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Subscribe to RSSRepublican presidential candidate Ron Paul’s campaign is increasing its efforts in early voting states by recruiting college-aged supporters to spend their "Christmas Vacation with Ron Paul" as part of a get-out-the-vote program. The campaign is asking students to devote their holiday break working for the campaign in Iowa (Dec. 27 - Jan. 4, 2012) and New Hampshire (Jan. 2-11) while providing meals, lodging and transportation.
A fundraising email sent to supporters after Thanksgiving calls the campaign's official youth effort "Youth for Ron Paul" its "Secret Weapon" -- one they say, "no other campaign will be able to duplicate. That's because no other campaign has the level of support and enthusiasm among young people that [their] campaign has."
The initiative hopes to organize “500 young activists knocking on doors and making phone calls ... to work all day and night to help" Paul succeed. The campaign claims it will cost "over $20,000 per day to put 500 young people on the ground in Iowa and New Hampshire," which means "a new expense of $600,000."
And the plea for donations includes a message meant to appeal to fiscal conservatives.
"I know that sounds like a lot, but actually, that is only $45.00 per person! I think you will admit that is a bargain!"
As part of the selection process, an online questionnaire asks applicants their views on public policy positions using a rating scale of 1 - 5 (from strongly agree to strongly disagree) answering statements like: The 9/11 attacks were carried out by Islamic extremists connected to Al Qaeda who were the sole perpetrators of the damage that day; after a complete audit of the Federal Reserve, the Fed should be abolished; cannabis should be legalized for recreational use; and preemptive, unilateral military action is never an appropriate policy for the U.S.
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Ron Paul is making the Republican establishment sweat because the GOP electorate is disgusted with the rest of their 2012 field and they understand that Paul is really the only conservative in the bunch. Romney and Cain and Gingrich are conservatives in name only, waving their Tea Party banners while pushing for a big government GOP agenda on social issues and corporate welfare. I would not be shocked if Ron Paul were to get the nomination. http://www.sunstateactivist.org
The Republicans would be stupid not to give him the nomination. Just about every Ron Paul supporter including myself will be voting for him no matter what. We make up more than enough of the overall vote to dictate the outcome of the election. Who would the Republicans rather have in office, Ron Paul or Obama?
Ron Paul as an independent would literally destroy any hope whatsoever of a GOP victory and probably guarantee an Obama landslide. Ron Paul will not seek another term in Congress so this is his last shot. There is little doubt he will run as an independent unless the CIA and military contractor goon squad get to him like they did Ross Perot.
They better figure out a way to include him in this somehow.
What a smart campaign! Good for Ron Paul...
I'm a retiree, and I support Ron Paul for president!
I'd be voting obama if he had lived up to his promise to end the wars. Ron Paul's going to end the wars AND save social security/medicare.
Have to have a serious talk with my neices, nephews, kids and grandkids about us all pitching an and helping out
Young adults will remember this experience for the rest of their lives.
She's our past, our present, and our promise of tomorrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YkO_De-cKs
She Is Always Seventeen by Harry Chapin
Never compromising integrity and honesty, Ron Paul is the only realistic choice to rely on for leadership and crisis-management. The others will eliminate themselves eventually through various misstatements and past personal errors.
Ron Paul 2012
Excuse me Ron but $20,000 per day for 500 people works out to $40/day, not $45. If you want to convince voters that you got the math right on your budget plans, better get one of the young math majors to vet your statements.
No, maybe you should check your reading comprehension skills. He said "over 20,000 a day" which works out to be 25,500.
Regardless, I'm attending this and can't wait to win IOWA!
Maybe my maths is off but 500 people in Iowa during the week upto the caucus and 500 people in NH a week upto the Primary adds upto just over $300,000 by my calculations. So either they're not factoring in some costs or they're campaigning for 2 weeks and not 1 in each state?
Eitherway, it's a great idea. They should also ask for as many local volunteers to turn up during this period as well. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a couple of thousand turn out daily during this period if the campaign asked for it.
Ron Paul has been the cure for apathy in 2012.
Good for the young people, I hope they actually get out and vote.
Thank goodness the young see the light too. Ron Paul inspires me to think positive and that is saying something in this negative world. The 'restoration of America' is definately at hand. Ron Paul 2012.
This will go over just as well as the Deaniacs did in 2004. Iowans welcome the enthusiasm of youth but ultimately go with what they know, and eliminating the weather service, selling national parks to the highest bidder, and all national standards (as the $1 trillion in first year Ron Paul cuts includes) won't go over too well.
Excuse me Links please?
Show me where he has said he's going to cut any of those things?
Show ME!!!!!!
PLEASE!!!
Ron Paul is going to cut things. There is no doubt thank God.
