On May 1, Ron Paul paid the $25,000 filing fee needed to get in the Republican Party of South Carolina’s presidential primary. The fee is so high because the party pays for the administration of that primary. Paul was the fourth candidate to pay it. Earlier, Sam Brownback, Rudy Giuliani, and John McCain had paid it. Those who don’t pay the filing fee this month will not be invited into the 2nd Republican presidential debate. That debate is hosted by the South Carolina Republican Party and FOX Network. It is set for May 15.
The parties should pay to administer their own selection rituals. Why should taxpayers pay for a strictly Republican party event like a primary?
In 1995, a federal court ruled that, when the state requires the parties to use a primary, the state must pay the costs of the primary.
This morning, on CNBC, Rep. Ron Paul predicted that John Edwards will win the Democratic presidential nomination. (In the unlikely event that Edwards becomes president, he’ll have to move into a smaller house.)
South Carolina will have the opportunity to votes for less government, less US meddling in the internal affairs of other countries and less bullying of US citizens by the Feds on behalf of the controlling elites. During the primary part of the 2008 Presidental elections, Ron Paul will be the only candidate for the regular citizen and not under the influence of the elites who control the major media, the educational institution and the government.
YES! Ron Paul is America’s only hope! Constitutionalist for the win!
He should have been included anyway simply because he’s #2 in NH…
Thank God Ron Paul paid it, he will thrash “anti-free speech and wide open border” John McCain and Rudy “gun grabbing” Giuliani into shreds. The Republicans, save Paul, have long forgotten about the United States Constitution, how did “skull and bones” W describe it? Oh yeah, “It’s just a GD piece of paper”.
RON PAUL Y’ALL!
Of these four wantabes Ron Paul is the only true American Presidential Candidate. The rest are phoney.
Bruce, amen.
Get the word out on Paul, whether people will listen or not, don’t be shy, get his name to come out of you mouth 100 times per day.
Send Paul a small campaign contribution every payday, get the bumper stickers on your car, put them on your friends car, your neighbors car, on the bench at the bus stop…
Relentlessly promote Ron Paul at every turn, get a bull horn and spend an hour on Saturday bull horning a busy intersection or a college campus on a Monday morning.
Start a blog page on Ron Paul, send e-mails to anyone and everyone on Yahoo 360 and myspace.
Start a Ron Paul discussion group in your neighborhood or at your church.
Write Ron Paul songs and send them to local community Radio stations.
Buy a low power AM or FM transmitor and sing the praises of Ron Paul and the vices of the Federal Reserve and IRS.
Push for Ron Paul like the energizer bunny, there is a political party, a country, and a planet at stack. I wish I could say that I am kidding, I’m not.
We are so screwed if he DOESN’T become president, it’s not even funny.
STAKE
The man is sincere, honest and has an important message for America.
Take a moment and listen to what Ron Paul has to say. Do some soul searching, what he says will strike a chord and touch your heart.
Don’t be fooled by the other candidates….
It’s a little dishonest for him to present himself as a libertarian-style candidate but support anti-gay value systems. There’s nothing anti-gay in the Constitution at all.
Make Ron Paul signs! Hang them in your neighborhoods and on freeways. We in the phoenix area have put up over 400 signs:
http://www.rescue-us.org/ronpaulrevolutionhome.htm
Make Ron Paul campaign videos and put them on youtube/google video like this for example:
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Let 2008 be known as the year the people took back America!
There is also nothing anti (or pro) heterosexual in the Constitution at all either. That is the point. Legislation about marriage, if it should be legislated at all, should be done by the States. It is no business of the Federal Governments one way or another. Ron Paul is not anti-gay. He strictly follows the Constitution.
But that whole thing was about reciprocity, which was already established precedent. There was no need for any judge to stretch to reinterpret anything; and Ron Paul knows it as well as I do.
I would also add, the 9th Amendment does reserve to the People sexual freedom. I’m certain that need not be “enumerated” to be understood. In any case, the ideologically pure libertarian would say that the state has no business certifying any marriages at all; and on this point alone his choice to parrot the “judicial activist” line is very curious. Why make a false argument where none is needed?
