Ron Paul is joining 2012 presidential race

Ron Paul to run in 2012

So Ron Paul has announced he is running for president. Good news. He told ABC's Good Morning America of his plans. I'd have commented earlier on this but Blogger went into the blogosphere and I've just found out it's back on earth.

The list for the Republican nomination is quite crowded with previous runners also entered, such as Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee. Although, I understand Huckabee's got a day job now that may be more lucrative than anything he's previously had. And to make matters worse, most Americans don't recognise them or even remember their names. I would have thought at least Donald Trump was a household name, but he gets less than half the voters picking him out. With that hair as well! Surely he's memorable for something? Sarah Palin doesn't do much better. It seems Americans need these people constantly in front of them, a bit like McDonald's advertising hamburgers.

It's a sorry state of affairs. But then I watch Jerry Springer, Judge Judy etc and some of the people on there are in need of remedial therapy. And they are voters too. If I think along these lines too much it might make me think democracy is a scary thing. Springer had a show with feuding hillbillies on. Then he's had fat slobs, African Americans with unique names (Chantalaya, Chantaleeza, etc), grandmothers dating teenagers (maybe twentysomethings) and each one of these is empowered to give the go ahead or not to one of these GOP hopefuls or their Democratic opponent President Obama.

It's early days. Those in the 1% recognition zone should not give up hope. I see Ron Paul isn't even getting a mention yet. Today's showing might have done something, but how many ABC viewers will claim they don't him tomorrow? I hope not many, but then I'm a bit of an optimist in this regard.

Ron Paul 'close' to joining 2012 presidential race

Rep. Ron Paul says he'll make a decision on a 2012 presidential race "within a month or so" and plans for now to stick with the Republican Party. The Texas congressman, who gained an ardent following with his 2008 bid, made his comments Tuesday night on the Alex Jones radio show. "We're getting awfully close," Paul said, noting, "There are just a few other things I have to iron out personally to make my final decision."

More from USA Today "On Politics".

Ron Paul says Leave Libya Alone!

This is a great speech to the House. Straight from the heart. Ron Paul is only saying what is true. That a no fly zone is an aspect of war. As General Sherman once said "War is Hell!" and it certainly is. No right thinking person wants war except despots and arms manufacturers. The Libyan rebels don't want outside intervention. It may seem  like we know it all, but the past twenty years or so have clearly shown that we don't.

Ron Paul 2012 Campaign Site

Ron Paul mulling over 2012 presidential bid

Despite speculation that Ron Paul was eying up the Senate seat of Kay Bailey Hutchinson in Texas, he has told the National Journal that a presidential bid in 2012 is still the more viable option. Last time round Ron Paul was the most successful candidate on the internet but the least successful candidate as far as fair shares of TV time and Republican Party favours were concerned.

2012 will be different. No more Fox News manipulation. No more sidelining by the GOP establishment. I bet that if it were a Ron Paul versus Barack Obama contest, the older man would win. Why? Because Ron Paul has seen through the profligacy of big government as well as the short-sightedness of status quo politicians.

Fractional Banking and the Federal Reserve System Explained!

Just thought I'd post this again. Money does grow on trees - or bank branches - and is very easy to do. No wonder there was a run on the Northern Rock!



This one is a real treat too!

CNBC anchors mortified that Ron Paul was allowed air time

Ron Paul's 'Audit the Fed' bill gathering steam

This piece comes from CQ Politics about Ron Paul's efforts to stop the political fudging about how much America is in debt. Dr.Paul has a large number of cosponsors, 244 right now. It's amazing that the authorities in both Washington and Brussels seem to be scared stiff of having audits. The public on both sides want transparency, but it's like wading through custard. What makes them so difficult? Surely not the ending of the gravy trains?

Ron Paul and a master class!

These high school kids have had a real master class in politics and economics. Ron Paul is a natural. No cue cards or autocue. Just straight from the heart. I like something he said recently about President Obama. "He wants to spend more money. But, he admits we don't have any money. So, the question is - where do we get the money? We can't tax the people anymore. They are overtaxed and the economy is weak. The common sensical thing to do is to cut spending. But, nobody wants to cut spending." Back to the money trees in the funny forest, then?

Ron Paul’s Economic Theories Winning GOP Converts

This qualifies for an entry in the Wonders Never Cease Category. It was only a year ago that Ron Paul was being denounced as a nutter and a troublemaker by fellow Republicans. Now they think he's the bee's knees, or at least some of them do. Come next year and the whole party will be transformed into Paulista thinking.

Michele Bachmann, the representative from Minnesota, is so taken with the ideas of Thomas Woods, a conservative writer in the Ron Paul mould, that she felt she had to question Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner about economic fundamentals. I bet they were ill-prepared. The more the merrier. Quizzing these cash diverters about how dodgy dollars could possibly make America great again has to be a patriotic duty I'd have thought.

More here, from the Washington Independent.

Ron Paul tricked into gay seduction scene!

