Posted under Election 2012 & Ron Paul
We are told “Put not your trust in princes”, which is pretty sound advice. Indeed, Raimondo’s latest column at Antiwar.com hit the point hard.
But it should be pointed out the people who say this are older and thus wiser by their experiences. But I myself am still fairly young (not quite 40) and thus I still have enough youthful and foolish idealism left for one more fling with a presidential campaign, that being Ron Paul’s in 2012.
In what form this takes I do not know but I don’t expect it will be standing on a street corner during a parade handing out flyers. I hope its something worthwhile and even if it isn’t I really don’t care. I’m happy to see Ron Paul get back in the ring for one last serious try before I grow old and completely cynical as one naturally does. I’m sure there are many who have done the same before they finally grow up, one last attempt at glory.
The 2007-08 Ron Paul campaign experience was a lot fun and a wonderful experience, even if we didn’t win anything. This would be true even if it was in vain, but it wasn’t. I believe and evidence backs me up the campaign accomplished a lot in changing politics, even if for the long haul as Raimondo says.
We are told not to put our trust in princes and yet most people at least one prince they admire strongly or feel they’ve been influenced by or whose lives they’ve been impacted by. For some it’s Ronald Reagan, others John F. Kennedy, still others Franklin Roosevelt, Barry Goldwater, Robert Taft or Paul Wellstone etc. Myself and many others feel the same way about Ron Paul, otherwise I wouldn’t be writing this.
So here we are again, four years later on the cusp of another campaign. If I lose my youthful idealism in the process, I’ll happily fling it away dreaming than have kept it to myself for nothing. Sometimes you need a big, successful campaign to show those in it for the “long haul” they can be rewarded for their work someday. With this, hopefully I’ll see you all in Ames once again.
Kirt Higdon on 28 Apr 2011 at 11:01 am #
If Ron Paul had a chance of winning in a democracy, especially one with an electorate as corrupt as that of the present day US, I don’t think I’d trust him. He’d already be too compromised. His candidacy to me is a platform to give somewhat greater exposure to ideas I try to promote anyway. I had my fling with trust in princes during the Reagan years. I don’t blame him for deceiving me; I deceived myself. Lesson learned.
Bede on 28 Apr 2011 at 6:56 pm #
If you look at the numbers for US debt, the US is doomed. I doubt even Ron Paul could save it at this point. Who in the heck would want to be president at this point in time and inherit these unfixable problems?
C Bowen on 28 Apr 2011 at 11:03 pm #
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.
Woden on 29 Apr 2011 at 5:38 pm #
Not looking good…
http://www.vdare.com/washington_watcher/110428_immigration.htm
Sean Scallon on 29 Apr 2011 at 6:38 pm #
The immigration debate is pretty much over whether VDARE.com wants to admit it or not and it probably won’t be much of an issue in 2012 unlike four years ago.
Woden on 30 Apr 2011 at 9:14 am #
The debate to a large extent may have been successfully stifled, but the problem certainly hasn’t gone away.