Yeah, I had the same problem; the confirmation e-mail will just have to suffice!

We have had the chance to mingle and speak with Dr. Paul at some length as he has been in the crucial SC Upstate a good bit. For those of you who don’t know, WYSIWYG! [what you see is what you get]

Dr. Paul is not a phony.

I was at the Clemson rally on Friday and had the chance to speak with a gent from Dr. Paul’s congressional district who was in the overflow crowd. He was on staff or a professor at Clemson I guess. He said and I quote pretty much verbatim:

“You know what would really shock these kids [most of the crowd was Clemson students] is that this is the same speech that he [Ron Paul] has been giving for 30 years.”

Folks this is the real deal; and today is the day.

My advice is to have camera or cameraphone in hand and snap a pic of your own name as it scrolls across the http://www.ronpaul2008.com/ website after you make contribution on this, the day the Paulites fire the second “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”!

You will have one of the best family treasures anyone can have to show their posterity that when FREEDOM called; you were there!

i will never forget the days my boys and i got to meet dr. paul and the photos he so graciously agreed to and, of course, the autographs!

it was a very special day for my family and i know it was for you and your wife too!

god bless,
sunny

ps let’s get this truly great statesman in the white house !!!

I’ll also say that it took me a lot of life experiences, questions, and study to get to the point where I am now in almost perfect agreement with Rep. Paul’s Constitutional philosophy as articulated in his writings over the past ten years (www.ronpaullibrary.com). I certainly didn’t get there overnight. Economically speaking, it took me years of asking questions and facing cognitive dissonance to get to the point that I really appreciated the power of free people, and free markets… even though so many people still believe it’s preferable to take control away from individuals and give it to governments/bureaucrats.

I only hope that enough folks can “wake up” and learn about this stuff more quickly than I did!

Thanks for your input. I’ll check out the http://www.ronpaullibrary.com as soon as I can.

I am dismayed at how long the campaigns have become, but with the internet, at least that allows some time to access a site like this sounds and really look at policy and position papers for a candidate.

The media do us all a great disservice with their sound-bytes, both in reporting and in debates.

I have enjoyed the more in-depth interviews on PBS’s News Hour, as an example of the kind of input we each need to pay attention to. I used to watch and read a lot more, but politics is far more influenced now by poll numbers and I am frustrated that it takes so long to ferret out what might be the ‘real’ position on a topic.

Ron Paul seems like a straight-talker — far more than any other politician for quite some time. Libertarians tend to be that way, for as underdogs, they are used to having to use the podium during the election as the usually last chance for exposure for the Ideal.

Paul seems to have flown low on the radar and produced a track record in the fold of the Republicans and yet separate.

We desparately need some viable third and fourth political parties in this country.

I wish the Greens had continued nominating a candidate this year, and where is Perot’s group? If Ron Paul can strengthen the Libertarians, then people will have another chance to think in a new way.

Personal responsibility and independent thinking are the most valuable tools and necessities to keep an electorate really free. Anything less is a sham of sheep shuffling from the sameness to sameness of the LCD of any issue.

I really hope that Ron Paul and a few others will succeed in waking the American Public. Our liberties have been on-the-line for 8+ years, and even though there are brave people to defend them, more and more of our liberties are being lost to indifference, ignorance or cowardice than for any other reason.

Time to rebuild America’s real legacy — and make it one that we can offer as a beacon, again.

Best to all — Em
http://diabetesdietdialogue.wordpress.com

This is my first time visiting your blog. I will keep an eye out here, now.

I have seen a little of Ron Paul, in various interviews, and have listened closely to those that were in-depth and not just sound-bytes.

I hear many things that interest me, and always hear some positions that are up to 180 degrees from mine.

There are only a couple of others (in both parties) who I am willing to pay attention to, surprisingly more Republicans this year than ever, but many of them are “iffy” as to viability.

I will say that many of the people I am watching and mulling-over are the ones who do their best in this too-”guided” political “game” to really tell-it-like-it-is — the best they can, and to be as personally-honest as they can be in today’s politics.

I hope this campaign will finally ignite the fire in many more people to serve and to participate. As a 61 year old, I’ve seen too many changes in this country (all downward), and I hope the upturn is NOW, before it is really unsalvageable.

I hope that the electorate will really get involved, and that one of these people wins. We need real Change, real Dialogue, real Action, real Service.

We need to involve the Youth, too, in the real, not virtual, world.

Once one of these candidates is elected, I hope they have the courage to insist upon real Campaign Reform and that it will be the top of the agenda, especially in regard to funding elections, length of allowed service and timing of primaries as well as verifiable systems of casting ballots and counting votes. Nothing is “safe” in this country until the Vote is secure. Remember what has happened the last two elections!

And, I think we need to regain our Hope and have more than an empty “Pride”. Being an informed, active citizen is what people like my father fought for us to have the right to be, and I hope to pass along a better America, as my legacy, too.

Get involved. Get others involved. Let there be a real Dialogue this time.

Best to all — Em
http://diabetesdietdialogue.wordpress.com

I became especially passionate about the campaign after returning from a few weeks in China this summer. The differences between a “closed” and “open” society are a matter of degree, not absolutes. “Free speech zones”? In America? In the end, China was an amazing place… and I really had to look hard to find any differences between them, and us.

While so many Americans are ready to learn from history, look ahead, and move forward together, we still have to contend with folks like @MJ who speak of “idols” and prefer to toss labels around that divide us among ourselves.