Steve Teters
10-28-2011, 04:03 PM
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Ron Paul Endures by Sticking to Constitutional Principles
By Richard A. Viguerie | 10/28/11
Congressman Ron Paul recently came away the winner of the monthly CHQ Republican presidential straw poll. Despite the rise – and fall – of other candidates, Dr. Paul has routinely been at the top of CHQ viewers’ presidential picks. With the bulk of the media-sponsored GOP debates behind us, and Paul never having been handicapped as the winner of any of them, it is a good time to ask, “Why does the Ron Paul candidacy endure?”
The answer from the CHQ perspective is pretty simple – Dr. Paul’s candidacy continues to endure because he runs on constitutional principles and rarely panders to the establishment.
And he’s been running that way for going on 40 years.
Take as the most recent example of this phenomenon Congressman Paul’s plan to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in one year. If you drill down into the details of the plan, it is really pretty simple -- get the federal government out of the business of doing all the unconstitutional things it is now doing.
One example of a program Paul would do-away-with (that the establishment media has jumped-on, and Congressman Paul has defended with faultless logic) is the federal student loan program.
In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Congressman Paul correctly pointed out that there is no Constitutional authority for the government providing or guaranteeing loans to individuals, such as students.
He also went on to make this important point, “And just think of all this willingness to want to help every student get a college education. So they're a trillion dollars in debt. We don't have any jobs for them. The quality of education has gone down. So it's a failed program…”
Student loans have now passed the trillion dollar mark and many students have little or no immediate prospect of meeting their obligations. Obama's answer to this problem is to provide student loan “relief,” by basing repayment on income. Ron Paul's answer is to get back to Constitutional principles, and to get the government out of the business of giving or guaranteeing loans to private individuals (which would also stop the federal government from distorting the labor market by inducing students to buy a college education they neither need nor can afford).
Like every candidate, Ron Paul has some blemishes on his record – his 2008 endorsement of notorious big spending earmarker Congressman Don Young was a notable disappointment – but whether Ron Paul wins the Republican presidential nomination or not, his 40-year crusade to hold the federal government to Constitutional principles has had a huge and positive impact on the public discourse.
hxxp://www.conservativehq.com/article/5218-ron-paul-endures-sticking-constitutional-principles
Ron Paul Endures by Sticking to Constitutional Principles
By Richard A. Viguerie | 10/28/11
Congressman Ron Paul recently came away the winner of the monthly CHQ Republican presidential straw poll. Despite the rise – and fall – of other candidates, Dr. Paul has routinely been at the top of CHQ viewers’ presidential picks. With the bulk of the media-sponsored GOP debates behind us, and Paul never having been handicapped as the winner of any of them, it is a good time to ask, “Why does the Ron Paul candidacy endure?”
The answer from the CHQ perspective is pretty simple – Dr. Paul’s candidacy continues to endure because he runs on constitutional principles and rarely panders to the establishment.
And he’s been running that way for going on 40 years.
Take as the most recent example of this phenomenon Congressman Paul’s plan to cut $1 trillion from the federal budget in one year. If you drill down into the details of the plan, it is really pretty simple -- get the federal government out of the business of doing all the unconstitutional things it is now doing.
One example of a program Paul would do-away-with (that the establishment media has jumped-on, and Congressman Paul has defended with faultless logic) is the federal student loan program.
In a recent interview with Sean Hannity, Congressman Paul correctly pointed out that there is no Constitutional authority for the government providing or guaranteeing loans to individuals, such as students.
He also went on to make this important point, “And just think of all this willingness to want to help every student get a college education. So they're a trillion dollars in debt. We don't have any jobs for them. The quality of education has gone down. So it's a failed program…”
Student loans have now passed the trillion dollar mark and many students have little or no immediate prospect of meeting their obligations. Obama's answer to this problem is to provide student loan “relief,” by basing repayment on income. Ron Paul's answer is to get back to Constitutional principles, and to get the government out of the business of giving or guaranteeing loans to private individuals (which would also stop the federal government from distorting the labor market by inducing students to buy a college education they neither need nor can afford).
Like every candidate, Ron Paul has some blemishes on his record – his 2008 endorsement of notorious big spending earmarker Congressman Don Young was a notable disappointment – but whether Ron Paul wins the Republican presidential nomination or not, his 40-year crusade to hold the federal government to Constitutional principles has had a huge and positive impact on the public discourse.