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Title: Ron Paul, Iowa and the Presididency
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URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen ... l-iowa-and-the-pr_b_60048.html
Published: Aug 12, 2007
Author: Karen Kwiatkowski
Post Date: 2007-08-12 06:44:12 by Zoroaster
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Views: 1957
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The Huffington Post Your Account | August 12, 2007Home Politics Media Business Entertainment Living Now All Blogs All News Home > The Blogs > Karen Kwiatkowski Karen Kwiatkowski| BIO | I'M A FAN OF THIS BLOGGER Ron Paul, Iowa and the Presidency Posted August 11, 2007 | 02:30 PM (EST) Read More: Breaking Politics News, Ron Paul, Bill Clinton, Fred Thompson, John McCain, Barack Obama, Mike Gravel, Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Republican Party, U.S. Democratic Party, Katie Couric A lot of people are frightened of Dr. Ron Paul's possible presidency. They're scared to talk about it, to consider it, or recognize its possibility. Like so many frightened people, they are putting their heads in the sand, and hoping it will all just go away. Email Print Comment Give us a snarky political professional like Guiliani or Clinton, or a nicely coiffed white family man like Romney or Edwards. Give us a nice neoconservative grandpa like Fred Thompson, or a grouchy neoconservative grandpa like McCain. Give us an Obama -- for a change of pace in everything but currently established domestic and foreign policies. But by golly, don't dare threaten the establishment with Jeffersonian democratic vision and Washingtonian non-interventionism. Don't boldly challenge the NYC/DC axis of politics with sheer constitutionalism. Better yet, don't remind us that the American president is not the commander-in-chief of everybody but a narrowly defined and legally constrained institution that is only equal -- and certainly subject -- to our judicial and legislative bodies. Ron Paul, Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich are the only candidates who seem to understand this. They are also the only candidates who will quickly, if not immediately, end the U.S. occupation of Iraq. Wait a sec -- I mean end it peacefully. Ultimately, Iraqis and their supporters around the world will bring down the American occupation -- but they will do so limb by limb, heart by heart, and soul by soul. They will kill thousands of us and themselves before it reaches that inevitable point of non-occupation and honest political independence. Only Paul and two underfunded Democratic contenders offer wisdom to Americans across the nation who are hungry for wisdom, at least in foreign policy. However -- it is in domestic policy where Ron Paul completes the package. Unlike the democratic longshots, and the candidacy of GuiliClintoRomnObamThomEdwaCain, Ron Paul is about real freedom. Freedom to choose, freedom to live, freedom to decide for ourselves. He offers freedom from excessive government mandates, excessive rules and regulations, excessive confiscation of our life and property. In this, Paul is the only real conservative in the group, and yes, perhaps the only radical. Social planners of all sorts -- some more Marxist in orientation, others more nationalist -- present themselves as the American presidential front runners. The media focuses cameras on their faces, murmurs over their every word, and wonders if America and the world will really like them as Most Supreme Leader of the World. Ron Paul, humbly and simply, honors the Constitution -- and perhaps this makes him boring to mainstream media. When asked recently how he would use the great power of the executive office, circa 2009, Paul indicated he'd use his power to restrain the natural temptation to abuse that mostly unconstitutional concentration of power. He'd then work to restore a constitutionally established presidency -- in part by revoking the many executive orders to which we have all become inured. Ron Paul may not excite the mainstream press, establishment policy cheerleaders, big investors in government programs, or the military-industrial complex. But Ron Paul really excites a whole heck of a lot of regular people -- and puts the scare in the rest of them. Ron's latest odds in the Iowa Straw poll are 8 to 1 -- and the big Republican candidates who represent all-spending, all-war, all-the-time are worried. So worried, many of them aren't even coming to Iowa. Those who wish to discredit Ron Paul as a viable candidate don't point out his popularity among traditional Republicans, Democrats and Independents. They don't point out that his "Don't Tread on Me" libertarian streak is shared by half the adults in this country, and three quarters of the teenagers. They ignore his grass roots support, the money and the passion that flows steadily into his campaign. The Republican Party, its Democratic emulators, and mainstream media are living dinosaurs. All refuse to pull their heads out of the sand and face the issues that really touch Americans, and to deliver what Americans really want for themselves, their families and their government. And unlike in previous elections, nobody in American really, truly, cares what mainstream media thinks. It's not that Katie Couric and her ilk aren't nice people. It's just that times have changed. These dinosaurs -- and the theropods that report the news -- are increasingly irrelevant. I believe that the other contenders for the Presidency will soon begin to adopt Paul's message and attempt to promote his agenda of freedom and peace, or they will become politically extinct. As a peace and freedom-loving American, I can't wait.
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#1. To: Zoroaster (#0)
Amen!
If Paul and his supporters have the audacity to blame his 4th place finish on the Dieibolt voting machines, you can bet the Electric Jew will have a field day labeling Paul a conspiracy kook.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
The real news is all the tickets shoved in the hands of Romney supporters but failed to show up. No vote fraud, just no voters.
