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Congressman Ron Paul Hints At 2012 Presidential Campaign
“It’s something I think about every
single day”
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 Texas
Congressman Ron Paul has hinted that he is strongly considering
another Presidential run in 2012.
Paul, who previously ran for the Republican nomination in 2008
and under the Libertarian Party in 1988, told an interviewer
that “It’s something I think about every single
day,”.
The Congressman's comments came during an interview with his
former House colleague, Bob Bauman, legal counsel for The Sovereign
Society - an independent investment advisory group.
Paul said it would "be a tough decision", but that
he believes the American people are ready to embrace a new political
direction.
The comments have not been picked by by mainstream media sources
as of yet.
The Congressman has previously
downplayed rumours of another Presidential campaign,
saying it is unlikely. However, following a string of successes
in recent
surveys and straw polls, including victory in the
Conservative Political Action Conference's (CPAC) presidential
straw poll, it seems Paul is now reconsidering his earlier statements.
The full Sovereign Society interview with Ron Paul can be heard
here
(registration required).
Paul's comments add weight to more recent rumblings that he
may once again pick up the presidential campaign mantle in 2012.
Earlier this year the Congressman's wife, Carol, stated "If
you would ask him now he would probably say 'no', but he did
say...things are happening so quickly and fast in our country,
if we're at a crisis period and they need someone...with the
knowledge he has...then he would do it."
Jesse Benton, Senior VP of Paul's advocacy group Campaign for
Liberty, has said of the prospective run: "If the decision
had to be made today, it would be 'no', but he is considering
it very strongly and there is a decent likelihood that he will.
A lot of it depends on things going on in his personal life
and also what's going on in the country."
At the height of Paul's 2008 campaign, dubbed the Ron Paul
Revolution by supporters, the Congressman smashed the all-time
record for political donations on one day, beating John Kerry’s
previous effort as he hauled
in over $6 million dollars during a 24-hour period
that coincided with the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea
Party.
Indeed, as we have continuously highlighted, The Tea Party
movement, originally Libertarian in origin, grew out of this
trend of honouring the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party.
An event held in 2006 was repeated in 2007 with the Ron Paul
Money bomb, and the movement evolved from there over the following
three years.
As part of an effort to encourage Ron Paul to run for president
in 2012, a Tea Party moneybomb has been set up with the aim
of repeating those previous successes. The goal of The
Ron Paul Tea Party is to have 100,000 people donate
$100 each on December 16, 2010 to kick off Paul's 2012 presidential
bid, should he decide to run.
Infowars' Alex Jones has
personally pledged support to the Draft Ron
Paul movement, noting that Paul is the only candidate who
will inject real issues into an otherwise sterile debate format
and that everything he has been warning the American people
about for decades is coming into fruition as we approach 2012.
Whether neocon and corporate Republicans like it or not, Ron
Paul has had and continues to have a far reaching impact upon
the direction of the party. Every rare intelligible thing that
Sarah Palin has said regarding limited government, fiscal economic
policy and the restoration of freedom is taken straight from
the Ron Paul handbook.
The core difference between Paul and Palin is that the Congressman
has built a real grass roots following over the course of several
decades. Paul is the real deal, while Palin, Romney, McCain
and Gingrich, on the other hand are all neocons at the core,
supporting the invasion and occupation of sovereign nations
in step with the grossly bloated empire building military industrial
complex. Never pandering to the crowds, Paul has consistently
hammered home this key difference.
Of the current crop of possible 2012 GOP presidential candidates,
Ron Paul is once again the only one truly in step with the majority
anti-war, anti-big government sentiment in America.
The Texas Congressman has also been instrumental in leading
a grass roots revolt against the real culprits behind the economic
collapse, the Federal Reserve, introducing a bill to audit the
private organization which has received widespread support from
both Republicans and Democrats but has been fought at every
turn by elitists in Washington.
If you thought the impact of the Ron Paul Revolution in 2007
and 2008 was damaging to the new world order agenda, then imagine
what kind of momentum could be built up over the next few years
as we head towards 2012, which globalists have marked down as
a key juncture by which they want their global feudalist system
firmly in place.
It almost seems like fate that the Congressman should lead
the mass resistance to the globalist agenda at this crucial
time in history, and we implore him to take on that hefty responsibility
while guaranteeing that the grass roots will rally behind him
with a ferocity never before seen in recent political times.
Photo credit: Genevieve L
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Steve Watson is the London based writer
and editor at Alex Jones' Infowars.net, and regular contributor
to Prisonplanet.com. He has a Masters Degree in International
Relations from the School of Politics at The University of Nottingham
in England.
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