Ron Paul has had the misfortune to be duped by Sacha Baron Cohen's sense of humour. This humour is based upon tricking people into embarrassing situations and playing back the filmed sequence as entertainment to the masses.

Basically Cohen has another alter ego called Bruno who is a gay "reporter" of sorts. Paul was asked how he ended up in a hotel room in such a compromising situation. He said, 'We were in a studio situation, I wasn't invited into a hotel room. There were lots of lights and blaze and commotion and they said we better get in this back room which had been fixed up as a bedroom. So there was some dishonesty getting me into the interview, I was expecting an interview on Austrian economics. That didn't turn out that way. By the time he (Cohen) started pulling his pants down, I was like what on earth is going on here and I ran out of the room. This interview had ended.'

If Cohen thought he could stitch Ron Paul up he was grievously mistaken. As Paul says, 'I don't like the way he lies his way into interviews. That to me is fraud. He has raunchy material people buy into it's sort of sad that it's a reflection of our culture. It's a real shame people are gonna reward him with millions and millions of dollars for being so crass.'

That is very true. If Cohen used willing people then OK. But it is the duplicity that rather negates any humour there might be.

Ron Paul out of the wilderness!

Yesterday I was posting about horses bolting. Today it's about the fact that a lot of folks in America think they bet on the wrong horse. All those GOP primary votes wasted on the likes of Giuliani, Huckabee and Romney. Ron Paul is the horse now favoured by the punters. Everyone is coming up to pat him saying they always knew he had fine ideas. Blah, blah! Where were they when they were needed most. Even Fox News is all over Dr.Paul like a rash. And they did their level best to keep him in the margins as a quack doctor peddling some herbal remedy. Now they can't get enough of his tonic!

So, guess what? Ron Paul supporters, from the Campaign for Liberty, turn up at the CPAC 2009 shindig and find that everyone is talking his language. Ron Paul went down very well so we are told. David Weigel, writing in the Guardian, a paper not known for its sympathies with the right, says of Paul's surge in admirers - "What's changed in two years? It's not only that Republicans have lost an election – it's that Republicans do not yet understand why they lost. They are not willing to consider that they lost votes because Americans wanted more social democratic policies. The official explanation for their loss is that Republicans spent too much money and lost touch with their values. It only makes sense that Paul, who has been arguing for years that the GOP needs to get back to the values of pre-New Deal America, should be winning over young hearts and minds."

Winning over young hearts and minds. It will be these who will be paying off the trillion dollars going everywhere and who do not want anymore financial nonsense to carry on.

Is the USA doomed to poverty and pauperism?

The Republican party, all except three, in the Congress are trashing Obama's stimulus package. Not because they have looked in the mirror to say sorry for exciting George Bush into reckless miopia when the credit crunchers took hold, but because they are fearful of the vast debt piling up. I think it is all a bit late. Where was Bush, that adopted Texan cowboy when Stanford was building his ponzi scheme? And Madoff? And the Lehman Brothers fat cats?

No, the GOP hasn't got a leg to stand on. But Obama is raiding the funny money chest. He's on some yellow brick road at the moment. Mind boggling sums are going into propping up ailing businesses, banks without balances, and government agencies. The Republicans are right on one crucial point. "The way to lead is not to raise taxes and put more money and power in hands of Washington politicians. The massive economic stimulus bill will increase our taxes down the line, and saddle future generations with debt." That was the "official line" from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, speaking on behalf of the GOP.

It is all a crying shame that Ron Paul didn't get to be president. But at least he's being listened to now. Fox News! Who'd have thought it.

What we need is confidence back into the system. Those that are calling for small retail banks separate from the investment banks should hold sway. We cannot go on dumping money into bottomless pits. Until the toxic debt level is actually agreed and put into a special fund, it will remain exactly that - A TOXIC DEBT. We are being slowly poisoned and the cure is to fence off these offending loans and feed the economy with good money not imaginery stuff from the cookie jar!

Stimulus Act! Signed, sealed, delivered...and UNREAD!

Ron Paul puts it well. It all makes sense what he says, but human nature doesn't always see sense. In fact, collectively human nature is far more prepared to sup with the devil than stay the course of prudence and preparedness. After all, if someone shoves a trillion dollars in your face, would you say "NO!"?

So all the gravy trains have been topped up with cash. I had great hopes for Barack Obama and still do in many ways. But this so-called American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will go down in history as the millstone that future generations will carry about with them. All new babies will get a card welcoming them to the debt-ridden world. Most people think this is wonderful. After all, they are not paying for it. But there isn't an accountant alive who thinks that two and two makes ten. So how they are going to audit the Federal Government's books without scaring us all witless, I do not know.

Ron Paul says, about the passing of the Bill. "There were five copies available to the House and I think five to the Senate, and that wasn’t available ’til the House opened at noon time. So essentially it was not available to us and who can stay up all night and read a thousand pages? So obviously it was done like business as usual. Things have been going on like this for a long time, but this one was a little bit worse, it was bigger than usual so it was not a very good day for America."

