How Ron Paul Can Win On Super Tuesday

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Ron Paul is every American's candidate. We just don't know it yet.

Since the beginning of his run for the presidency, Congressman Paul has proven Murray Rothbard's assertion that political libertarianism is popular within the heartland, and that Nock's Remnant, previously invisible, is alive and strong in Red State America.

Ron Paul took fifth place in Iowa and is currently running in South Carolina, behind Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Mitt Romney.

Various minor alterations in strategy could easily catapult him into the front-runner's position.

Since money is no object, and with new supporters and donors joining the Revolution on a daily basis, the Ron Paul Campaign should step up its ads operation.

Ads are meant to appeal to Americans whose primary news-medium is the radio and television. Thousands of people, indeed, the majority of primary voters, have never made the transition to web-based news sources and are still in thrall to the Old Establishment Media of MSNBC and FOX.

Ron Paul needs this bloc of ordinary Republicans to win on Super Tuesday and at the County and State Conventions across the country. Ron Paul needs supporters willing to step up to the plate and serve as delegates to the National Republican Convention.

Ordinary folks, previously apathetic to the political process but now desirous of change are Dr. Paul's natural constituents. Their concerns are Internet regulation, sky-high gas prices, and the cost of living. These are issues that matter more than blurred statements manufactured by the media – global warming and the fear of Islamic terrorism which propelled Rudy Giuliani into front-runner status.

Governor Huckabee's vague "economic populism," appeals to Americans, but the "Man from Hope" offers no concrete solutions.

The Ron Paul Campaign offers practical solutions. Of all the candidates in either of our major political parties, only he addresses matters important to the American citizen.

To vie with other presidential campaigns over issues like defense and border security is important, but these are not issues that will cause Joe Six-Pack to rise from his chair in realization that Internet regulation will affect him personally, just as the ban on Internet gambling did.

The solution to high gas and diesel prices – allowing the open unregulated market to increase production of oil and creating new refineries and nuclear power plants is simplistic, yet must be forcibly stated in order for Americans to appreciate it.

The significance of the Ron Paul Campaign's ads must be clear and direct:

To Americans in general: lower gas prices are the result of deregulation and the suspension of Federal taxes.

"Today, it is possible once again to bring about a dramatic fall in the price of oil – indeed, one even larger than occurred in the 1980s. And it could begin right away. All that is necessary is to abolish the U.S. government's restrictions on domestic energy production inspired by the environmentalist movement." – George Reisman.

There is only candidate who has been consistent on this issue: Ron Paul.

Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate whose answer to high gas prices is not outright socialism.

To Republicans in particular: Ron Paul is the only Republican Candidate who can win in 2008 against either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.

It's really that simple.

Despite the fact that Iraq is relatively stable at the moment, by November 5, 2008, millions of Americans are going to be wondering what, besides a temporary feeling of security, we have gained in return for an immense expenditure of American lives and dollars.

They will not be electing candidates whose platform promises future "foreign adventures" and the expansion of an already bloated "Defense" budget with their tax dollars.

Americans like to back winners, candidates with who are willing to deal with core issues.

Ron Paul is a winner. Moreover, he is also a teacher and a man of ideas, an Apostle of Misean Theory, bringing the premise of genuinely free markets to the receptive masses, inculcated since birth in social and economic Keynesianism, but possessed of a natural desire for individual liberty and the prosperity which results from markets devoid of statist intervention.

Through his campaign, thousands of people around the world have become students of Austrian Economics. Witness the phenomenon of the International Ron Paul Meetup Groups, as men and women the world over take their stand for liberty and free markets, and against Globalism, Statism and U.S. Imperialism.

The Ron Paul Revolution cannot end with Dr. Paul's election to the presidency or with his defeat.

Only by the continued proliferation of Dr. Paul's message can we continue battling the encroaching Nanny State.

Ron Paul supporters are a diverse lot, united in their opposition to establishment politics. When this election is past, why should we separate on sectarian lines and cease to be a united force?

The Meetup Groups are the greatest strength of Ron Paul's insurgent campaign.

They have proven a valuable tool in political campaigning and will therefore shortly be under the state's scrutiny as politicians continue the de-legalization of genuine Grassroots political campaigning.

There will be negative repercussions, incidents involving the nature of Meetup Groups which will necessitate calls for regulation by the Federal Government.

That's why it is important for Ron Paul to win on Super Tuesday.

Americans must learn exactly what Ron Paul stands for, and what the other candidates do not.

It's time to go negative – and not just on Mike Huckabee. South Carolina and every other state in the Union need to hear about Tax-Hike Mike. Republicans should know that Mr. Huckabee left the Arkansas Republican Party in shambles. As Governor, he repeatedly placed his presidential aspirations before the best interests of his Party. Consequently, Arkansas now has a Democratic Governor, and two Democratic Senators.

Republicans, want to bet Mike won't stab you in the back again?

John McCain has many skeletons in his closet.

His foreign policy "expertise" comes solely from his many trips abroad, funded wholly by the U.S. tax-payer. Senator McCain fully intends to continue George Bush's "invade the world, invite the world," policies. His cavalier disregard for the Constitution in general and the First Amendment in particular exemplified by his support of the Patriot Act and sponsorship of the McCain-Feingold Act more than disqualify him from the presidency.

Senator McCain bills himself as an "independent" and a "man of the people." Yet, he has never held a job in the private sector.

These facts must be made known to the American people.

This is not a negative ad campaign; it is simply a recitation of the facts about each candidate.

Ron Paul can win.

Win as in beating Rudy Giuliani like a drum reveille.

Win as in giving the Republican Party the shaking of a lifetime.

Win as in building a 21st century coalition of liberty-lovers.

Win as in taking the White House by storm, in 2008.

January 14, 2008