Ron Paul: Town crier for radical ideas now taken seriously

Ron Paul

Born:1935, in Pittsburgh

Family:Married, five children

Education:B.A., GettysburgCollege, M.D., Duke University

Early career: Physician, U.S. Air Force, 1963-68; obstetrician

Political career: 1976, elected to U.S. House from Texas in special election, did not win re-election; 1978, elected to U.S. House; 1984, unsuccessful run for U.S. Senate; 1988, Libertarian Party presidential candidate; 1997-present, member of U.S. House; 2008, ran for Republican presidential nomination

 

- McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Paul remembers the day he was transformed from a mild-mannered physician into the feisty political Nostradamus of the Republican Party.

 

 

 

It was the evening of Aug.15, 1971. Then-President Richard Nixon announced that he was taking the United States off the gold standard, which had anchored the dollar based on a fixed amount of the precious metal.

 

 

 

"He just, by executive order, ended the gold standard, put on wage and price controls, put on tariffs," Paul, R-Texas, recalled in an interview with McClatchy. "And I thought that was bad news for America and it was going to usher in an age of rampant inflation and financial bubbles and, finally, bankruptcy."

 

 

 

Nixon's actions launched Paul's four-decade political career. At times it's been a lonely journey. Paul has predicted a coming U.S. economic Armageddon, with hell to pay for overly aggressive American military and foreign policies. He also has called for a strict interpretation of the Constitution. At times his views were greeted with derision and laughter, even within his own party.



But a funny thing has happened to Paul as he runs for president a third time: Some of his positions once dismissed as kooky or quirky don't seem so bizarre anymore to many voters or to his fellow Republican lawmakers.

 

 

Federally funded bank bailouts, trillion-dollar deficits, high unemployment and the nation's weariness with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have caused some Republicans to view the 76-year-old Paul in a different light.

 

Ideas find favor



Many of his ideas are now part of the GOP playbook, including some that once deviated from Republican doctrine. Now they all want to tame federal spending and debt and to rein in the federal government. And increasingly, many Republicans are considering reducing America's military and diplomatic role overseas. Some even favor Paul's long crusade to return to the gold standard.



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Comment by Cryptocurrency on December 27, 2011 at 3:45pm

Ron Paul for the big win! Hey, if everyone gets down to the polls and convinces one of their friends to accompany them, we can win this thing. Think BIG!! Let's double our numbers with minimal effort. Work smart not hard right!?

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