From Lew Rockwell comes some exciting news:
Today, incorporation papers were filed in Texas for a Ron Paul 2008 presidential exploratory committee. More news to come!
It’s not clear if this is an actual filing by or on behalf of Congressman Paul himself or a move by someone trying to convince him to run. Also unclear is whether Paul would run as a Republican or Libertarian. He probably wouldn’t have a chance, but he’d a great addition to the race.
More coverage at Antiwar.com
Update: Further news from the Washington Post:
HOUSTON — Rep. Ron Paul, the iconoclastic, nine-term lawmaker from southeast Texas, took the first step Thursday toward a second, quixotic presidential bid _ this time as a Republican.
Paul filed papers in Texas to create a presidential exploratory committee that will allow him to raise money. In 1988, Paul was the Libertarian nominee for president and received more than 400,000 votes.
Kent Snyder, the chairman of Paul’s exploratory committee and a former staffer on Paul’s Libertarian campaign, said the congressman knows he’s a long shot.
“There’s no question that it’s an uphill battle, and that Dr. Paul is an underdog,” Snyder said. “But we think it’s well worth doing and we’ll let the voters decide.”
Paul limits his view of the role of the federal government to those duties laid out in the Constitution. As a result, he sometimes casts votes at odds with his constituents and other Republicans.
He was one of a handful of Republicans to vote in 2002 against giving President Bush the authority to use military force in Iraq, contending that only Congress had the power to declare war. At times, he has voted against funds for the military.
Paul bills himself as “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend,” and is routinely ranked either first or second in the House by the National Taxpayers Union, a national group advocating low taxes and limited government.
This will bear watching.
Ron Paul in 2008 or Oceania by 2012…. You decide! The Two Party system is a facade used by the Globalists! You might just as well believe in a WWF championship match as go on supporting the Two Party facade! Let’s take back this country! This is literally our last chance! If we fail this time, then … our future will be nothing more than the image of a boot stomping on a human face forever!
SMadewell…We’re already there! And for those of you who haven’t read the George Orwell classic “1984″, well, fiction has caught up with fact. We’re controlled in every aspect of our lives. WAKE UP PEOPLE! WE NEED TO TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY! Ron Paul will do this.
I’m definitely for Ron Paul and will back him all the way! I haven’t voted Republicrat since Reagan. But am also afraid for Ron Paul’s life if it would look like he might win. Thank God for men like him in this country!!
I believe the bottom line question the supporters of Ron Paul need to address and answer is: how do they gain a majority of American Voters to support Ron Paul during election time.
Before this question can be answered, one must be able to identify a significant goal which a majority of voters consider is a worthy one and one important enough for them to work toward accomplishing.
Since we live in a constitutionally limited Republican Form of Government [see Art. 4, Sec. 4 U.S. Constitution] and are ruled by written constitutions, state and federal, I believe I have identified a common factor responsible for the complaints of a significant number of single interest voters ___ folks in government violating the most fundamental rule of Constitution law which is, a sworn duty to carry out the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was adopted, as they are documented from the historical record during which time our Constitution was framed and ratified!
The irrefutable fact is, there are those who support and defend our written Constitution [the intentions and beliefs under which it was agreed to], and, there are those on the left and right who work to subjugate our written Constitution and the intentions and beliefs under which it was agreed to, and, this subjugation has created a very subtle dividing line in politics that spans across the extreme left wing and extreme right wing who vote during America?s elections.
I believe that a political movement with a fundamental goal to compel folks in government abide by our Constitution, that is, abide by the intentions and beliefs under which it was adopted, would have very wide appeal and cuts across political party lines. Who are potential participants in such a movement? The list appears to be very, very long and includes a number of single interest voters, e.g.: those who support and defend the right to keep and bear arms; those who support the federal government protecting our borders from invasion; those who were outraged over the Kelo decision and the SCOTUS subjugating the intentions for which eminent domain power is granted to government; those who believe the Americans With Disability Act is a usurpation of federal power and nothing more than a clever ?lawyers full employment act?; those who believe Congress and not an un-elected majority on a NAFTA panel, the majority of who may be foreigners, are delegated the power to regulate America?s commerce with foreign nation. This of course covers the NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA, and other un-constitutional creations by which America?s commerce is no longer regulated by the people?s elected representatives. And, let us not forget all those who believe that Roe vs. Wade was an outright usurpation of state authority by the federal government and that the abortion issue is one retained by the people of the various states via the Tenth Amendment and also includes the No Child left Behind Act which is another federal power grab with a dangerous intention by the existing leadership of the Republican and Democrat parties intended by them to be used to control the minds of each succeeding generation?s children, teaching them to be good little tax slaves and subservient to the federal establishment in Washington . And, let us include all those who see the American Civil Liberties Union for what it really is?a domestic enemy of our Constitutionally limited Republican Form of Government which seeks to subjugate the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was adopted! Like I correctly said, the list is very, very long!
A solution to our misery can start right here, right now, by organizing a movement to create the largest demonstration on Capitol Hill in our nation?s history___ a demonstration to demand our federal government abide by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was adopted as they may be documented from the words of those who framed and ratified our written Constitution which can be documented from historical records, and, the primary speaker could be candidate Ron Paul!
NOTE: documenting the intentions of our Constitution from the historical record slams the door shut on and smokes out all those [left and right] who would attempt to peddle their own personal agenda by making the Constitution mean whatever they want it to mean!
Now, how do we start such a movement, a political movement to support and defend our written Constitution and the intentions and beliefs under which it was adopted, or, is it that we are happy to appease ourselves by engaging in table talk and consider talk our contribution in taking back our Country? Would you participate? Would anyone here participate? Any suggestions?
If the defenders of our country and our constitutional system want to make a difference, they must do so before the overwhelming voting public has been made dependant upon government for its subsistence, and they must take quick action to identify themselves as a powerful political force in America with a clearly defined objective which draws significant public support. I believe I have identified a clearly defined objective which all freedom loving people would have an interest in seeing accomplished ___ compelling our public servants, our hired employees, to abide by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was adopted as they may be documented from the words of those who framed and ratified our written Constitution, which can be documented from historical records!
Sincerely,
JWK
The servant has become the master over those who created a servant and the new servant pays tribute by taxation to a gangster government which ignores our most basic laws?our constitutions, state and federal.
Ron Paul is a good man, but if he had any chance of being elected president we probably wouldn’t need his services. I wish him luck though.
Ron Paul gets my vote!!
He takes on the real problem with our republic, thats right I said REPUBLIC, whoever said our forefathers meant to bequeath to us a rotten democracy? The two are not interchangeable! They were very familiar with mobocracy like that of Rome. They always fail over poor fiscal policies. He will go after the monetary system, the (privately owned)Federal Reserve that is no more federal than federal express. This is the root of all evils. “taxes are not collected to carry out wars,wars are carried out to collect taxes” And the private collection agency (who acts under color of law)is none other than our beloved I.R.S. This is it people our last chance to rid ourselves of this “den of vipers” as Andrew Jackson so eloquently put it.Andrew Jackson did not renew the Central banks charter and set theses greedy scumbags back 75 years. He had this simple inscription (in his will)placed on his headstone upon his death “I killed the bank”. As for me I pledge my allegiance to the flag and to the REPUBLIC (NOT THE DEMOCRACY)for which it stands, so please take a stand now, if not for yourself, then for your children and your children’s children. Give them a better life than our parents and grandparents unwittingly left for us.
Stephen D.