| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 6/14/2008 10:03:50 AM | Dear Supporter,
These past 17 months have been among the most exciting and eventful of my life.
Together you and I delivered a message of freedom the likes of which American politics
had not seen in decades. I wasn't sure the country was ready for it. But it was a message,
I discovered, that many Americans had been waiting for a long time to hear.
I have been blessed with the most informed, well read, and enthusiastic supporters of any
presidential campaign. Your extraordinary efforts in organizing and fundraising grabbed
the attention of millions of Americans and shocked just about everyone in politics and
the media. I still cannot get over all the fantastic work you did.
Something of great significance has just occurred in our country's history.
With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end. But the larger
campaign for freedom is just getting started. Therefore, I am happy to announce the
official launch of the Ron Paul Campaign for Liberty.
http://www.campaignforliberty.com
The work of the Campaign for Liberty will take many forms. We will educate our fellow
Americans in freedom, sound money, non-interventionism, and free markets. We'll have
our own commentaries and videos on the news of the day. I'll work with friends I respect
to design materials for homeschoolers.
Politically, we'll expand the great work of our precinct leader program. We'll make our
presence felt at every level of government, where just a few people with our level of
enthusiasm can make a world of difference. We'll keep an eye on Congress and lobby
against legislation that threatens us. We'll identify and support political candidates who
champion our great ideas against the empty suits the party establishments offer the
public.
We will be a permanent presence on the American political landscape. That I promise
you. We're not about to let all this good work die. To the contrary, with your help we're
going to make it grow - by leaps and bounds.
This is the most ambitious venture of my political career, and I think it can achieve great
things. But I can't do this alone. I need you to help me. I need your energy, your
creativity, your ideas, and your dedication.
People frustrated with our political system often wonder what they can do. I have
founded this organization to answer that question, to give people the opportunity to do
something that really makes a difference in the fight for freedom. Please join me by
becoming a member of the Campaign for Liberty. Our goal is 100,000 members by
September. Can we reach it?
Our campaign netted 1.1 million votes in the primaries of a shrinking Republican Party.
Millions more support us. I need you to help me reach them - and to keep making new
converts to the cause. What a force we can be, if only we rise to the occasion.
Now what about the Republican Convention in St. Paul? Our delegates will attend, of
course, and I expect our contingent to have a visible presence there. Without disruption,
we will do whatever we can to influence the party and its platform, and return the GOP to
its limited-government roots. This is very important.
This brings me to my second announcement. I invite you to join us at Williams Arena at
the University of Minnesota on Tuesday, September 2nd, for a grand rally. We intend to
draw over 11,000 people. We'll have live music and entertainment, and special guests. I'll
address you all as well. A massive rally will generate still more interest in our ideas. And
what a great time it will be.
Remember that it was Senator Robert Taft, who shared our views, who was called Mr.
Republican. But we are not merely the Republican Party's past. If the enthusiasm of
young people for our campaign is any indication, we are also its future.
Right now I will need your patience and input as we develop our program and assemble
just the right team of individuals. But it is my intention to launch the Campaign for
Liberty in its full capacity at our rally in Minneapolis this September.
Over the past week we've learned that the Democratic presidential nominee, supposedly
an antiwar candidate, is committed to the same rhetoric, the same propaganda, and the
same aggressive intentions toward Iran as the Bush administration. As usual, the major
parties refuse to offer Americans a real choice.
The Campaign for Liberty will lay the groundwork for a different America, the kind of
America you and I, and millions of our fellow countrymen, want to inhabit.
"Dr. Paul cured my apathy," a popular campaign sign read. Others said our campaign
cured their cynicism. We have now reached a moment of great moral decision: will we let
ourselves retreat into apathy and cynicism once again, or will we dig in for the long haul
and fight all the harder? Will we retire from the scene quietly, or will we give the
establishment the fight of its life?
"In the final analysis," I wrote in my new book The Revolution: A Manifesto, "the last line
of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves.
If thepeople want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state
apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars,
destroys the value of their dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how
indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop
them."
The time has come to act on these words. May future generations look back on our work
and say that these were men and women who, in a moment of great crisis, stood up to the
politicians, the opinion-molders, and the establishment, and saved their country.
Join us, and be a part of it.
For liberty,
Ron Paul
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 6/14/2008 10:05:51 AM | I love it. In about 24 hours, Dr. Paul already has 43,599 people
and counting signed up for his new Campaign For Liberty. He is
asking for 100,000 people to be signed up by September.
I think he'd better change that figure to 1,000,000. It does my
heart good to see so many people in this country finally WAKING UP!