He was 5th place.. I didnt expect him to win by any means but it's a tad suspicious when they said they had issues with the voting machines and then had to recount the votes.. if nothing else it reveals that the machines arent trustworthy..
It seems to me like the "cat and mouse" game: the m edia ready to pounce.
Life is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think.
..to sum it up I have no faith in voting machines.. plus those who counted the paper ballots (which is unusual w/voting machines) were part of the Romney campaign.. Romney Leadership Team Member Overseeing Straw Poll By Birdlady 09 Aug 2007 The Iowa GOP is facing possible suit over their use of the same Diebold machines that were just de-certified. They are claiming of course, that there is nothing to worry about since the voting procedure will be conducted with the assistance and oversight of the Story County Auditor's Office. If we look here, we see the Story County Auditor is Mary Mosiman. Mary Mosiman also happens to be on Mitt Romney's "Romney for President [Story County] Leadership Team"... It's also worth noting that according to this article, Romney's Commonwealth PAC gave State Auditor David A. Vaudt $1,000 in 2004.
you can bet that they'll be no punishment to Romney for this too.
Precisely why Hillary Clinton will be the next President of the United States...there is NO enthusiasm for the 'top-tier' Republicans...none. Romney, Thompson, Guiliani = business as usual = SSDD. If it is Hillary vs. any of those three; I'll be sitting home on election day. This nation deserves her.
Amen.
..to sum it up I have no faith in voting machines.. plus those who counted the paper ballots (which is unusual w/voting machines) were part of the Romney campaign.. Fox News has been reporting all morning that a campaign bought a lot of tickets that were not used...they have yet to say which campaign. They also said if you came you could have walked away with "laundry basket" of merch, foam fingers, signs, tee shirts ect....they called it competitive hospitality! (sounds like an oxymoron to me) The machines are not trustworthy...they should be done away with Period Dot the end!
Ron Paul 2008
the more they pull this voting manipulation and fraud, the more americans are going to see it and realize what a total fraud the whole system is...not that i expect anything of significance to be done about it. where's V when we need him?
Agreed... Do you see any significance in that BOTH parties are for them???
See my #12.
True, it's too late for anything to be done with Diebold in '08. The Dems shot down the latest legislation to cancel their contracts. "$500,000 sounds very expensive." It's all being done for Hillary, and Paul is the only candidate with a chance to beat her.
Indeed... American voters that are not asleep have been swindled by both parties which should indicate to thinking men that just PERHAPS there is only one party.
i came to this realization in 2000.
I posted here a few days ago that I had asked a friend if he would vote for Paul and his answer was..."I am a democrat".
Karen K bump!
did you ask him what exactly is that? ;)
No. I have heard the usual litany of why people are dems or pubs too many times for too long.
from http://www.ronpaul2008.com "Store" then "more"... Dan Balz's front-page article in today's Washington Post on the Iowa straw poll doesn't even mention Ron Paul, unless I missed it. The article mentions several other candidates who did worse than Paul in the poll: Tommy Thompson (who was sixth, right behind Paul,) McCain, Giuliani, and Fred Thompson. It also mentions all four who finished ahead of Paul. But no Paul.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Typical. Tommy Thompson said he would drop out of the race if he did not place well. MSM is clearly afraid of Ron Paul. Laura Ingraham singled out Ron Paul in her introductions at Ames. She tried to make fun of him as an "Osama bounty hunter", and referred to Ron Paul supporters as having been let out of an "insane asylum". She also tried to deride them as the "peace train", not realizing that peace is a good.
Yep, And 'it' AIN'T going away on it's own Karen. Go Ron Go!!
I don't like the word Chipotle.
But no Paul. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJjx11mscYI Ronpauled
No doubt about it. The fix is in. Hillary 24/7 from the media. Chris Matthews does a one hour Hillary infomercial on MSNBC every night.
Not to worry though, Noel Bush will restore dignity back to the White House once Hillary is out of there.
"A functioning police state needs no police." - William S Burroughs
Thats 2 boxes of kleenex now. Excellent, so well done. Saved. Sent.
I don't like the word Chipotle.
I just knew you were gonna say that ;) Saved. Sent. good good good
So you noticed that too about Chris Matthews? What's interesting is that about 6 months ago Chris Matthews made it clear to his viewers that he has never been a Hillary fan. In the interim, Matthews must have got the word from the PTB to change his views on Hillary, because he sure has done an about-face on her as of late.
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/nbushmug1.html Hopefully, she got a clue and got a ticket out, far from her ignoble family.
He has never voted to raise taxes. He voted against the Patriot Act. He does not participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. Congressman Paul introduces numerous pieces of substantive legislation each year, probably more than any single member of Congress. From the Ron Paul website http://www.ronpaul2008.com Something else to send along with the website link.
