Retort: Ron Paul supporters aren't foolish

Dan from Prayeramedic and 390days posted a response to yesterday's post by BigGipper Lessons from Ron Paul and since I know some of you don't read the comments, I've moved this valuable continuation of the debate up to a main post, thanks Dan for keeping the debate alive:

"I found this article interesting from a marketing perspective, but from a political and ideological standpoint it is insulting. You said:

"... although many of Ron Paul’s positions are out of touch with mainstream America to say the least, he was still able to sell this message to people of many political persuasions, most of whom felt disenfranchised or left out of politics altogether. However draconian his words may have been, they captivated people."

This dismisses everything he and his followers stood for as foolish, completely disregarding the reality that his followers had such success because they believe in his political message -- because it is the only differing political voice on the scene. He stands for the Constitution - Republicans and Democrats should try that some time.

As of yet, both parties have failed to produce even one candidate (besides Paul) who upholds the Constitution. That's why people are listening, not because of his personality cult. Sure some jumped on the popularity bandwagon, that's why Obama won, but a majority of Paul's followers faced scorn even from within their own party - he was not a popular candidate to support.

Remember Dr. Paul predicted this financial crisis years ago and has continued to be the only real "conservative" candidate, supporting less government and less spending.

Ron Paul said that if we continued to run our economy on runaway government spending, endless amounts of debt and the insanity of letting the Federal Reserve control our currency then eventually the United States economy would crash.

Did that not happen?

But neither party is seeking to end this orgy of debt. Instead both parties pushed the "Wall Street bailout" and both parties want to spend even more money.

Ron Paul said that the United States cannot police the world. If we bomb countries, invade countries and torture everyone in sight then people around the world are going to hate America.

Did that not happen?

But neither party is seeking to end the wars. Instead Obama is promising to keep troops in Iraq for at least 18 more months, and he is promising to send a lot more troops to Afghanistan and he has talked about how we may need to send troops into Pakistan and Sudan.

Ron Paul said that if we passed the "Patriot Act" and these other fascist police state pieces of legislation that we would lose our individual liberties.

Did that not happen?

But neither party is taking any action to repeal the Patriot Act.

"The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is." -Ronald Reagan (1975)

When will people start listening to Ron Paul?

Ron Paul recently appeared on FOX News with Neil Cavuto to discuss the latest bailout package.

The following are a few key quotes from that interview:

"When companies get too big and make mistakes they should fail."

"We’re propping up all the bad mistakes."

"Governments can’t make the correct decisions. They aren’t smart enough."

"This whole idea that Washington are geniuses… that they can do central economic planning. In this country we don’t call it socialism, we call it interventionism and a planned economy."

Watch this interview at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnrA6ewaZrw

But is anyone listening?

No.

Obama and his advisors seem determined to take us even further down the road of big government, big spending, bailouts and socialism.

So is there any hope for the future?

What we could really use is a reformed Republican Party led by Ron Paul that would embrace a platform of smaller government, less taxation, abolishing the Federal Reserve, returning our individual freedoms and liberties and protecting our nation's borders and sovereignty.

Here is an excerpt from Congressman Ron Paul's latest "weekly straight talk":

"We will face more tough economic problems during this new administration. In fact, the worst is yet to come. A vast amount of problematic mortgages have not begun to reset their variable interest rates and go into default. We already have unprecedented deficits, spending is out of control, and more big industries are coming to government with their hands out. My hope is that this administration will handle this economic crisis better than the interventionists and big government spenders of the 1930’s, the bureaucrats that prolonged the Depression. I hope that new government programs and spiderwebs of red tape do not pop up to interfere with American productivity, and that we can quickly get our financial footing again. We have to understand that an economic correction needs to take place and the only way out of the coming recession is to go through it. Efforts to avoid it can only prolong it. I hope we can somehow find our way back to sound money and reject corporate cronyism".

If the American people will just wake up then perhaps the movement that Ron Paul has begun can give us hope for the future!"