I am in no way exaggerating when I use the word "revolution," for the Ron Paul for president campaign is nothing less than a grassroots retaliation by the private citizens of this country against the Federal Leviathan.
Ron P — who now? On the off chance that you haven't been privy to the explosion on the Internet in the last few months, let me update you on this uniquely inspiring candidate who has attracted such ardent supporters from all political persuasions.
Rep. Paul is an obstetrician by trade and a representative from the Texas 22nd, where he has been the lone beacon of responsible governance drowning in a legislature of pork projects, earmarks and seemingly limitless spending. In fact, his record has earned him the nickname "Dr. No."
He is a member of the Republican Party but has repeatedly attempted to distinguish himself from his "neo-conservative" fellows, who have completely lost touch with the limited government for protecting individual rights provisioned by the Constitution.
Be you a democrat, republican, libertarian, independent or other, Paul has something to offer every single person interested in combating the oppressive "powers that be" — whether its government bureaucracy and overregulation, the industrial military complex, corporate interests, excessive taxation or expanding executive powers digging ever deeper in to our civil liberties.
His message cuts across party lines, appealing to those on either end of the spectrum, because he brings to light the true nature of the dominating political players: they are only slightly modified versions of the same thing. Mainstream politics has one monstrous, defining trait that unifies left and the right — advocacy for increasing the size, scope, breadth and power of the state.
Sure, the parties are different in that they wish to achieve this goal in distinct ways. The democrats traditionally have focused on crippling the economy through regulation after back-breaking regulation and twisting noble intentions into wasteful and ineffectual government welfare programs.
Whereas the republicans have reserved their gluttonous spending on the post-WWII "warfare" state and self-righteously meddling in your personal affairs in the name of "family values" and "the war on (insert logistical disaster here)." But the net effect is the same—you are poorer, less free and less able to stop it.
If you are liberal-leaning in your political philosophy, then you will undoubtedly have our unacceptable foreign and Orwellian domestic policies on the top of your list of concerns for the upcoming election. The Iraq "War" is increasingly unpopular with the American people, and for good reason.
We are all aware of the WMD fake-out, the "victory" fake-out, the cost fake-out (originally thought to be no more than a few billion dollars, it has surpassed $700 billion), the "hate us for our freedoms" fake-out (our past clandestine and unlawful interventions and current presence in Saudi Arabia was one of the three reasons given for the attack on 9/11 by Al-Qaida, still largely unacknowledged by either side), the wire-tapping, and the destruction of civil liberties (e.g. suspension of habeas corpus; torture in Guantanamo).
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