04/26/11 Baltimore, Maryland – On Oct. 30, 2007, we got in a tussle with a reader. Can you imagine?
On that day, it was because we weren’t stumping for Ron Paul as conscientiously as Lew Rockwell.
This morning, we see we may yet get another chance. Dr. Paul is holding a press conference today in Iowa. We’re told he’ll launch an “exploratory committee” – that fateful first step toward a run for the presidency.
In 2007, we suggested the country – pre-Lehman, pre-stimulus, pre-bailouts – wasn’t ready for the medicine Dr. Paul prescribes.
Perhaps now that we’ve seen a few trillion-dollar deficits and a community organizer who’s proven equally adept at military adventurism as his “aw, shucks” predecessor… a few more people are willing to go to the pharmacy… or, at the very least wondering now what that mysterious lump is.
“This would seem to be an ideal year for Paul,” muses the Washington wonk weekly National Journal: “Since the last election, the Republican Party has moved much closer to his view on deficit reduction. All of the party’s top-tier presidential hopefuls are focusing on lowering debt, government spending and tax rates, issues Paul has long advocated.”
“Ron Paul Is Starting to Make Sense,” reads the headline the May issue of Esquire. He “is the most important politician in America today,” the profile begins, “because he’s the rare politician – maybe the only politician – who always says exactly what he really believes.
“Unlike Paul Ryan, Haley Barbour, Mitt Romney, Mitch Daniels and Mike Huckabee, who all raised taxes while calling for lower taxes, Ron Paul gives us a chance to examine the ideas currently driving the conservative movement in their pure form.”
We’ll see.
One way to examine those ideas is by reading this review penned by our own Gary Gibson.
While Dr. Paul is away in Iowa, the nabobs in Washington are twittering over two “competing visions” of the way forward – the 12-year budget plan of the president and the 10-year plan of Rep. Paul Ryan.
We can see why. The difference between them is “vast”:
Hmmn… shall we raise the national debt by 84% in the next 10 years, or merely 62%? To even suggest the national credit card may be revoked long before then… well, that makes you a “kook” in these parts.
Still for a growing number of people in “flyover country,” it’s starting to make sense… and get real.
Addison Wiggin
for The Daily Reckoning
Addison Wiggin
Addison Wiggin is the executive publisher of Agora Financial, LLC, a fiercely independent economic forecasting and financial research firm. He’s the creator and editorial director of Agora Financial’s daily 5 Min. Forecast and editorial director of The Daily Reckoning. Wiggin is the founder of Agora Entertainment, executive producer and co-writer of I.O.U.S.A., which was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, the 2009 Critics Choice Award for Best Documentary Feature, and was also shortlisted for a 2009 Academy Award. He is the author of the companion book of the film I.O.U.S.A.and his second edition of The Demise of the Dollar… and Why it’s Even Better for Your Investments was just fully revised and updated. Wiggin is a three-time New York Times best-selling author whose work has been recognized by The New York Times Magazine, The Economist, Worth, The New York Times, The Washington Post as well as major network news programs. He also co-authored international bestsellers Financial Reckoning Day and Empire of Debt with Bill Bonner.
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With this announcement, I’m registering Republican so I can vote for him in the Republican primary. Hopefully more RP supporters will do the same. Ron Paul is awesome!
After supporting Ron for decades, it’s about time…just hope it’s not to late for USA
I am READY!! Getting my liberal family members to register republican for Dr. Paul too! Liberty really does bring people together.
Things are not bad enough for Republicans to support him in the primaries. They do not want to downsize the military just like Demcrats do not want to cut domestic spending. Both parties will crash the dollar soon. After the crash we can get silver and gold dollars, end the Fed, reform entitlements and bring our troops home. Real change is coming.
Misguided militarism is your problem. When is the USA going to get over it. Dropping expensive bombs in Afghanistan and Pakistan is dumb and dumber. Soldiers crawling all over Iraq and Afghanistan …. good grief.
Ron Paul is the cure, that’s why he doesn’t have a prayer. America is like a lung cancer patient chain smoking in a hospital bed.
Politicians don’t get elected by promising to put a lock on the liquor cabinet (and being sincere about it).
Remnants scrambling to copters, rickety planes, bicycles, motorcades, or whatever movable vehicles. The looming Tet offensive would overrun the besieged Saigon any moment. The outcome was written all over the face. Straight set result! By thumb rule it didn’t require a rubber game. Referee has blown the last whistle and called it a day.
Out of the blue, came the monetary infiltration. Dramatic social upheaval. By Geneva convention of cross border war, it doesn’t permit the use of paper bullet that is soul damaging.
I would be happy to vote Ron Paul in 2012
Ron Paul’s moment? in POLITICO’s Arena, Grover Norquist responds:Ron Paul brings energy and a great number of young activists into the Republican Party and the broader conservative movement http://bit.ly/g9d3So
Ron Paul is the Tea Party candidate with the best voting record but being against the foreign wars is still considered a weakness to the Repubs so how can he get the nomination? If he does,will he get a trip to Bilderbergers? LOL
While it may be true that the Repub and Dems will nominate only a candidate that will keep up the statists status quo I do think that Ron Paul’s message will have to be coopted by whoever the counterfeit candidate is, like last election. The Obama Deception, see it on Youtube.com?
Ron Paul’s medicine will be very bitter to swallow and this will make it difficult to get elected. Voters usually prefer to ignore nasty options until they fall them on the head. I would be surprised if it will turn out different this time.
Be fun to see just how much WALK he has to go with all that TALK.
No one man is going to cure this country’s ills. The whole national attitude has to be changed and I don’t see that happening…
Hope I’m wrong…
I will be changing my party registration to vote for Ron Paul, and I will be sending him my financial support. I don’t agree with all his views. The one thing he does have the power to do, as commander in chief, is get us out of the wars. That alone, will reduce our deficit.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
America is a nation of morons who do not deserve the last great patriot, Ron Paul. As the old republic disappears beneath the jackboots of Obama fascism, Americans will wallow in their monumental stupidity right until the very end.
To borrow a turn of phrase from my fellow blogger John Reilly, Ron Paul is a Fortean personality whose candidacy indicates that American history has gone off the main sequence. He might do some good for all that, but it will likely be outweighed by all the bad going on in spite of him.
One Man cannot make a difference, yes this is true. What we need is to heed his words. Ron Paul is the ONLY voice of reason among corrupt men. We should allow him to be the greatest mentor of this age to show us how to turn the tide of this Nation that has lost it’s credibility. We should be willing to be part of the “RON PAUL REVOLUTION” We should be backing, supporting, informing others about this MAN that I believe was born for “Such A time as this” HE WILL WALK THE TALK,
Love RP but don’t think he has any chance. We’ll get a couple of face-(wo)men that the Joe Averages can get tribal about while the rest of us watch in horror. Again.
Interesting and informative post. Thank you for your effort. Nice work Addison.