Dayna
http://www.campaignforliberty.com | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/3/2008 10:46:08 AM | Ron Paul: Something Big is Going On
Posted July 2nd, 2008 by xntryk1
http://www.campaignforlib...
This entry was posted on Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Something Big is Going On
The following statement is written by Congressman Paul about the pending financial disaster. He will introduce this statement as a special order and insert it into the Congressional Record next week. Fortunately, we have the opportunity to debut it first on the Campaign for Liberty blog. It reads as follows:
I have, for the past 35 years, expressed my grave concern for the future of America. The course we have taken over the past century has threatened our liberties, security and prosperity. In spite of these long-held concerns, I have days—growing more frequent all the time—when I’m convinced the time is now upon us that some Big Events are about to occur. These fast-approaching events will not go unnoticed. They will affect all of us. They will not be limited to just some areas of our country. The world economy and political system will share in the chaos about to be unleashed.
Though the world has long suffered from the senselessness of wars that should have been avoided, my greatest fear is that the course on which we find ourselves will bring even greater conflict and economic suffering to the innocent people of the world—unless we quickly change our ways.
America, with her traditions of free markets and property rights, led the way toward great wealth and progress throughout the world as well as at home. Since we have lost our confidence in the principles of liberty, self reliance, hard work and frugality, and instead took on empire building, financed through inflation and debt, all this has changed. This is indeed frightening and an historic event.
The problem we face is not new in history. Authoritarianism has been around a long time. For centuries, inflation and debt have been used by tyrants to hold power, promote aggression, and provide “bread and circuses” for the people. The notion that a country can afford “guns and butter” with no significant penalty existed even before the 1960s when it became a popular slogan. It was then, though, we were told the Vietnam War and a massive expansion of the welfare state were not problems. The seventies proved that assumption wrong.
Today things are different from even ancient times or the 1970s. There is something to the argument that we are now a global economy. The world has more people and is more integrated due to modern technology, communications, and travel. If modern technology had been used to promote the ideas of liberty, free markets, sound money and trade, it would have ushered in a new golden age—a globalism we could accept.
Instead, the wealth and freedom we now enjoy are shrinking and rest upon a fragile philosophic infrastructure. It is not unlike the levies and bridges in our own country that our system of war and welfare has caused us to ignore.
I’m fearful that my concerns have been legitimate and may even be worse than I first thought. They are now at our doorstep. Time is short for making a course correction before this grand experiment in liberty goes into deep hibernation.
There are reasons to believe this coming crisis is different and bigger than the world has ever experienced. Instead of using globalism in a positive fashion, it’s been used to globalize all of the mistakes of the politicians, bureaucrats and central bankers.
Being an unchallenged sole superpower was never accepted by us with a sense of humility and respect. Our arrogance and aggressiveness have been used to promote a world empire backed by the most powerful army of history. This type of globalist intervention creates problems for all citizens of the world and fails to contribute to the well-being of the world’s populations. Just think how our personal liberties have been trashed here at home in the last decade.
The financial crisis, still in its early stages, is apparent to everyone: gasoline prices over $4 a gallon; skyrocketing education and medical-care costs; the collapse of the housing bubble; the bursting of the NASDAQ bubble; stockmarkets plunging; unemployment rising;, massive underemployment; excessive government debt; and unmanageable personal debt. Little doubt exists as to whether we’ll get stagflation. The question that will soon be asked is: When will the stagflation become an inflationary depression?
There are various reasons that the world economy has been globalized and the problems we face are worldwide. We cannot understand what we’re facing without understanding fiat money and the long-developing dollar bubble.
There were several stages. From the inception of the Federal Reserve System in 1913 to 1933, the Central Bank established itself as the official dollar manager. By 1933, Americans could no longer own gold, thus removing restraint on the Federal Reserve to inflate for war and welfare.
By 1945, further restraints were removed by creating the Bretton-Woods Monetary System making the dollar the reserve currency of the world. This system lasted up until 1971. During the period between 1945 and 1971, some restraints on the Fed remained in place. Foreigners, but not Americans, could convert dollars to gold at $35 an ounce. Due to the excessive dollars being created, that system came to an end in 1971.
It’s the post Bretton-Woods system that was responsible for globalizing inflation and markets and for generating a gigantic worldwide dollar bubble. That bubble is now bursting, and we’re seeing what it’s like to suffer the consequences of the many previous economic errors.
