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jct74
11-17-2012, 12:48 PM
well worth the read, give them some traffic for this great editorial


The Ron Paul Awakening

Editorial of The New York Sun | November 15, 2012

One of the things we did this morning was go up on C-Span.org and watch Congressman Ron Paul deliver what is being called his “farewell address.” It is an affecting speech, capping the end of his congressional career; it lasts about an hour. It is about the same length as President Washington’s farewell address. We don’t want to make any inappropriate comparisons between Dr. Paul and the most famous Founder. But we were struck with the similarity between the key themes that Washington sounded and those struck by the Texas Republican who, just in respect of his service in Congress, has regularly over 23 years sworn an oath to support and defend the Constitution over the writing of which Washington presided.

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Our own view is that the congressman should not get quite so down on himself. He believes that the only way to avert a crisis that will bring America to its knees is what he calls “an intellectual awakening.” In our estimation there is something intellectually astir in our republic, and we have no doubt that Dr. Paul has had an outsized hand in starting it. These columns spent the just-ended election campaign pleading for Governor Romney and the rest of the Republican leadership to be more bold in putting out there the kinds of ideas that Dr. Paul has made his trademark, and it has to be said that Governor Romney, in particular, shrank from the task. Such a tack turned out to be tragic.

Dr. Paul’s ideas, though, are more broadly discussed today than at any time we can remember in our career. The constitutional fundamentals (enumerated powers, separated powers, limited government, rights secured by restrictions on government) are being discussed on the airwaves. In recent years voters have handed up to both the House and Senate a number of new, young leaders who grasp these points down to the ground. None of them are laughing at Dr. Paul. They are reading the same texts he has studied, they are working through the problems with an eye on the principles he has pressed at every turn.

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read the whole thing here:
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/ron-pauls-awakening/88079/

specsaregood
11-17-2012, 12:56 PM
The sun has always done Dr. Paul right.

kathy88
11-17-2012, 01:14 PM
Thanks for posting. Love the new avatar :)