Bruno
11-11-2009, 06:36 PM
I don't hear a "NO" in the answer
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2009/11/11/ron-paul-just-gotta-ignore-2012-questions/
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul seems to harbor few regrets about his 2008 campaign for president and even fewer thoughts about prospects for 2012.
Paul, a Texas Republican, will be in Iowa Friday night and Saturday — his first trip since the 2008 presidential election. He speaks Friday night at Iowa State University and will headline a fundraiser on Saturday for Rep. Kent Sorenson of Indianola, who’s running for the Iowa Senate.
He said in a phone interview today that people often talk to him about running in 2012. “I just sorta, gotta ignore ‘em,” he said. “It’s too early, way too soon. I’m not thinkin’ about that.”
Noting that he’s filed to run for re-election to Congress, he said he “has no real long-term plans. I plan six months to a year ahead.”
He said his Iowa trip and his speech last Monday at University of South Carolina — another early-nominating state — stem from his interest in talking to young people. “I’m just looking for opportunities to turn things around philosophically,” he said. “College students love to hear about personal liberty and personal freedom and personal choices and of course, this whole idea of getting our troops home, they’re very receptive.”
Paul, an unconventional Republican with a wide libertarian streak, made numerous Iowa trips during his 2008 campaign and was a strong Internet fundraiser, but lagged behind other campaigns in building a ground organization in Iowa. Even so, he drew big crowds at Iowa State in the days before the Jan. 3 caucuses and won some campus precincts that year. He finished fifth in the caucuses.
“In many ways, I didn’t have super-high expectations and many others thought we did fantastically well,” he said. “I think you can always do better. When you look back you can see all the things you could have and should have done.”
But he said, he feels “a lot was achieved and we stimulated a lot of people and there’s been a lot of followup” through his own organization, Campaign for Liberty, and also Young Americans for Liberty.
Iowa’s chapter of Campaign for Liberty is hosting his speech at 7 p.m. at Benton Auditorium in ISU’s Scheman Building.
I just started reading Paul’s new book, “End the Fed,” which encapsulates his argument that the Federal Reserve Bank should abolished.
“It’s the engine that allows governments to get too big and they fight wars that they shouldn’t be able to fight,” he said in the interview.
I’m finding the book to be pretty educational about how our monetary system came about and what it’s become. Paul’s position is radical, to be sure, but the movement to limit the power, secrecy and monopoly of the Fed seems to be picking up support from widely varied segments of society.
Just last month, about 60 Iowans with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement demonstrated against several major banking institutions in Chicago, along with hundreds of members of related groups. Their focus was more on bank finance of payday loans, but demonstrators also expressed support for allowing Congress to audit the Fed, one of Paul’s proposals.
Even Paul wouldn’t immediately shutter the Fed if he had the chance. That would be “very chaotic,” he said. But if he had the ability to make changes today, he said he’d start by legalizing competition for the Federal Reserve. For example, he said, he worked with some Mexican lawmakers on legislation allowing citizens to put their pesos into silver-backed accounts.
If you go to Paul’s speech on Friday, a note for planning: There’s also an ISU basketball game at Hilton Coliseum and a 7 p.m. concert at nearby C.Y. Stephens auditorium. Local organizers say parking will be available on the north side of Scheman (that’s the side closest to Lincoln Way), but you’ll need to tell the parking attendants you’re going to the Scheman event so they’ll let you through.
The Sorenson fundraiser is at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the ballroom at the Des Moines Airport Holiday Inn.
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2009/11/11/ron-paul-just-gotta-ignore-2012-questions/
U.S. Rep. Ron Paul seems to harbor few regrets about his 2008 campaign for president and even fewer thoughts about prospects for 2012.
Paul, a Texas Republican, will be in Iowa Friday night and Saturday — his first trip since the 2008 presidential election. He speaks Friday night at Iowa State University and will headline a fundraiser on Saturday for Rep. Kent Sorenson of Indianola, who’s running for the Iowa Senate.
He said in a phone interview today that people often talk to him about running in 2012. “I just sorta, gotta ignore ‘em,” he said. “It’s too early, way too soon. I’m not thinkin’ about that.”
Noting that he’s filed to run for re-election to Congress, he said he “has no real long-term plans. I plan six months to a year ahead.”
He said his Iowa trip and his speech last Monday at University of South Carolina — another early-nominating state — stem from his interest in talking to young people. “I’m just looking for opportunities to turn things around philosophically,” he said. “College students love to hear about personal liberty and personal freedom and personal choices and of course, this whole idea of getting our troops home, they’re very receptive.”
Paul, an unconventional Republican with a wide libertarian streak, made numerous Iowa trips during his 2008 campaign and was a strong Internet fundraiser, but lagged behind other campaigns in building a ground organization in Iowa. Even so, he drew big crowds at Iowa State in the days before the Jan. 3 caucuses and won some campus precincts that year. He finished fifth in the caucuses.
“In many ways, I didn’t have super-high expectations and many others thought we did fantastically well,” he said. “I think you can always do better. When you look back you can see all the things you could have and should have done.”
But he said, he feels “a lot was achieved and we stimulated a lot of people and there’s been a lot of followup” through his own organization, Campaign for Liberty, and also Young Americans for Liberty.
Iowa’s chapter of Campaign for Liberty is hosting his speech at 7 p.m. at Benton Auditorium in ISU’s Scheman Building.
I just started reading Paul’s new book, “End the Fed,” which encapsulates his argument that the Federal Reserve Bank should abolished.
“It’s the engine that allows governments to get too big and they fight wars that they shouldn’t be able to fight,” he said in the interview.
I’m finding the book to be pretty educational about how our monetary system came about and what it’s become. Paul’s position is radical, to be sure, but the movement to limit the power, secrecy and monopoly of the Fed seems to be picking up support from widely varied segments of society.
Just last month, about 60 Iowans with Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement demonstrated against several major banking institutions in Chicago, along with hundreds of members of related groups. Their focus was more on bank finance of payday loans, but demonstrators also expressed support for allowing Congress to audit the Fed, one of Paul’s proposals.
Even Paul wouldn’t immediately shutter the Fed if he had the chance. That would be “very chaotic,” he said. But if he had the ability to make changes today, he said he’d start by legalizing competition for the Federal Reserve. For example, he said, he worked with some Mexican lawmakers on legislation allowing citizens to put their pesos into silver-backed accounts.
If you go to Paul’s speech on Friday, a note for planning: There’s also an ISU basketball game at Hilton Coliseum and a 7 p.m. concert at nearby C.Y. Stephens auditorium. Local organizers say parking will be available on the north side of Scheman (that’s the side closest to Lincoln Way), but you’ll need to tell the parking attendants you’re going to the Scheman event so they’ll let you through.
The Sorenson fundraiser is at 9:30 a.m. Saturday in the ballroom at the Des Moines Airport Holiday Inn.