Ron Paul

How old is Ron Paul now? It seems he has been running around making trouble for republicans forever. And we need to make trouble for some republicans, those big government types to whom politics is a profession and government the solution.

But he’s not a republican. He’s not a conservative. He’s a libertarian.

If Ron Paul and his libertarian types were to establish their own nation and all leave,the entire 5% of them, another 5% of this nation would magically become just like them. This libertarian strain, this isolationist vein is ingrained in the spirit of this nation.

I am sure Ron Paul types played important parts in the birth and founding of our nation. And we have always had isolationists who believed we should retreat from the rest of the world. Some might call it xenophobia. Charles Lindbergh was an America First isolationist, standing firm against the United States entering the Second World War.

And the Ron Paul types have strong analytical skills. They see associations that maybe we all should be making. They easily understand the relationship of the words of our Constitution and what they were meant to convey, and even more importantly why they were written as they were written. They understand the Constitution’s value.

Some of Ron Paul’s ideas have been considered wacky. His monetary policy was considered lunacy but now many claim he was right all along. They believe his policies on the Federal reserve to be spot on and would eventually turn this country around.

Yet many other associations Ron Paul and those like him make are just plain goofy, period. His isolationist foreign policy is backward and would be detrimental not only to the United States but the entire world. We cannot allow Iran to build a nuclear arsenal. They will use it against Israel and the United states either directly or indirectly. We cannot close our bases around the world and stay secure. And where we should not guarantee foreign aid year after year to nations who then have no ongoing incentive to be our friends, I don’t believe Ron Paul would help any nation. I could go on about the fallacies and dangers of his foreign policies but they are self evident.

And this is the problem with Ron Paul and all isolationists. They are cold calculating and their empathy for others extends only to those in their immediate circle. Look how easily Ron Paul can go on the Tonight Show and nonchalantly accuse other candidates, supposedly in his same party, of being haters.

Ron Paul doesn’t care about the republican party and he doesn’t truly even care about this nation. He is on the verge of doing well in Iowa and possibly other early primaries. The problem is he will not win the nomination and then will take his popularity as a justification to run on a third party ticket, …because he does not truly care about this nation. His third party run would only hurt the republican ticket. I can only hope that a third, or possibly fourth, party run by Donald Trump would draw from the democratic base.

But there is a productive option. Make it a three person ticket. That is, if we can truly get a conservative on the ticket, our candidate needs to not only to choose a vice presidential candidate but to declare that he or she will nominate Ron Paul to run the Federal Reserve. This could keep him from running as a third party candidate.

But more importantly declaring Ron Paul as a potential head of the Federal Reserve turns the focus back to congressional races. The Senate would have to approve his appointment. The makeup of the Senate would become an issue. Congressional races would become an issue.

The numerous presidential debates have taken the focus off congressional races. The tea party has had its greatest victories in the congress. Victories I am sure the big government types do not want to see continue. Ron Johnson from my state of Wisconsin has challenged the power structure of the Senate as a freshman member. Other freshman tea party members are making a stir themselves.

Over the last …six months? I have heard only a few comments on the many quality truly conservative tea party types running for congressional seats. Yes, only a few comments and maybe they were all six months ago.

The presidential debates continue to be used as a tool of the big government types to try to shape the 2012 elections. They would love Ron Paul to run as a third party candidate and that may be why he is supposedly rising in the polls. They would love Mitt Romney to be the republican candidate. And they certainly don’t want any more shake ups in congress with more tea party types winning elections.

Do they want Obama to be reelected? Does Ron Paul want Obama to be reelected? As long as he can get his 5%.