Ironically in these past 35 years, we have benefited from this very flawed system. Because the world accepted dollars as if they were gold, we only had to counterfeit more dollars, spend them overseas (indirectly encouraging our jobs to go overseas as well) and enjoy unearned prosperity. Those who took our dollars and gave us goods and services were only too anxious to loan those dollars back to us. This allowed us to export our inflation and delay the consequences we now are starting to see.
But it was never destined to last, and now we have to pay the piper. Our huge foreign debt must be paid or liquidated. Our entitlements are coming due just as the world has become more reluctant to hold dollars. The consequence of that decision is price inflation in this country—and that’s what we are witnessing today. Already price inflation overseas is even higher than here at home as a consequence of foreign central bank’s willingness to monetize our debt.
Printing dollars over long periods of time may not immediately push prices up–yet in time it always does. Now we’re seeing catch-up for past inflating of the monetary supply. As bad as it is today with $4 a gallon gasoline, this is just the beginning. It’s a gross distraction to hound away at “drill, drill, drill” as a solution to the dollar crisis and high gasoline prices. Its okay to let the market increase supplies and drill, but that issue is a gross distraction from the sins of deficits and Federal Reserve monetary shenanigans.
This bubble is different and bigger for another reason. The central banks of the world secretly collude to centrally plan the world economy. I’m convinced that agreements among central banks to “monetize” U.S. debt these past 15 years have existed, although secretly and out of the reach of any oversight of anyone—especially the U.S. Congress that doesn’t care, or just flat doesn’t understand. As this “gift” to us comes to an end, our problems worsen. The central banks and the various governments are very powerful, but eventually the markets overwhelm when the people who get stuck holding the bag (of bad dollars) catch on and spend the dollars into the economy with emotional zeal, thus igniting inflationary fever.
This time—since there are so many dollars and so many countries involved—the Fed has been able to “paper” over every approaching crisis for the past 15 years, especially with Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, which has allowed the bubble to become history’s greatest.
The mistakes made with excessive credit at artificially low rates are huge, and the market is demanding a correction. This involves excessive debt, misdirected investments, over-investments, and all the other problems caused by the government when spending the money they should never have had. Foreign militarism, welfare handouts and $80 trillion entitlement promises are all coming to an end. We don’t have the money or the wealth-creating capacity to catch up and care for all the needs that now exist because we rejected the market economy, sound money, self reliance and the principles of liberty.
Since the correction of all this misallocation of resources is necessary and must come, one can look for some good that may come as this “Big Event” unfolds.
There are two choices that people can make. The one choice that is unavailable to us is to limp along with the status quo and prop up the system with more debt, inflation and lies. That won’t happen.
One of the two choices, and the one chosen so often by government in the past is that of rejecting the principles of liberty and resorting to even bigger and more authoritarian government. Some argue that giving dictatorial powers to the President, just as we have allowed him to run the American empire, is what we should do. That’s the great danger, and in this post-911 atmosphere, too many Americans are seeking safety over freedom. We have lost too many of our personal liberties already. Real fear of economic collapse could prompt central planners to act to such a degree that the New Deal of the 30’s might look like Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence.
The more the government is allowed to do in taking over and running the economy, the deeper the depression gets and the longer it lasts. That was the story of the 30ss and the early 40s, and the same mistakes are likely to be made again if we do not wake up.
But the good news is that it need not be so bad if we do the right thing. I saw “Something Big” happening in the past 18 months on the campaign trail. I was encouraged that we are capable of waking up and doing the right thing. I have literally met thousands of high school and college kids who are quite willing to accept the challenge and responsibility of a free society and reject the cradle-to-grave welfare that is promised them by so many do-good politicians.
If more hear the message of liberty, more will join in this effort. The failure of our foreign policy, welfare system, and monetary policies and virtually all government solutions are so readily apparent, it doesn’t take that much convincing. But the positive message of how freedom works and why it’s possible is what is urgently needed.
One of the best parts of accepting self reliance in a free society is that true personal satisfaction with one’s own life can be achieved. This doesn’t happen when the government assumes the role of guardian, parent or provider, because it eliminates a sense of pride. But the real problem is the government can’t provide the safety and economic security that it claims. The so-called good that government claims it can deliver is always achieved at the expense of someone else’s freedom. It’s a failed system and the young people know it.
Restoring a free society doesn’t eliminate the need to get our house in order and to pay for the extravagant spending. But the pain would not be long-lasting if we did the right things, and best of all the empire would have to end for financial reasons. Our wars would stop, the attack on civil liberties would cease, and prosperity would return. The choices are clear: it shouldn’t be difficult, but the big event now unfolding gives us a great opportunity to reverse the tide and resume the truly great American Revolution started in 1776. Opportunity knocks in spite of the urgency and the dangers we face.
