Conservative Heavyweights Stick Up for Ron Paul

Conservative Heavyweights Standing Tall for Ron Paul.

 

Conservative John McLaughlin ended 2007 with two last words for Iowa and New Hampshire: “Ron Paul”. McLaughlin is an intellectual heavyweight and a conservative whose television show has attracted the “sharpest minds, best sources, and hardest talk” for the last 25 years. Through it all, McLaughlin has proven capable of going toe-to-toe with any pundit, anywhere, anytime. Between the Christmas and New Year episodes of McLaughlin Group, the Ron Paul theme dominated the discussion. McLaughlin had already named Paul the “most distinguished” in an early Republican debate, but the accolades flowed like milk and honey in the last two episodes, culminating in McLaughlin’s naming of Ron Paul as “Person of the Year” for “injecting the presidential campaign with a dose of truth serum”. Wow.

 

Conservative Pat Buchanan promotes Paul’s platform all over the pundit circuit (see 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7). Buchanan was New Hampshire’s 1996 Republican nominee and he has held fast to original Constitutionalism in spite of the Party’s outright abandonment of it. While other Republicans freely float over to the big government, liberal side of the political waters, Pat Buchanan has been an ideological anchor for the Party. So much so that when the Party strays too far off course, Pat Buchanan just stays put and gives himself a new Party name until they come back. In the interest of full disclosure, Buchanan has stated that he has not endorsed Ron Paul yet, but the mere fact that he needs to explain that is rather revealing.

 

Newt Gingrich was the Republican Speaker of the House during the Clinton Administration who implemented a new "Contract with America". In this video he explains that Ron Paul's success issues from his strict adherence to the Constitution, honesty, and candor.

Victor Gold was an advisor to Goldwater and a recent author of the book, Invasion of the Party Snatchers. There, he explains how the conservative movement was co-opted by the neoconservative movement, which promptly destroyed the party (and the country) out of a lust for power. In this interview with Bill Moyers, Gold explains that Ron Paul is the only real conservative with a 2008 presidential bid. He explains the irony that the rest of the Party has strayed so far from Goldwater-conservatism that Paul sounds like an outsider.

 

Barry Goldwater’s family has given Ron Paul an outright endorsement. Goldwater was the architect of the modern conservative movement. He sacrificed himself for a 1964 presidential bid that he knew he could not win: “The Country is not ready to assassinate two presidents in twelve months”, but in the process, he turned the Republican Party toward a brand of thoughtful, intellectually-formidable Conservatism which ushered the 1980 candidacy of Ronald Reagan. Barry Goldwater Jr., who has announced his endorsement of Ron Paul was a Congressman from Arizona who has held fast to his father’s theory of conservative governance. He explains that Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who maintains these views.

 

Paul is not without detractors, however. Neoconservatives are lining up to take shots at Paul without really explaining how or why he is wrong. Bill Kristol, who has been dead wrong about foreign policy for the last eight years, recently called Ron Paul a “crackpot” and said that Paul “hates America”. Kristol, who has never served in the military, has been pushing an invasion of Iran after issuing disastrously incorrect predictions about Iraq. Bill Maher asked Kristol to “sit this one out”. David Shuster also called Ron Paul a crackpot on Morning Joe. When Ron Paul called into the show to challenge him, Shuster was at a loss to explain how or why the comment was justified.  

 

I admit that when I got onboard with the Ron Paul Revolution, I had a few reservations. The media’s portrait of Paul as a radical and his supporters as “fringe” gave me pause. I questioned whether I liked Paul because his views were sound or simply because he thinks outside the box. The latter can be dangerous. Discovering that every Republican with a capacity for abstract thought backs Paul has been a boon to my confidence in the movement. Discovering that every neoconservative who has been wrong on foreign policy opposes Paul didn’t hurt my confidence either.

 

Join this imposing band of conservatives and take back the GOP. Join the American mayors, wall-street traders, and quick-witted Texas judges (see this video) who will be voting for Paul in the next couple of months. Join the troops, who overwhelmingly donate to the Ron Paul campaign compared to any other, so they can leave this fruitless war and return to their families. Join the younger voting generation who will otherwise have to suffer the consequences of a government that taxes children before they are conceived and runs the national debt to epic proportions. Don’t vote for mere charisma without a governing philosophy (Mike "Chuck Norris is my plan for governing" Huckabee), or candidates who beg for a second chance after successive mistakes (John “We came to Washington to change Washington, but it changed us” McCain), or who morph their platforms for your vote (Mitt "whatever" Romney). Stop this trend toward economic disaster and revoke the neoconservatives’ licenses to govern. Join the only Republican who stays Republican, even when it’s inconvenient.