So yes all the deficit junkies are afraid of him because he might get around to their slice of the endless federal debt pie. That whole pie is going to go down anyway in a couple more years when the IMF and FED are bankrupted trying to prop up what is left of the Euro.
We are staring our fate in the face with Europe and everyone is still demanding their deficit drug fix until the Titanic sinks. At this point at the end of a futile effort of bailing with teacups so someone better turn this crap around.
You can't let the debt dependents control the vote or the elections. Obviously we would be doomed. They would vote in Adolph Hitler to keep their free stuff or fabricated jobs flowing.
Some people don't see this as a "radical" time that needs radical measures. Europe thought the same thing until the creditors moved in and told them how the NEW enslavement would work.
Adams101
YES Thank God.
But he is NOT going to eliminate the National Weather Service, Sell off the National Parks and NOT eliminate all national standards.
I was asking the poster above for his sources for that tripe.
I agree we are staring at our fate when we look at Europe, i also believe that Ron Paul is the only one with a viable plan to make an attempt at saving us.
But it might be too little too late....
You don't hear many comments on how the european bankers are dictating to Greece and now Italy and soon to Spain on how they will run their countries.
Debt is a drug also, and suck up too much and you will lose your ability to govern yourselves.
Did you know that technically the National Parks already have leans against them to the Federal Reserve bankers from the bankruptcy in 1933? Those leans have only been reaffirmed by the now $15 trillion in debt. This is one reason the federal government will not move forward to exploit any of the minerals and oil in those regions. Technically there are liens against those property's by creditors.
Ron will be greatly tempered by the "Gang of 525" or Congress, House and Senate. The power of a President are grossly over exaggerated. Some Bozo's think every idea or opinion the guy has is going to be implemented. He will however be a watchdog for personal freedoms and do a great deal to wind down the military contractor welfare overseas.
They just don't publicize all the begging and groveling those countries in Europe are doing. They do not want to panic the people. The countries don't have a choice because debt is weakness and credit is power. The IMF has literally purchased massive influence into the governments of all those European countries. AS long as those countries are tied to the Euro they are simply reduced to beggars for anything involved with money. If they leave the Euro they will get immediate hyper inflation literally like Zimbabwe.
It is too late for Europe but a quick turn around with the US is possible. We just have to cut the deficit junkies off now and not when it is too late. They are going to get cut off anyways.
Yes I know how it works, The same way Obama crammed health-care reform through congress, with a willing congress.
Most federal government property has liens on it from 1933. I would really like to see how the creditors think they are going to collect.
I see the European bankers dictation to the Governments of both Greece and Italy on how their countries are going to be run, I remember Merkle saying that if they don't cooperate they do have the military option.....
Sounds to me like national sovereignty is out the window in europe.
I know it's not too late for us, but it is getting close. We need to chop the spending NOW.
Most of what Ron Paul wants to do in the first year (1 trillion) can be done by a president on his own, it's the other two thirds of his plan (balanced budget in three years) that need congressional cooperation to get done.
I have no doubts that he will do it, (if he isn't assassinated first) he is a man of conviction and honest to a fault, his record stands for that better than I ever could.
All we can do is vote the crooks out and vote others in until we get it right.
But, we need to start NOW. it is our last chance before we as a nation are run off a cliff.
Ron Paul is clear and consistent. He's going to win Iowa and that will really shake things up!
If people knew and understood the philosophical consistency and intellectual depth of Ron Paul and studied the books of the people from whom he draws his principles, the election would be over and America would be saved. Although Dr. Paul is sometimes accused of being a Randian, this is a lie. While he mentions her, and what libertarian wouldn't, he actually draws his beliefs from John Locke, Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Rothbard, Hans Hermann Hoppe, Carl Menger, F.A. Hayek, Randolph Bourne, Lew Rockwell and others of the Austrian school. It is an American shame that most people are ignorant of the arguments these individuals have made for liberty and free markets. Their writings are kept from the American people and our educational establishment so the media can be left to frame debate. This censorship and media filtering is a form of thought control. The ruling class knows it is better off if Americans are divided and spend their time arguing about gay marriage and flag lapel pins. Americans, I beg you. Please educate yourself and discover the questions that need to be asked. Learn how genius economists, statesmen and philosophers have advanced the arguments for liberty and free markets. Read how they have answered questions regarding liberty, peace and prosperity after having made the study of economics, history, war, government, philosophy, religion and liberty a lifetime endeavor. When people understand that all other politicians are statists, except for Ron Paul who champions the individual, their choice for who to elect as president will be made clear. Anyone questioning Dr. Paul's foreign policy credentials ought to read his book, "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship" or his numerous other books that explain how the U.S. got into the mess it is in and how it can get out. There are no "tell all gossip books" by Ron Paul. He is a statemen, economist, historian, philosopher, doctor and scholar. My vote is nobody except Ron Paul.