Let’s make “Something Big is Happening” be the discovery that freedom works and is popular and the big economic and political event we’re witnessing is a blessing in disguise. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/3/2008 11:43:01 AM | | I think everyone should donate to Bob Barr's candidacy. If he gets at least 5% of the vote this november, then Ron Paul could run as a third party candidate on 2012 and receive matching funds. So, if you don't like McSame or Obama, vote for Barr, it could lead to a real third party. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/5/2008 1:23:09 PM |
I'm not sure what the point is, is this just a Ron Paul informercial?
The point is that there are plenty people waking up to the abuses of power within our government and that abuse of power does not discriminate across political faux partisanship. Thank goodness the Ron Paul movement is keeping a watchful eye and sounding the alarms hidden by mainstream media .It's fantastic to see the campaign for liberty is alive & well and momentum is growing.
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/5/2008 4:21:47 PM | I'm curious as to why people who support Ron Paul and realize the folly of the GOP party and their actions to help the wealthy and big business; but these Ron Paul supporters would not support the Democratic Party. After all, the Democratic party focuses on Jobs and helping the middle class. I think the Dems are less evil than the GOP. My theory is that if the govt led by the GOP is going to screw the middle class anyways, then the middle class should at least try to obtain benefits that the Dem party will give them.
I just think it might not be a good idea to "destroy the govt" that Ron Paul advocates when there are plenty of programs that help the middle class get education and health care, etc. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 1:40:19 AM |
I just think it might not be a good idea to "destroy the govt" that Ron Paul advocates when there are plenty of programs that help the middle class get education and health care, etc.
Destroy the govt.? I don't know what you've been listening to (sounds like controlled media) - but limited govt. is not the same as destroying the govt., nor is putting the power back in the hands of the people and the states considered destroying the govt.
And somehow you appear to believe the dems take no part in supporting corporate profiteering, taxing the shit out of the middle class, are immune to greed, scandals and corruption?
After all, the Democratic party focuses on Jobs and helping the middle class. I think the Dems are less evil than the GOP.
I myself don't believe in voting the party, only the issues. As far as I'm concerned partisanship is hoax and people who are unwaivering supporters of either party without researching the issues of the candidates have fallen asleep at the wheel and open themselves up to a group of thugs who could give a rat's ass about the bests interests of the people. Our dear Bill Clinton did a great job pushing NAFTA through. I remind you he was the president that signed NAFTA into law thereby kissing the asses of the neocons and reinforcing my thoughts that the lines have become blurred and the ultimate goals are one in the same.
I'd take Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinch anyday before I'd give a vote to a neocon or neocrat who dances around the real issues. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 3:39:42 AM | Watching Ron Paul in debates with the other republicans was so telling. Ron Paul was nothing but logic point after logic point and really made the other candidates look bad. The republican party wouldn't nominate him because they cant use him as a figure head and control him. He doesn't pander to them and shows alot of character standing up for the constitution and true conservatives.
Something that stood out to me in one debate was John McCain saying he only agreed with Ron Paul on ONE thing and that was cutting spending. That in itself is enough for me not to vote for John McCain. Ron Paul is a patriot and this country and especially the republican party fell short by nominating John McCain instead. I would absolutely have voted for Ron Paul. Ron Paul was the only republican who was against the Iraq war and is very much about diplomacy and taking care of our own country. He represents true conservative values and all the republicans that mocked him and disrespected him are the reason the party is going down hill. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 7:03:15 AM | It saddens me to see what decades of propaganda and media has done to the minds of people. We've had several generations grow up being spoon fed little lies here and there, mixed with truth. All the while they keep on raising the heat and adding more lies to the mix. A story about a frog in a pot comes to mind...
It's little wonder we hear statements from people saying "Ron Paul is just trying to bring attention to himself". Or that the message of liberty is an old and outdated notion. It's not about bringing attention to himself, but about bringing attention to the "message"! Anyone who has studied history knows that the cause of liberty is as old as history itself. People tend to forget times of trouble when they are coddled and comfy or told they'll be taken care of when they hear of trouble not far off. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. And I'm not talking about keeping up with sports stats.
Ron Paul has created a grass-roots lobby with the purpose of promoting and defending the great American principles of individual liberty, constitutional government, sound money, free markets, and a non-interventionist foreign policy, by means of educational and political activity.
