Libertarians for Ron Paul » Campaign 2008
Allen Buckley is running an active campaign as the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senator from Georgia.
Mr Buckley touts himself as a fiscal conservative for today and tomorrow. He pledges to fight for fiscal responsibilty, and to challenge the deceptions that led America into its disastrous war with Iraq.
More info @ http://buckleyforsenate.com/
Steve Chapman @ Reason Magazine wonders if there is a strategy to Hillary Clinton’s lies http://reason.com/news/show/126203.html
“Ron Paul owns the future,” influential evangelical Doug Wead concluded in an early April post on his personal blog. Wead makes an unlikely Paul enthusiast: his religious background might seem a better fit for Mike Huckabee. And his personal history—as an adviser to both Presidents Bush—might have inclined him toward the triumphant establishment candidate, John McCain. But in Ron Paul and the movement that championed him, Wead saw something remarkable: “His is a campaign of ideas. … His army was left unchallenged on the battlefield. Now their ideas have taken root and they will grow.”
Yes, they will—they have already begun to. The Ron Paul “revolution,” as it is known to its adherents, has made deep inroads into an area where Republicans are otherwise weak: energizing and mobilizing young people. Already, Paul has inspired other Republicans, mostly young themselves, to campaign for Congress on his antiwar, fiscally conservative platform. A new youth movement is also coming into being as Students for Ron Paul reconfigures into a permanent libertarian-conservative activist organization, Young Americans for Liberty. And these are just the first manifestations of the revolution’s second act, as youth gains political experience.
Campaign insider Daniel McCarthy talks about the future of the coalition that Ron Paul has inspired
The Las Vegas Sun reports that:
“Rep. Ron Paul, a Republican with a libertarian’s heart, followed his second-place finish in Nevada’s January presidential caucus by out-organizing the state’s Republican establishment. In the process, the Paulites embarrassed the campaign of Arizona Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.”
“They seemed to make up more than half of the 1,300 or so state delegates to the convention. They won a key procedural vote on the rules, and their boisterous presence created significant delays, causing the convention chairman, Bob Beers, a state senator from Las Vegas, to recess the convention without selecting delegates to the national convention. The state convention is to resume at a later date.”
Full story http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/apr/27/ron-paul-campaign-dominates-convention/
Yahoo reports it here http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080423/cm_thenation/45314454
Congressman Ron Paul received 16% of the vote, more than 127,000 votes in Pennsylvania. This is more votes than any Libertarian candidate has received for office in Pennsylvania, and shows that the desire for freedom is not completely absent in the Northeast. Congratulations Dr Paul!
Robert Poole of the Reason Foundation looks at problems with Sen. McCain’s proposal for a summer “gas tax holiday” and proposes a better solution to lift the tax burden from drivers - privatise the roads http://www.reason.org/outofcontrol/archives/2008/04/mccains_gas_tax.html
Stephen Chapman looks at McCain, Clinton and Obama, and finds that they are unprepared to deal with the economic meltdown of America that President Bush has left us: http://reason.com/news/show/125522.html
Ron Paul’s Friday announcement that his presidential campaign will soon wind down removes from the race a quixotic figure whose doomed pursuit of the White House inspired libertarians and free-market purists, including many business owners who loved his message about a nation free from regulatory fetters.
“Imagine what it would be like if we had no income tax in the country?” says Donald Huffines, co-founder of Dallas residential development company Huffines Communities and a Ron Paul donor and fundraiser. “I don’t think anyone would do more for business - small or large - than Ron Paul. He would eliminate the role of government in our business lives, and the GDP growth of the country would skyrocket as a result.”
Paul’s groundswell played out in the grassroots. His average donation size was just $102, according to his campaign, but he led the GOP field in fundraising in 2007’s last quarter, bringing in $20 million. Paul plans to continue fundraising for a succeeding organization to his campaign, one that will continue pushing “the message of human liberty,” he said in a video message posted Friday on his website.
full story @ http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/07/smbusiness/ron_paul.fsb/?postversion=2008030719
ABC News announced that Ron Paul is suspending his presidential campaign.
He issued a video to his supporters.
Ron Paul won the Republican primary for Congress in Texas CD 14, receiving more than 70% of the vote. He was challenged by Chris Peden, member of the Friendswood City Council, who attacked Congressman Paul over his opposition to the Iraq War, and charged that Ron Paul is a liberal on social issues.
No Democrat has filed to run against Congressman Paul, so he is virtually assured of re-election. Congratulations Congressman Paul!