I’m not saying it’s a deal breaker on Ron Paul but it’s not cool to be put in the position of having to explain this to other gay people. I’ll be watching closely for more on this…..
“Judicial Tyranny”, he’s kidding right?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul197.html
He comes close in the third-to-last paragraph but then he chooses to unite church and state in the final sentence of that paragraph, rather than dividing them as the logic would dictate. He spins his own beliefs! Why, when there’s a perfectly legitimate libertarian argument against marriage…?
Marriage is a religious institution that is were it came from. Therefore any government regulation of it is the government interfering with religion.
And tell me, oh wise one, by “protecting marriage” what is Ron Paul advocating? Regulation of religion.
Doh!
Regulation of religion? It looked more to me like the bill was de-regulating religion, by putting marriage out of the grasp of the gov’t. Paul thinks marriage is a state issue at best, he probably thinks it shouldn’t be a gov’t issue at all, which is my stance. If you take away the gov’t connection, suddenly gay marriage isn’t an issue either, its not legal or illegal. Marriage should be a covenant between two people and their church (you can substitute another social institution there if you wish) not between two people and their gov’t.
I’m pretty sure Ron Paul is not “anti-gay”, at least not in any sense that he would encourage the government to discriminate against homosexuality. What he is, is a strict constructionist when it comes to the Constitution. He simply does not believe the Federal government has any business meddling in the business of marriage, and he’s 100% correct in that.
If someone had a chance to ask him, I’d be willing to bet that he’d say that no government at any level *truly* has any business regulating marriage… but in the context of his position in the House, that bill was completely consistent with his consistently libertarian views.
Go Ron Go!
RON PAUL for President of The United States of America!
GO RON GO!
The facts about Ron Paul’s “conservative libertarian” (at best) voting record tell me that I couldn’t vote for this man even if he supported “gay rights.” I hope to return here with his actual voting / position statements about that subject next. Though a few on this list reflect it, he’s far from a true federal hands off libertarian regarding the majority of the following important (to me) issues:
Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted NO on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
Voted YES on funding for health providers who don’t provide abortion info. (Sep 2002)
Voted YES on banning Family Planning funding in US aid abroad. (May 2001)
Voted NO on federal crime to harm fetus while committing other crimes. (Apr 2001)
NO federal funding of abortion, and pro-life. (Dec 2000)
Voted YES on banning partial-birth abortions. (Apr 2000)
Voted NO on barring transporting minors to get an abortion. (Jun 1999)
http://www.issues2000.org/TX/Ron_Paul.htm
This one is under the general topic of Civil Rights at http://www.issues2000.org/TX/Ron_Paul.htm
Voted NO on making the PATRIOT Act permanent. (Dec 2005)
Voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
Voted YES on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
Voted NO on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)
Rated 67% by the ACLU, indicating a mixed civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
Voted YES on banning gay adoptions in DC. (Jul 1999)
Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions. (May 1998)
I think the facts of his votes speak for themselves. This guy is all over the place, even voting contrary votes on the same subject.
For example, though his supporters like to tout his vote against a Constitutional amendment to bar gays and lesbians nationwide from being issued a marriage license, he has no problem barring gay people from adopting!
With that vote in his record alone, he’s toast with the gay community, a fact which won’t bother most of his supporters anyway.
Any Democrat who would switch to the foul nest of the Republican Party in 1998 just because he knew which way the wind would be blowing for a long time to come, is simply looking to be branded an opportunistic hypocrite.
His voting record bears out that characterization, IMO.
While Dr. Ron Paul’s voting record SEEMS to contradict his positions, you MUST look further. RP will not vote FOR any law that is contrary to the Constitution. If a proposed law is outside of the powers granted government, he is guaranteed to vote “no.” RP is totally consistant with his voting record and I am so proud of him!
You have to realize that Ron Paul always votes with the Constitution, which is the values our country was founded on. Realize that even if an issue is morally right, which would be an opinion because everyone holds different values, if its not constitutional, it’s an automatic no from “Dr. No”.
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