NYT: Now For A Real UnderDog [RP '88]

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A good read if you haven't seen it.


Ron Paul is, above all, patient.

As the Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, Dr. Paul knows he will do well to get 2 percent of the vote on Nov. 8. Still, the 53-year-old physician and former Congressman continues to travel the country virtually without a break, trying to get into newspapers and on television, giving speeches and preaching his party's philosophy of ''get the Government off our backs'' to students at colleges and high schools.

''Get rid of the personal income tax,'' he declared at the University of Houston recently. Then he added: Bring American troops home, abolish the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency and dismantle every other agency except the Justice and Defense Departments.

nytimes.com/1988/10/17/us/now-for-a-real-underdog-ron-paul-libertarian-for-president.html?src=pm

It takes 30 years to become an overnight success.

[mwkaufman]

Randall Paul, Dr. Paul's 25-year-old son and aide-de-camp, said the campaign has raised about $2 million and spent most of it, including $500,000 to get on ballots everywhere except North Carolina, West Virginia, Indiana and Missouri. The party is still fighting to be included in Missouri.

Randall Paul campaigned for a Libertarian?

[LawnWake]

In his first year in office, Dr. Paul says, he would cut one third of the Pentagon budget, or $100 billion, and $100 billion in domestic programs.

Compare that to today's numbers.

Oh wow.


A man who relishes a fight with hecklers, he sometimes draws angry reactions.

WHERE IS THIS PAUL? I thought he just showed these kinds of balls in that TV show with the chainsmoking troglodyte and the fat kid. Where did all that confidence and fire go? Last time we got a glimpse of that was when he was attacked by Santorum on foreign policy. Dude was almost screaming.