"We do have some differences and our approaches will be different, but that makes him his own person. I mean why should he [Rand] be a clone and do everything and think just exactly as I have. I think it's an opportunity to be independent minded. We are about 99% the same on issues." "People Try To Drive Wedges Between Rand And Me." --Ron Paul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=pB5JgzBVHN0
I haven't been registered to vote long enough to say the party moved on without me. I joined knowing the party, especially the party in Maine, had lost it's way - though admittedly in 2006 I did not realize it to the extent that I have now. But I am willing to put my time an energy into changing this, because I realize that so long as the two parties are in power and placing road blocks for third parties, you have to work within the parties to enact change. Ron Paul realizes this, and that is why, while he is offering a level of support, he is not running third party himself and instead urging that we stay involved in the Republican party as he is.
“One of the greatest delusions in the world is the hope that the evils in this world are to be cured by legislation.” - Thomas Brackett Reed
The Difference between Democrats and Republicans
http://differencebetweendemocratsandrepublicans.com/
An accurate, quick and easy read.<IMHO>![]()
This state allows three kinds of registration--demopublican, republicrat and independent. It is very weird being registered something besides independent after all these years. Very weird. Yet, with good liberty candidates to help in local elections and a taste of working within the party at the conventions under my belt, I'm not stopping now.
Ron Paul has a good point. Stealing the apparatus from the thieves is easier than building from (or practically from) scratch.
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More Awful Truths About Republicans
http://mises.org/story/3098