Word went out everywhere - you can't listen to CNN without hearing about Hillary's vast experience. Experience? Being "first lady" of Arkansas? Hillary is very unpopular and the media is going its best to invent a new Hillary. I'll never vote for her, but there are a lot of guppies out there who will just because some media shill says to.
Peace Train ~ ~ ~
I don't like the word Chipotle.
Thanks Robin.. I will send as well. Getting them to listen to the video is like pulling teeth. However, I say, it's a little like a '60 Minutes' episode, but faster, maybe music. OHHHHHHHH, well, that's better. (whatever it takes)
I don't like the word Chipotle.
Great stuff - I'd not seen this one. Thank you, and forwarded.
Bet you'd love my beef tenderloin w/Mango Chipotle sauce, however.
#2. To: Zipporah (#1)
#3. To: Zoroaster (#2)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#4. To: Zoroaster (#2)
#5. To: Eoghan, Zipporah (#3)
The real news is all the tickets shoved in the hands of Romney supporters but failed to show up. No vote fraud, just no voters.
#6. To: Zoroaster (#5)
#7. To: Zipporah, Zoroaster (#6)
If we look here, we see the Story County Auditor is Mary Mosiman. Mary Mosiman also happens to be on Mitt Romney's "Romney for President [Story County] Leadership Team"... It's also worth noting that according to this article, Romney's Commonwealth PAC gave State Auditor David A. Vaudt $1,000 in 2004.
#8. To: Eoghan (#3)
The real news is all the tickets shoved in the hands of Romney supporters but failed to show up. No vote fraud, just no voters.
Remember...G-d saved more animals than people on the ark. www.siameserescue.org
#9. To: who knows what evil (#8)
This nation deserves her.
#10. To: Zipporah (#6)
The real news is all the tickets shoved in the hands of Romney supporters but failed to show up. No vote fraud, just no voters.
#11. To: who knows what evil, Cynicom, Eoghan, Zipporah (#8)
#12. To: lizza76 (#10)
The machines are not trustworthy...they should be done away with Period Dot the end!
#13. To: christine (#11)
the more they pull this voting manipulation and fraud, the more americans are going to see it and realize what a total fraud the whole system is
#14. To: Cynicom (#13)
(Edited)
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
#15. To: Eoghan (#14)
It's all being done for Hillary, and Paul is the only candidate with a chance to beat her.
#16. To: Cynicom (#12)
Do you see any significance in that BOTH parties are for them???
#17. To: christine (#16)
i came to this realization in 2000.
#18. To: Zoroaster, Dakmar, lodwick, aristeides, IndieTX, palo verde, Calamity, lizza1776, ++Karen Kwiatkowski on Ron Paul++ (#0)
A lot of people are frightened of Dr. Ron Paul's possible presidency. They're scared to talk about it, to consider it, or recognize its possibility. Like so many frightened people, they are putting their heads in the sand, and hoping it will all just go away.
#19. To: Cynicom (#17)
I posted here a few days ago that I had asked a friend if he would vote for Paul and his answer was..."I am a democrat".
#20. To: christine (#19)
did you ask him what exactly is that? ;)
#21. To: Cynicom, christine (#20)
#22. To: Zoroaster (#0)
#23. To: aristeides (#22)
The article mentions several other candidates who did worse than Paul in the poll
#24. To: robin (#18)
A lot of people are frightened of Dr. Ron Paul's possible presidency. They're scared to talk about it, to consider it, or recognize its possibility. Like so many frightened people, they are putting their heads in the sand, and hoping it will all just go away. Karen K bump!
#25. To: aristeides, Calamity, Brian S, lodwick, palo verde, IndieTX, HOUNDDAWG, wbales, Cynicom, Sodie Pop, christine, Zipporah, lizzie1776, AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt, Red Jones, Dakmar, ghostdogtxn, ... (#22)
Dan Balz's front-page article in today's Washington Post on the Iowa straw poll doesn't even mention Ron Paul, unless I missed it. The article mentions several other candidates who did worse than Paul in the poll: Tommy Thompson (who was sixth, right behind Paul,) McCain, Giuliani, and Fred Thompson. It also mentions all four who finished ahead of Paul.
#26. To: Eoghan (#14)
It's all being done for Hillary
#27. To: Arete (#26)
#28. To: robin (#25)
#29. To: Calamity (#28)
Thats 2 boxes of kleenex now.
#30. To: Arete (#26)
No doubt about it. The fix is in. Hillary 24/7 from the media. Chris Matthews does a one hour Hillary infomercial on MSNBC every night.
#31. To: Dakmar (#27)
#32. To: Calamity, lodwick, palo verde, wbales, Brian S (#28)
Brief Overview of Congressman Paul’s Record:
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
He returns a portion of his annual congressional office budget to the U.S. treasury every year.
#33. To: scrapper2 (#30)
must have got the word from the PTB
#34. To: robin (#29)
good good good
#35. To: robin (#32)
#36. To: robin (#25)
#37. To: Calamity (#34)
I don't like the word Chipotle.
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