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By CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL Published: July 22, 2007 Whipping westward across Manhattan in a limousine sent by Comedy Central’s “Daily Show,” Ron Paul, the 10-term Texas congressman and long-shot Republican presidential candidate, is being briefed. Paul has only the most tenuous familiarity with Comedy Central. He has never heard of “The Daily Show.” His press secretary, Jesse Benton, is trying to explain who its host, Jon Stewart, is. “He’s an affable gentleman,” Benton says, “and he’s very smart. What I’m getting from the pre-interview is, he’s sympathetic.” Skip to next paragraph  Brent Humphreys Dick Cheney and the former Bush advisers Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle, for the debacle. On the assumption that a bad situation could get worse if the war spreads into Iran, he has a simple plan. It is: “Just leave.” During a May debate in South Carolina, he suggested the 9/11 attacks could be attributed to United States policy. “Have you ever read about the reasons they attacked us?” he asked, referring to one of Osama bin Laden’s communiqués. “They attack us because we’ve been over there. We’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years.” Rudolph Giuliani reacted by demanding a retraction, drawing gales of applause from the audience. But the incident helped Paul too. Overnight, he became the country’s most conspicuous antiwar Republican. Paul’s opposition to the war in Iraq did not come out of nowhere. He was against the first gulf war, the war in Kosovo and the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which he called a “declaration of virtual war.” Although he voted after Sept. 11 to approve the use of force in Afghanistan and spend $40 billion in emergency appropriations, he has sounded less thrilled with those votes as time has passed. “I voted for the authority and the money,” he now says. “I thought it was misused.” There is something homespun about Paul, reminiscent of “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.” He communicates with his constituents through birthday cards, August barbecues and the cookbooks his wife puts together every election season, which mix photos of grandchildren, Gospel passages and neighbors’ recipes for Velveeta cheese fudge and Cherry Coke salad. He is listed in the phone book, and his constituents call him at home. But there is also something cosmopolitan and radical about him; his speeches can bring to mind the World Social Forum or the French international-affairs periodical Le Monde Diplomatique. Paul is surely the only congressman who would cite the assertion of the left-leaning Chennai-based daily The Hindu that “the world is being asked today, in reality, to side with the U.S. as it seeks to strengthen its economic hegemony.” The word “empire” crops up a lot in his speeches. This side of Paul has made him the candidate of many people, on both the right and the left, who hope that something more consequential than a mere change of party will come out of the 2008 elections. He is particularly popular among the young and the wired. Except for Barack Obama, he is the most-viewed candidate on YouTube. He is the most “friended” Republican on MySpace.com. Paul understands that his chances of winning the presidency are infinitesimally slim. He is simultaneously planning his next Congressional race. But in Paul’s idea of politics, spreading a message has always been just as important as seizing office. “Politicians don’t amount to much,” he says, “but ideas do.” Although he is still in the low single digits in polls, he says he has raised $2.4 million in the second quarter, enough to broaden the four-state campaign he originally planned into a national one. Paul represents a different Republican Party from the one that Iraq, deficits and corruption have soured the country on. In late June, despite a life of antitax agitation and churchgoing, he was excluded from a Republican forum sponsored by Iowa antitax and Christian groups. His school of Republicanism, which had its last serious national airing in the Goldwater campaign of 1964, stands for a certain idea of the Constitution — the idea that much of the power asserted by modern presidents has been usurped from Congress, and that much of the power asserted by Congress has been usurped from the states. Though Paul acknowledges flaws in both the Constitution (it included slavery) and the Bill of Rights (it doesn’t go far enough), he still thinks a comprehensive array of positions can be drawn from them: Against gun control. For the sovereignty of states. And against foreign-policy adventures. Paul was the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate in 1988. But his is a less exuberant libertarianism than you find, say, in the pages of Reason magazine. LINK
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He is against income tax, but a geometric income tax is all we've had to combat greed since Churches quit really preaching against it. I like him, but he has not been as tough as before in his stance to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and deport illegals. I was for Tancredo more, then Ron Paul, and now back to Tancredo more. I think the war of invasion and greedy corruption right here in this country is THE most important issue. Ron Paul, Tancredo and Duncan Hunter are the only candidates so far who have spoken about enforcing the Constitution's Article 4 Section IV, and Sec8USC1324-5.
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moguitar wrote: He is against income tax, but a geometric income tax is all we've had to combat greed since Churches quit really preaching against it. I like him, but he has not been as tough as before in his stance to secure our borders, enforce our laws, and deport illegals. I was for Tancredo more, then Ron Paul, and now back to Tancredo more. I think the war of invasion and greedy corruption right here in this country is THE most important issue. Ron Paul, Tancredo and Duncan Hunter are the only candidates so far who have spoken about enforcing the Constitution's Article 4 Section IV, and Sec8USC1324-5. I didn't much hear what Tancredo had to say, or remember rather, but I did somewhat like what Duncan Hunter said about the borders... but Ron Paul still has the best stance there... There will ALWAYS be ways to get across the border, and its too widespread of a problem to deal with very easily... the only way to combat it is to remove our welfare system! It is the biggest blight on America, remove it or reform it! The mosquitos will come if there is blood to suck! If they can leech off of our welfare system, they WILL find a way over here! That is what Ron Paul has suggested, and its really the only way.
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