Did you vote in the Tennessee State Presidential Primary on Feb. 5? Did you want the government’s imperialistic wars for oil to end? Did you want a serious plan for curbing amnesty for illegal aliens? Did you want the government to quit deficit spending your children and grandchildren’s futures away? Did you want to ensure your right to keep and bear arms? Did you want to forever silence the threat of a National I.D. card?
Did you vote for Ron Paul?
My guess is “no” for the latter. Paul gathered just 1,050 votes on Super Tuesday in Washington County with more than 17,000 people voting.
This is a vocal minority at best, one might suggest.
Apparently, his more than 20-year completely consistent voting record on the above mentioned issues just wasn’t enough. Apparently, delivering more than 4,000 babies into the world as an OB/GYN didn’t merit his pro-family, pro-life message being heard. Apparently, hundreds of thousands of supporters donating $23 million to his campaign last quarter, thousands of Internet videos, signs and pamphlets just wasn’t enough to get the message of individualism and liberty to penetrate the walls the “old media” has built to shelter its consumers.
Despite Obama’s promises of “change,” the take-home message from all the candidates, besides Ron Paul, is truly “More of the same!” The only “change” you’ll find from the Democrats comes from when they pander to different crowds, changing their message to fit the ethnicity, gender, religion or other overt group-identifier of the audience at hand.
Ron Paul, however, does not have to pander, spin or deceive. The message he offers to veterans is the same straight-forward message he offers gays and lesbians, single moms, doctors, police and college kids.
The message? Follow the constitution and respect the given rights of the individual over the group. Get the federal government out of your life because they always, always muck up everything we trust them to do. Instead we should trust ourselves and govern locally first.
Ron Paul speaks fiercely and critically of America’s foreign policy, monetary policy, the IRS and taxes, the war on drugs, amnesty for illegal immigrants, Roe v. Wade, Internet regulation, gun bans, low quality veterans’ treatment and collectivism.
That he readily and honestly takes disciplined aim at so many sacred cows may seem radical to some, but to me, it’s the stuff legends are made of. Meanwhile, liberals fill the air with empty promises of handouts and espouse the “right to health care” and “the right to a job.”
At the same time, the gutted and confused GOP ridicules Ron Paul and affirm (only to themselves) his un-electability. In 1711, Jonathan Swift wrote: “When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.”
On Feb. 11 in an Internet video, Paul called for a “grand march” on Washington, D.C. In addition to this, on April 30 his new book “The Revolution: A Manifesto” is set to sell out nationwide. Yes, he has his vocal, determined minority and their message is this: The Ron Paul Republicans will continue to donate to the campaign, gleefully parting with the last of their worthless, fiat money just to spread the message of freedom, prosperity, and peace to the rest of the country.
They’ll brave the worst days of winter, the police harassment and the verbal abuse from every direction to stand on the street corners at all hours, trumpheting the non-violent, peaceful revolution. They’ll man the phones and the Internet. They’ll canvass the subdivisions, apartments, and farms.
Ron Paul’s Washington County, Tenn., supporters will happily “waste” their votes for him again in November.
Perhaps by then, fed up with the wars, recession, and continued debasement of our government, the rest of the GOP (and America) will have finally answered the question for themselves: “Who is Ron Paul?

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