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| United States, Boone : Ron Paul speaks at the town hall in the Erickson Public Library during a campaign stop on December 8, 2011 in Boone, Iowa. (AFP Photo / Kevork Djansezian) |
Herman Cain
got secret service protection. Michele Bachmann has a big, fancy bus.
Congressman Ron Paul isn’t like other Republicans, however. At least not like
those who have chased the GOP’s bid for the 2012 election.
The road to
the White House is a bumpy one but Rep. Ron Paul is okay with that. So are his
supporters in Iowa, apparently, who have come to appreciate the
could-be-president’s lack of fleer while dismissing the mainstream media’s
smear campaign against the congressman.
To many, it
isn’t the way the establishment — now terrified of Paul’s surge in the polls —
portrays the candidate. It’s the way the congressman has stuck to his gut
during his decades in public office.
"He's
the only consistent conservative out there," J.C. Weiand, a law student
who attended a Paul rally in Fort Madison, Iowa, tells the Associated Press.
"For 30 years, he's been preaching the same message. Now his time has
finally come."
Paul was
pegged as a possibility for the Republican Party’s nomination since he launched
his campaign, but only in recent weeks has his popularity finally propelled him
to the top. While scandals cost Cain his campaign and Rick Perry’s poor public
appearances have dragged him down in the polls after once being a frontrunner,
Paul has only soared with support as of late.
The
mainstream media has attempted to take down the libertarian-leaning Republican
in recent days by unearthing antiquated messages penned under Paul’s name. The
congressman has dismissed allegations that he was responsible for the
questionable material, but that isn’t keeping the establishment from attacking
him over it. Fed up with repeated questioning, Paul walked off the set of a CNN
interview earlier this week. Even without the support of corporate news,
however, Paul is still finding positive numbers thanks to his ability to
approach topics from an angle that his party competition won’t dare dig into.
While other
candidates have waged for increased military spending and weakening the
Constitution to crush the civil liberties of Americans, Paul is trying to take
the US out of foreign wars and reinstall freedom for every citizen. As America
counties to be ripped by wars and the Pentagon is hemorrhaging money for the
sake of executing civilians, Paul’s soft-spoken but solid ideas are finding an
audience sick with the establishment.
To others,
Paul is simply bridging a gap their neither the left nor right can cover on
their own.
“I think
the most important thing is the philosophy I’m talking about is the
Constitution and freedom,” Paul said during a recent debate in Sioux City,
Iowa, “and that brings people together. It brings independents into the fold
and it brings Democrats over on some of these issues. So therefore I see this
philosophy as being very electable because it’s an America philosophy.”
“Dr. Paul
is surging in Iowa and New Hampshire because he is exactly what the voters have
been looking for,” Paul spokesman Jesse Benton adds to ABC News. “He governs on
principle. He is consistent and does not flip-flop. And he is the only
candidate who will really cut the spending and balance the budget so we can get
back on our feet and create jobs.”
“It's not
impossible, but 2012 could be the year that there will be just two parties.The
Ron Paul Republican Party and the Democrats,” Ron Paul supporter Robert Timsah
writes in the Examiner on Friday, “The Democrats would feature, John McCain,
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. I call this the
war party, and of course, Paul's being the anti-war party. “
If Timsah
is right and it comes down to those two, Paul says he already knows the outcome
there.
“The
challenge isn’t all that great on how we’re going to beat Obama. I think he’s
beating himself,” Paul said at the debate in Sioux City. “I think really the
question is, what do we have to offer? And I have something different to offer.
I emphasize civil liberties. I emphasize a pro-American foreign policy, which
is a lot different than ‘Policemen of the World.’ I emphasize, you know,
monetary policy and these things that the other candidates don’t talk about.”
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