Libertarians tend to think ideas win campaigns. Depth of thinking? Well, maybe it should be that way, but I think it seldom is.
Ron Paul isn't really a Republican. We all know that. He's the same guy who ran as the Libertarian nominee for president way back when. In fact, that's one of his selling points - consistency.
So why would the Republicans nominate someone who clearly has ideas from off the reservation? That's the folly of this whole thing. Granted, Paul is benefitting from an extraordinarily weak field of candidates - weakest I think I've ever seen, by far, for a major party nomination. Some of the candidates come across as downright daffy.
But when push comes to shove, do y'all really believe the Republicans are going to nominate a libertarian for a national campaign anytime soon? Or do you sorta kinda know down deep inside the Republicans will eventually hold their noses and nominate one of the other guys?
They can nominate somebody other than Ron Paul at their own peril.
When you toss Obama in with the rest of this "ship of fools" GOP candidate pool it is like having Ron Paul being the only sober person in a car full of drunks....... but nobody wants to let him drive.
Everyone desperately wants to "keep everything the same" but it is not going to happen. It is time to bite the bullet and move forward into a new world for the US. If we do it now, we choose the world we make. If we don't choose it now the creditors will choose our new world. It is man's nature to fear change especially when it requires one step back to take two steps forward.
We can't let fear of the "new" drive our voting this election. We did that the last 25 years and look at the mess we are in.
Ron Paul's presidential aspirations are bleak at best. He will either spend his time following the primaries watching the race on TV and licking his wounds or he will be Romney's VP pick in order to appeal to the Southern Baptist churches and other christian extremist groups who are openly hostile to Romney's Mormon religion.
Either way, Paul's presidential campaign is stuck.
If the GOP does not include Ron Paul he will branch off as an Independent and ruin the election for the GOP for sure and possibly even Obama. The GOP is just figuring out which "other" candidate will run with him.
They really don't have a chance, just like with Ross Perot who had less than 1/3 the following of Ron Paul. Ross Perot, a virtual unknown, in a great economy still took 20 million popular votes forcing Bush into a loss when it should have been a landslide GOP victory over Clinton.
This was despite Perot dropping out of the election when he was polling with 43% of the vote and jumping back in at the end. He simply ran on fixing the economy as well as keeping our forces out of middle eastern conflicts.,,,, sound familiar?
Any third party candidate splitting from the GOP will only assist Obama in his inevitable reelection. I haven't seen any reports suggesting Paul will become an independent third party candidate, though.
Ron Paul will be on the ballot in ALL 50 States. He will be nominated by Americans Elect.
Sailcat, If this was 15 years ago in a great economy with a strong European community and a weak China you would be right. But that dream world in long gone.
It is highly possible Ron Paul as an independent has more of a chance at winning than a GOP candidate. All he needs is 34% because the other two party's will actually cancel each other out. In this financial mess and the lack of plans form any mainstream party candidate it is likely the middle class taxpayers will carry Ron to victory. Obama's deficit depends are not enough to win the election nor are the religious right war mongers on the right.
The "middle" and independent votes are shifting more every day to Ron Paul because those people actually pay taxes and do not benefit from deficit spending. This is the group neither mainstream party has any hope of recruiting.
This election only takes 34% to win. The rest is split right down the middle with different factions of the deficit junkies who don't agree on anything.
I genuinely doubt Paul can pull that much of the electorate, though. He will be outmanned, outspent, and outmaneuvered in the media by the large political machines against whom he would be competing. Perot had a huge organization from which to draw talent and deep pockets he used to finance his campaign and he still lost by a large margin. Paul would be ill advised to make such a move to going on the ballot as a third party candidate.
Adams101
Ron Paul has been asked by the MSM many times if he intends to run as a third party candidate, much to his growing frustration.
He has repeatedly stated that his chances of running like Ross Perot did are so minuscule as to be non-existent.
This is exactly what the MSM wants him to do. Why? Because there are still enough line-vote republicans to make Obama the winner.
Many polls show Ron as the only candidate that will beat Obama, he consistently polls ahead of Obama head to head, none of the others do.
The current polls are showing him with a slight lead in Iowa and a solid second or third in New Hampshire, just where he wants to be as he has said so himself. In South Carolina, he's middle of the pack, but if you listen to the man in the street he's the current favorite, and in Nevada he's the clear favorite. This is all on voters who state they have already decided.
In Iowa he has a commanding lead in the already decided vote.
I have a lot of hope that he's going to astound the MSM come January.
The difference with Ron Paul is he has a "cause" to forward and it is not just about winning. He actually wants the much needed change much more than the Presidency. If he has to lose he will make any necessary "moves" to forward the agenda. Ron Paul owes the GOP absolutely nothing and will retire anyway.
