Lucille
05-16-2011, 08:27 AM
CURL: Ron Paul will win 2012 GOP nomination (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/may/15/curl-ron-paul-will-win-12-gop-nomination/)
No, not Ron Paul, the 75-year-old congressman from Texas and grandfather of the tea party … Ron Paul’s ideas.
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All five, though, share one trait: They’re each brilliant. Yet unlike the others, only Mr. Paul’s ideas will drive the 2012 campaign.
It has happened before — repeatedly, in fact — and will again this time around.
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Fast-forward again, this time to 2012. Mr. Paul, the clear outlier in the 2008 GOP field, again is pushing for limited government, establishing a gold standard, auditing the Federal Reserve, ending U.S. interventionism and enacting massive budget cuts across the federal government. All of his speeches point to the Constitution as America’s guide.
But this time, voters have caught up with him. In 2010, most of those ideas, with the exception of foreign policy, drove the tea party revolution. And now, there is no doubt that the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 will look a lot more like Ron Paul 2008 than Sen. John McCain 2008.
With the possible exception of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, no one wowed the conservatives at CPAC this year as much as Mr. Paul did. He did so with passages such as these:
c “We don’t need to just change the political parties, we need to change our philosophy about what this country is all about.”
c “Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”
c “Congress has a responsibility to protect the value of the currency and that means that we have the moral and the legal authority to put checks on the Federal Reserve system.”
c “The best way to get people to act more like us if we’re doing a good job, is for us to have a sound economy, a sound dollar, treat people decently, have a foreign policy that makes common sense, treat people like we want to be treated.”
And this simple question: “Would you consider opting out of the whole system under one condition? You pay 10 percent of your income, but you take care of yourself, don’t ask the government for anything.”
So a note to all those Republican candidates out there: To win this year, co-opt Mr. Paul’s ideas and run on them. [...]
So keep a sharp eye out for the Paul Candidate. Sure, Mr. Paul himself will be back, pitching his own ideas, but the electable candidate who taps into those ideas, resonating across the country, will be the one who wins the nomination.
Sure, they'll co-opt his ideas, and then forget all about them once in office.
No, not Ron Paul, the 75-year-old congressman from Texas and grandfather of the tea party … Ron Paul’s ideas.
[...]
All five, though, share one trait: They’re each brilliant. Yet unlike the others, only Mr. Paul’s ideas will drive the 2012 campaign.
It has happened before — repeatedly, in fact — and will again this time around.
[...]
Fast-forward again, this time to 2012. Mr. Paul, the clear outlier in the 2008 GOP field, again is pushing for limited government, establishing a gold standard, auditing the Federal Reserve, ending U.S. interventionism and enacting massive budget cuts across the federal government. All of his speeches point to the Constitution as America’s guide.
But this time, voters have caught up with him. In 2010, most of those ideas, with the exception of foreign policy, drove the tea party revolution. And now, there is no doubt that the Republican presidential nominee in 2012 will look a lot more like Ron Paul 2008 than Sen. John McCain 2008.
With the possible exception of Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, no one wowed the conservatives at CPAC this year as much as Mr. Paul did. He did so with passages such as these:
c “We don’t need to just change the political parties, we need to change our philosophy about what this country is all about.”
c “Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.”
c “Congress has a responsibility to protect the value of the currency and that means that we have the moral and the legal authority to put checks on the Federal Reserve system.”
c “The best way to get people to act more like us if we’re doing a good job, is for us to have a sound economy, a sound dollar, treat people decently, have a foreign policy that makes common sense, treat people like we want to be treated.”
And this simple question: “Would you consider opting out of the whole system under one condition? You pay 10 percent of your income, but you take care of yourself, don’t ask the government for anything.”
So a note to all those Republican candidates out there: To win this year, co-opt Mr. Paul’s ideas and run on them. [...]
So keep a sharp eye out for the Paul Candidate. Sure, Mr. Paul himself will be back, pitching his own ideas, but the electable candidate who taps into those ideas, resonating across the country, will be the one who wins the nomination.
Sure, they'll co-opt his ideas, and then forget all about them once in office.