I'm up for that. :) While we're at it, there are other groups out there fighting along with Ron Paul for the cause of Liberty:
DownsizeDC.org
FreeStateProject.org
This isn't "status quo" | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 10:34:20 AM | I'm curious as to why people who support Ron Paul and realize the folly of the GOP party and their actions to help the wealthy and big business; but these Ron Paul supporters would not support the Democratic Party.
Because the two party system is a joke. There both the same.
After all, the Democratic party focuses on Jobs and helping the middle class.
Yeah......Sure they do.
Taxing the middle class into oblivion isn't helping it. It is destroying it.
I think the Dems are less evil than the GOP.
So there still evil right?
Here is a fast fact for you. You can't get a little drunk. And you can't get a little pregnant.
Evil is evil.
My theory is that if the govt led by the GOP is going to screw the middle class anyways,
With the Neocons in charge, I do agree. But it's the same thing with the liberals. It just comes under a different banner.
then the middle class should at least try to obtain benefits that the Dem party will give them.
What benefits?
I just think it might not be a good idea to "destroy the govt" that Ron Paul advocates when there are plenty of programs that help the middle class get education and health care, etc.
Ron Paul supporters don't want to destroy the government. We just want it out of our lives.
And by using these programs that you want will do the opposite.
O, and to the person who talked about him in 2012. He will be 77 then. So that is out of the question. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 2:37:34 PM | I don't mind listening to Ron talk and it is a bit refreshing, but there is something different of talking the talk and actually carrying out these plans and take action. Instead of being a lowly congressman, he needs to step up and try to get things done if he really wants to see his vision enacted. Maybe he should try running for governor or senator. A guy like Ralph Nadar got a lot accomplished even when he wasn't in govt.
I don't have a problem with people having more freedom, but you should recognize that you have the freedom to fail and that is something that Republicans value - the freedom to fail or succeed at your own actions. Thereby, the freedom that libertarians want is also the freedom to fail.
We do live in a 2 party system and for now politicians need to work in that system if they ever want to get anything directly done.
I'm curious how libertarians want the govt out of their lives. Does it just mean less taxes? Do you own a small business and want more tax breaks and credits? Just because we get "freedom" doesn't mean everyone will get rich because there is less taxes. It takes education and a lot of luck and timing. The college education that you get might be provided by Federal loans, I think that is something worth keeping. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 10:29:13 PM |
I don't mind listening to Ron talk and it is a bit refreshing, but there is something different of talking the talk and actually carrying out these plans and take action.
Not easy tasks to do but the job lies with the American people first and foremost.
When people stop buying into the circus, the political dog and pony show, they may wake up and realize that the candidates who had your bests interests in mind were silenced.
What walk did you walk? The campaign for liberty has an open door and the message is one you've heard before: What are YOU willing to do for YOUR country? I think it's time people decide to save it from the direction it's heading. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/6/2008 10:53:32 PM | | brava One blend nicely worded ! We were friends once when the powers that be chose to be afariad of the triple threat that they knew they couldn't suppress. let the truth be revealed and soon the madness will be exposed. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/7/2008 12:00:14 AM | | In the same manner that Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan were snuffed on the elections of 2000, so will Ron Paul. Nader did not hook-up with Paul since Paul is Republican and has always been part of the establishment. All his talk has been that, talk. Nader has been a doer while Paul was part of the establishment. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/7/2008 7:56:39 AM | Why would RP and Nader "hook up" unless it was to form a coalition to allow all candidates besides the mainstream to be heard? While both seem to understand what's wrong with government, they have entirely different focus on approaching the issues and differing means toward different ends.
BUT.... we'd be better off with either who do understand government's true place in our nation and that we need to get back to that as opposed to the exclusive "profit and power for some" machine we have in place now. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/9/2008 10:27:36 PM | For folks wanting to get actively involved and do something, there's a big project underway in New Hampshire called the Free State Project at freestateproject.org We already have 540 activists--including many Ron Paul supporters--with more moving in every week. In addition to the successful First 1,000 pledge, we now have a Next 1,000 pledge up at pledgebank.com/Next1000 aimed at getting another thousand activists here by September of 2011, before the next presidential primary.
As Congressman Paul has proposed, we're working at the state and local level to get as many people involved as possible to help get things turned around. This is the kind of thing that we need to be doing in all 50 states, but the most active effort is here in New Hampshire. | |
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| Message from Dr. Ron Paul - Campaign For Liberty
Posted: 7/10/2008 12:32:05 PM | It is interesting to note, that John McCain, himself said of Ron Paul..."He is the most honest man in congress." But from what I can tell neither party see any value in honesty or they would all throw their support behind this man. JMO
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