has a deficit of $9.1 trillion.
However, if viewed as a corporation and you take into consideration the pensions of government officials and military personal, it would probably be realistic to double that figure.
Our government is currently accumulating a $1.5 billion a day deficit that is unimaginable at best. No more money for warmongers in Congress.
Paul is devoted to shutting down the militant machine that we have chosen to ignore or worse, justify.
Here are a few facts about Paul. He is currently serving his 10th term in the U.S. House of Representatives.
During his tenure he has never voted to raise taxes or congressional pay. He has never voted for an unbalanced budget or to increase the power of the executive branch. Paul has never participated in a profitable congressional pension program and been named the “taxpayers’ best friend” in Congress.
Paul, a Republican from Texas, has vowed to end the IRS and stop central bankers’ “inflation tax.”
He wants to end financial dependency on other countries and bring jobs back to America.
He is a protector of individual liberties by stopping a national ID reformation and terminating the Patriot Act, which is a manufactured document released promptly after 9/11 that allows certain powers to look at private information with or without just cause.
Before I started school here I knew nothing about Ron Paul. Even after I saw the circular sidewalk commercials, I knew his name, but still had little knowledge. After this weekend, I know that Ron Paul is 72 years old, has been married for 50 years and has five children. Unlike many politicians today he is a doctor, not a lawyer, which I feel is to be significantly stressed.
A few years ago, my father told me when he was my age in the 70s his peers didn’t trust anybody over 50.
This was a time that is concurrent with the events we are going through at this day and age. The government’s unwillingness to listen to the people during the catastrophe of Vietnam. The silencing of youth protestors leaving four students dead at Kent, Ohio.
The Nashville Tennessean did not cover this and chose not to have a synopsis of the rally in the Sunday paper the following day. Why?
The media doesn’t want you to know of this caliber of leader, and is only promoting candidates with the most bang for the advertising buck.
Why would you vote for someone who spends hundreds of millions of dollars on advertising when we have a dwindling health care and Social Security system, and who continually turns their back on illegal immigration with no real solution besides a wall made of money?
After two terms of Bush, I will admit, under any other circumstance I need to have my head checked, but next year I might just be willing to support a Republican from Texas.

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