It really makes you wonder what goes on in the minds of an average Congressman. Surely they must realise that this sort of cavalier approach to finance is what got us here in the first place?

Ron Paul latest take on the "stimulus" package

Here is Ron Paul, on 7th February, discussing the spending package, which is euphemistically called the stimulus package. Any hope that it will stimulate change is much needed, but it may just stimulate further problems.

Ron Paul in interstate milk sales bid

Following on from Ernie and the pot-pushing milkman from Burnley, here's another milk story. Ron Paul has introduced a bill "to authorize the interstate traffic of unpasteurized milk and milk products that are packaged for direct human consumption". Currently there is a ban on this, or at least interference from federal authorities.

Much is happening in the individual states and between the states currently. They are reawakening a desire for states rights over federal control. This bill is just one that follows that desire. More here at the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund's website. Personally I would encourage every support for this bill as it promotes free trade and does away with Nanny and her we-know-best Associates!

I'll drink to that.

Ron Paul and a few home truths

As this is a Ron Paul supporting website (shouldn't every blog be that?) I'm showing this good expose of the "War in Afghanistan". As Dr. Paul says, the more Muslims we kill, accidently or deliberately, the more ammunition there is for Al Queda. This is a hopeless battle, made even more so by the fact that nothing is being done to get rid of the poppy harvest. Instead of bombs and bullets, how about deploying an army of cropsprayers to devastate the drugs trade? Surely that's the real enemy. Let the Afghan farmers grow natural tomatoes or something, so we can have decent fresh food in the supermarkets. I bet an Afghan farmer wouldn't flog us green tomatoes just for them to be gassed in a warehouse so they go an odd orange colour!

Anyway, I digress. Here's Ron Paul -

Browned off with bailouts?

I've just seen Gordon Brown on television, with Alistair Darling giving appropriate backup. The two are still convinced that throwing money at the problem is the only way out. Some agree, but many more I suspect are either in disagreement or are highly uncomfortable with it all.

Brown looked tired and drawn. If he doesn't get it right soon, he may have to do an Anthony Eden on us. He still blames the banks. He is angry. Well we all are, but he has had access to information we didn't. In August 2007 the sub-prime fiasco blew up in our faces. Ever since, he must have been asking some questions, surely? He just seems to be following events rather than anticipating them or even asking simple questions.

He needs to get those bankers in and put a financial pistol to their heads. And he can bring in Angela Knight in too, of the British Bankers' Association. She was Conservative MP for Erewash and was Economic Secretary to the Treasury in John Major's government. She seems to think more roses are growing in the garden than most of us can see!

We need Ron Paul over here to give us all a pep talk!

Fox News now Ron Paul's biggest fan?

It seems that Ron Paul is pundit number one when it comes to Fox News. Pity they were so down on him during the election. Anyway now they appear to be bending over backwards to give air time.

Here is Ron Paul saying he thinks Barack Obama is right in telling us that things may get worse, but he thinks Obama may be missing a few points. If you want to hear a politician speaking it as it is, here's Ron Paul. If you want a different tack, take up with Gordon Brown and the fairies in Number 10!

Ron Paul on too much blowback!

Watching this piece from Ron Paul in the House today makes you wonder what American foreign policy is all about. The more I hear him, the more I wish he was going up to swear the oath of allegiance, but hey that was then and now is now.

Ron Paul on the Gaza conflict -

Ron Paul sees trillion dollar deficits in true light!

Ron Paul would save a trillion dollars just by cutting the "overseas empire" so that the trillion dollar deficits "for years to come" that President-elect Obama says we have to live with would be dissipated fairly quickly. Of course, all those tied up in the business of the War on Terror would have to be deployed elsewhere, but at least the average American wouldn't have a taxation millstone to drag around until death!

"We haven't had free market economies for a long long time", says Dr.Paul. Seems to me very odd that in the Land of the Free, free enterprise is on a back burner and corporate interference is the bees knees. Oh, well!

Here's Ron Paul talking about the continuing dilemmas and that trillion dollar deficit.

Ron Paul bazookered from the bushes!

Here's a shot from Bazookaman aka Michael Bradbury, from somewhere up a mountain in Idaho. He rues the day that the Republican Party squeezed out Ron Paul. He says, "As many of you know, I was solidly in Ron Paul's corner. When he was intentionally barred from some of the eastern debates, I KNEW Ron was the right guy. When he was mathematically out of it, and officially withdrew, I wasn't going to vote at all."

That's how many perceived it. Bazookaman puts it well. "Nope...........I didn't support BUSH last time, and if the GOP can't put Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, or someone of that caliber, into that running slot, then we probably DESERVE to lose! Looking at it realistically, in the pack of jackals the Democrats have to choose from, Obama probably WAS the best they could do."

The "right" isn't always right, and over the last year in America the ruling elite appears to have lived under a vaporous cloud that has addled their brains. Read Bazookaman's piece. I think he speaks for a lot of people out there.