Libertarians for Ron Paul

Judge Andrew Napolitano is one of American media’s most tenacious defenders of Americans’ rights. His official title at Fox News, where he appears regularly on Fox and Friends and The Big Story, is “Senior Judicial Analyst.” But at the often Bush-besotted network, the decidedly skeptical Napolitano thinks of himself more as “House Civil Libertarian.”

Brian Doherty interviews Judge Napolitano for Reason Magazine.

Judge Napolitano says “Congressman Paul has rejuvenated almost single-handedly the Goldwater wing of the GOP. Now Reagan tried, before [James] Baker and his boys advised him on how to behave. Now, I loved the man, but if you look at his record and rhetoric, they are two different things. But Ron Paul had made it legitimate again for small government, maximum individual liberty, Goldwater Republicans to come forth and complain about big government, and I am the recipient of lots of those complaints.”

Full interview http://reason.com/news/show/123496.html 

“Those who dismissed Rep. Ron Paul as a joke in the Republican presidential primary campaign aren’t laughing so hard these days.”

“The Texas libertarian’s rise in the polls and in fundraising proves that a small but passionate number of Americans can be drawn to an advocate of unorthodox proposals such as returning to the gold standard and abolishing the income tax, CIA and Federal Reserve.”

“Paul, 72, recently set a one-day, online GOP presidential fundraising record, and pulled slightly ahead of Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee in a New Hampshire poll, where he had 8 percent of the Republicans’ support. In Iowa, he tied John McCain for fifth place, with 4 percent each.”

Full A.P. Story http://tinyurl.com/yo8qo6 

Last night the Bloomberg Financial Network ran a report on the declining value of the U.S. dollar. The dollar is trading at a historic low against the Euro, and has declined against the Pound Sterling and the Yen. The dollar has lost value as compared with the Colombian Peso and the Indian Rupee.  

The neo-con oriented New York Sun comments that Rep. Ron Paul understands what is happening to the U.S. dollar - and predicted it in advance. In an editorial today, they state  “Our own view is that Mr. Paul’s prescience on the dollar is one of the reasons he’s showing what the pundits are calling surprising strength on the hustings.”

Full editorial http://www.nysun.com/article/66303 

The national Libertarian Party issued a scathing criticism of the Republican Party’s fiscal performance after the Treasury Department’s announcement that the national debt had reached an all-time record of $9 trillion this week. “The fact that the national debt has risen by more than 800 percent in an era dominated by Republican presidents will be the obituary of fiscal conservatism in the Republican Party,” says William Redpath, national chairman of the Libertarian Party.

It took from George Washington to Ronald Reagan for the national debt to hit the $1 trillion mark–a period of more than 190 years.  Now, 27 years later, the national debt has risen more than 800 percent under three Republican and one Democratic presidents. However, only $1.2 trillion of national debt was accrued during President Bill Clinton’s administration, meaning the bulk of national debt comes from Republican administrations.

“It’s tragically ironic that Republicans have crucified themselves on their own cross of fiscal irresponsibility,” says Redpath. “Even Reagan, who has been deified by Republicans as the stalwart of conservatism, ran deficits and vastly expanded the size of government.”

 full release http://www.lp.org/media/article_537.shtml 

“Ron Paul’s head-snapping fundraising puts a new face on a campaign that the media, politicians and much of the public had relegated to the sidelines.”

“The Texas congressman is now the presidential candidate tugging at the establishment’s coat.”

“Funneled almost entirely through the Internet, Paul’s one-day loot totaled $4.2 million from about 37,000 donors, considered the largest sum ever collected online in a single day by a GOP candidate.”

“Paul is indeed an online force who attracts support from people who do not fit easily into the standard Democratic and Republican political pigeonholes. His fame, as much as it is, stems from the political shorthand that has defined his candidacy: The only Republican opposed to the war in Iraq.”

“But Paul leans libertarian in his ideology and cites the Constitution as his guide. He opposes law enforcement or anti-terrorism measures that he believes encroach on civil liberties.” Complete AP story @ http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/11/06/ap4308418.html

“Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, aided by an extraordinary outpouring of Internet support Monday, hauled in more than $4.2 million in nearly 24 hours,” reports The Associated Press. “Paul, the Texas congressman with a libertarian tilt and an out-of-Iraq pitch, entered heady fundraising territory with a surge of Web-based giving tied to the commemoration of Guy Fawkes Day.”

In a statement released today, Michael Tanner, Cato’s director of health and welfare studies, writes: “Ron Paul’s extraordinary fundraising success is a clear sign that there is a yearning by the Republican grassroots for the party to return to its historic small-government roots. Paul’s message of limited government, free markets and peace obviously has touched a chord. Perhaps the other candidates and the big-government conservatives in Washington should take notice.”

In the last 10 hours, Ron Paul has raised over $1 million online.
Today is Guy Fawkes Day, and to celebrate, 19,000 Ron Paul supporters have signed up to give at least $100 each to the online campaign today.

We are on track to get over $2 million by the end of the day, but we need to try to get to $3 million to clearly establish the all-time record for any candidate.

Give now at the Ron Paul home page.

You can track the donation rate on several graphs, undated every few minutes.

“Washington is bankrupting future generations. The longer we wait to address the $9 trillion national debt and ongoing annual budget deficits, the more taxes our children and grandchildren will have to pay, says David M. Walker, comptroller general of the United States, head of the General Accountability Office and just about the only public official in Washington these days telling the truth about the country’s fiscal situation. We’re basically taxing future generations without representation (because they can’t vote or haven’t been born), which he says is immoral. ”

Jay Hancock at the Baltimore Sun gives details on  the “Fiscal Wake Up Tour” undertaken by the Comptroller General to warn about the coming financial disaster. Excerpts from Mr. Walker’s comments include:

Walker: President Bush’s Medicare drug plan and the way it was sold to Congress and the public was “unconscionable.” The true, $8 trillion pricetag “was never calculated, disclosed or debated.”

Walker: The $9 trillion national debt is much more important than the budget deficit. Through the miracle of compound interest on the debt, he says, it will eat up more and more of the country’s resources.

Walker: The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are “going to cost $2 trillion by the time we’re done.” [They're up to around half a trillion now.]

Full report http://tinyurl.com/3av5qu