Liberty MavenShould Ron Paul run for President in 2012?
November 25th, 2008 9:09 am | by Marc Gallagher | Published in Activism, Election, Liberty, Ron Paul | 9 Responses
Oh yes. Doug Wead is now officially calling for Ron Paul to enter the race for 2012 in his own eloquent way. Doug Wead’s speech at the Rally for the Republic was one of my favorites. This persuasive article sums up all of my hopes and dreams for Ron Paul 2012.
Ron Paul is certainly his own man, but if he were to read this I don’t see how he could not be moved to enter the 2012 fray and do it soon, perhaps even before Obama is sworn in. Here is an excerpt:
Sure, he has to be sensitive to sacrificing principle to win when that is the very reason people support him and the very reason they are angry at Democrats and Republicans. But the fact is that Ron Paul has lifted the whole, aging, stifling, outdated Neanderthal right wing out of the ditch and up onto dry ground and hitched it to a populist, neo-libertine wagon train. And he has done all of this single handedly, on his broad generous, courageous shoulders. And he has done it without breaking the China.
Oh, there is much, much more. He has woven a slender thread through the crimson cloth of Evangelical Christians and the pink cloth of Gay America, making one garment out of a people who have decided that they never really wanted or needed power, just the guarantee that government would stay out of their lives and not intrude. Who would have thought that this was politically possible?
He has gathered the hurt and wounded families of America who have suffered the extremes of our glorious “War on Crime,” which has become almost Soviet in its unintended consequences.
It is an amazingly diverse and complicated political fabric, with great demographic possibilities.
Still, the question remains, what did it all accomplish? Were the national debates the high watermark? What happened to our new Paulista congressmen and school board members and the remaking of the GOP?
The political reality is this, just as Ron Paul accepted the fact that he had to run in a two party system, he now must accept the fact that he cannot oversee the remaking of the GOP as a coach on the sidelines. Surely the lesson of 2008 made that clear. He has to get in the game. He has to play quarterback. He has to run for president. Again.
Read the entire wonderful can’t miss article here.
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November 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm (#)
I don’t think he should. Look what the last race did to his hair.
And do you think the media would treat him any fairer than they did now?
November 25th, 2008 at 3:19 pm (#)
I absolutely think he should run. Right now, Ron Paul is the only one with the record to keep us all together, moving in the same direction. We need more people, but I would never have looked beyond the GOP for someone with pretty words and no record of sticking to principles. I could get THAT in mainstream GOP. It’s Ron Paul’s record that is amazing and makes you feel like you have to do more, yourself.
However, I don’t know if he should say he is running yet. I actually think he gets more substantive airtime when he doesn’t present himself as a candidate. If the market had tanked in the election period I don’t think Fox News and CNN would be running him so much. But maybe that’s just me.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:21 pm (#)
P.S. I wrote Ron Paul in in California. That is what I meant about ‘looking beyond the GOP.’ Obviously RP is in the GOP. Even if the party heirarchy doesn’t treat him that way….
November 26th, 2008 at 10:50 am (#)
Mosse has it right–it’ll ruin his hair–assuming, in four years, he’s still got any left.
Four years for someone his age is a long time.
My mother, who is 88, declined as fast as the stock market last year–it only took one year for her to go from fairly good health to bedridden.
So, as usual, another Paulite has done the dance of the imprudent and immature–Wead is looking into his wishing well.
But this official announcement by Wead is only to keep up the morale of the troops–that is, of those that remain, which ain’t many, not now.
Let’s first see if Paul wins his seat in 2010. No, that is not any kind of slam-dunk.
November 28th, 2008 at 4:47 am (#)
I have a better idea. How about if Ron Paul runs for governor of Texas, and then pushes secession from the federal government. Kick the feds out of Texas, and return to a free market, sound money in Texas. Then we can have at least one free market place to live in the world.
November 28th, 2008 at 7:56 pm (#)
I would be very disappointed if he did not run in 2012. I have already wrote his office and begged him to. If he is suppressed by the media and the GOP this time, they will have to officially announce that they are suppressing him. I believe that the Ron Paul Revolution didn’t have enough time to build up steam, and make the proper impression it was capable of.
If he announces he will run in 2012, I will start campaigning for him NOW! I will make sure that everyone that makes eye contact with me not only knows who he is, but what he’s about. We all know that most politicians are “all about” everything – that’s their job, to flip-flop and please everybody to get the most votes possible. Ron Paul has stood firm on his issues his entire career, and I will make sure everybody I know (and everybody I don’t) know about the great Dr. Ron Paul.
February 10th, 2009 at 9:50 am (#)
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June 1st, 2009 at 7:40 am (#)
WAY TO GO PEOPLE FOR NOT VOTING FOR RON PAUL DUMBASSES NOW LOOK AT THE GREAT WONDERFUL STATE THAT OUR COUNTRIES IN. OF COURSE THE MEDIA WONT TREAT HIM ANY DIFFERENT THEY LOVE DRAMA! HEY REMEMBER PREDICTIONS THAT RON PAUL MADE AND EVERYONE LAUGHED? NONE OF HIS PERDICITONS CAME TRUE DID THEY! IM GLAD YOU PEOPLE LOVE SOCIALISM…………ITS FAILED IN EVERY OTHER COUNTRY IDIOTS! RON PAUL HAS ALLO MY SUPPORT! AND MEDIA COMPARES OBAMA TO REGAN RIGHT LOL…LOL…LOL. THAT WOULD BE GREAT LIBERTY ECONOMICS, I WOULD MOVE TO TEXAS FASTER THAN THIS COUNTRY IS GOING DOWN THE DRAIN, IF THATS POSSIBLE WE ARE ON A SPEEDY DECLINE……HOPE YOU ALL THAT VOTED FOR OBAMA GOT THE "CHANGE" YOU HOPE FOR
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:17 pm (#)
I'll vote for him….I'll even donate my time to the campaign.