The overwhelming majority of "the polls" you are talking about are all fashioned by the mainstream media sources or other corporate owned sources who have massive conflicts of interest. They are all owned my major legacy corporate lobby's. The polls are totally manipulated. This conflict of interest has never been more blatant than now. The press and media sources are doing Ron Paul an obvious and unacceptable injustice.
It is really all about "the man on the street".
Paul is the only decent person the right wing has. He makes too much sense to be a Republican. A true conservative??
Possibly, Gil, but the GOP will sink him precisely because he is an old-school Republican whose opinions are based upon honor and dignity instead of bigotry, hatred, and intolerance. These are dark times for Republican moderates. Dark times, indeed.
My oldest son is in college and he likes Paul. He says he's a hit on college campuses. You think that is why? It seems like kids know when you're honest with them. Just like they can detect BS pretty easily too.
Well, Gil, I voted for McCain in the 2008 presidential election but I will not vote for any of the leading GOP pretenders in 2012 (I don't view Paul as a leading contender, unfortunately). They represent everything that is wrong with the political scene in the America right now. These are difficult times for moderates and I refuse to vote for a political party that openly appeals to the right wing christian lunatic fringe for support. Even if Paul winds up as Romney's VP pick I will vote for Obama. There is no other choice.
Ron Paul represents everything that is wrong? I suggest you look more in to the good ole Doc.
Or, you can have your 4 more wars, i mean, years of Obama.
Which is exactly what we will get, thanks to the incompetence of the RNC. Read 'em and weep.
Sailcat-2064101
Paul will not be any establishment candidate VP pick, what he espouses in economics is anathema to the establishment political class. What he espouses as far as the way Government should be run would not make him a political asset to an establishment president.
Besides, he would refuse.
First of all you sound like someone who is supported by deficit spending not one of us who are sick of paying for it all and getting nothing. The only reason anyone supports Obama is because more of the same is just "ducky" with them.
If you don't see Ron Paul as a truthful and highly intelligent Constitutionalist and viable candidate you really need to read more about him. Everything he talks about seems "too radical" right now because we are trying to turn around this country around when it is VERY far down the road to complete disaster. Both mainstream party candidates are completely lost in a sea of legacy lobby's they created from decades of massive corruption.
I mean we are emulating Germany under Adolph Hitler. We are invading several countries and occupying them all, while continuing to set our sights on more. We have our finger on the trigger of WWIII with nukes. The corporations have taken over our government and our Treasury. All our personal rights are being destroyed in the name of "fighting our enemies". Our local law enforcement wear faceless black outfits and carry massive arsenals including automatic weapons. Phones are tapped, computers monitored and compiling lists of "subversives" to the regime in power.... in the name of fighting our invisible enemies. Then we have tens of millions of deficit junkie who vote themselves financial support and jobs from debt creation.
At what point is enough... enough? Elect some Constitutionalists and start dismantling this out of control monster. Don't support or elect ANYONE who supports all this crap. There are some Democratic politicians who are constitutionalist too.... they just are not tolerated in the Democratic party at the top.
What frustrates me is that so many of the electorate state that they want a CLEAR CHOICE......
But they seem to question the clearest choice that has come in better than 40 years.
If you are against tax and spend, if you are against the automatic spending increases in every federal budget, if you are against WAR, if you are against entitlements, if you are against mandated health care, if you are against phoney money.....
I could go on and on....
Ron Paul is the answer..... the only answer.
Dr Paul is the only one running that can save the economy and thus the country.
Unemployment is closer to 18% dont believe the crap on your tv
Im writing in Dr Paul no matter what.
Ron Paul 2012!!
Dr. Ron Paul 2012... I will write him in, if necessary!! RON PAUL 2012..
Ron Paul will only vote legally. He is the most trust worthy man in the field. If congress brings him a bill that is not supported by our constitution, as president he will VETO it. This is what Ron Paul is about. If the law is good enough to be supported by an amendment to our constitution, then he is all for amending the constitution. Congress needs to uphold the Constitution. Our founding fathers would be proud of this man. We have got to get all of these special interest guys out of office, and put people in that care about freedom and liberty! Ron Paul is a good guy. I hope his running mate is Rand! That would be awesome. If anyone one of these other guys that are running for president gets elected then our country will go bankrupt, almost immediately. The Amero will be the new form of currency in Mexico, United States, and Canada. Our constitution will no longer exist. This is a last ditch effort to save our constitution, before all that we have worked so hard for is lost. Don't let the men and women that have fought and died for our country, die in vain, to a socialist that doesn't care about our country and our way of thinking. LET FREEDOM RING! Ron Paul 2012!
Looking forward to vote Ron Paul in 2012!