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Inkblots
04-18-2010, 09:07 PM
It has the obligatory knocks about the old newsletters and advocating a sustainable foreign policy, of course, but it also has this:


Our own view of Dr. Paul, however, is different. It has been formed in the process of covering his campaign for sound money on and off for nearly 30 years, starting with his membership on the United States Gold Commission at the start of the Reagan presidency.
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Where are Ron Paul’s critics in that fight? It is one thing for Dr. Paul’s critics keep a lookout for signs of bigotry. It is another for high-minded critics to go missing in the fight for sound money, which, after all, is another moral issue. We are now in a period in which the dollar has collapsed to less than 1,000th of an ounce of gold, but a quarter of what it was worth at the start of, say, George W. Bush’s presidency and but half of what it was worth when, say, the Democrats acceded to their latest leadership of the Congress. It is a catastrophe that hurts all Americans, of all races, and imperils our civil society.
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Is the fact that Dr. Paul is out front on the monetary issue related to the fact that he has emerged with such strong poll numbers? That is something for his critics to think about. Our sense of it is that the American people are ahead of the political elites in respect of the dollar. As the federal government has debated its own fiat currency, there are already stirrings at the state level to use the constitutional power of the states to make gold and silver coins legal tender. When all the drama in respect of, say, Goldman Sachs has come and gone, Ron Paul will still be correct that at the bottom of the trouble lies the fact that we didn’t have sound money able to transmit the accurate price signals that need for a free economy.
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/reckoning-with-ron-paul/86919/

I'd encourage you to read the whole thing. I'm honestly shocked that this appear in the mainstream press.