Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.'s Blog, page 2731

Tom Woods on the Iowa Debate

Writes Tom, speaking for the Revolution PAC:

Once again, Ron Paul distinguished himself in a Republican presidential debate by telling Americans the truth, answering the questions he was asked, and refusing to treat his countrymen like ten-year-olds who should be spoken to in bumper-sticker slogans.

On the economy, everyone talked about lower taxes, cutting spending, and a balanced budget - the usual boilerplate. Only Ron Paul sought to explain why we have recessions in the first place. Only Ron Paul mentioned the critical role of the Federal Reserve System in blowing up the bubbles that have popped in America over the past decade. Only Ron Paul explained that the monetary system we have, whereby money can be created out of thin air whenever the political class wants it, is a recipe for the very kind of disaster we are living through right now.

To be sure, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich had some critical words for particular Fed policies, but surely his recent criticism of the Fed is one of the exceedingly rare times, if not the only time, he has made serious mention of the Federal Reserve in over three decades in public life.

The only reason any of them will even talk about the Fed is Ron Paul, who took the issue from the depths of obscurity and turned it into a live issue for the first time in the nearly one hundred years of the Fed's existence.

But where Congressman Paul really stood out, of course, was in foreign policy. He dismissed the comments of the neoconservative former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum as "war propaganda," which indeed Senator Santorum can be relied upon to parrot at every opportunity. He explained that the history of U.S. relations in Iran did not begin with the hostage crisis in 1979, as Senator Santorum tried to pretend. It began with the U.S./British coup in 1953 that brought the oppressive shah to power, and it was resentment over his police state that turned Iranians against the U.S. Before the U.S. government's interventions in the Middle East, Americans had an excellent reputation in that part of the world - another piece of history our political class ignores.

Our delicate ears are not supposed to hear the kinds of things Ron Paul told Americans tonight. We're supposed to hear "USA! USA!" We are supposed to be flattered, told our leaders have infallible judgment, and urged to believe that anyone who questions that judgment, or who thinks anyone around the world might have a legitimate grievance against the American political class, "hates America." Given how many grievances we Americans have with our political class, is it really so hard to imagine that other people might, too?

Everyone on the stage wanted to talk about budgets, but only Ron Paul pointed out that the wars are costing trillions of dollars, with a sixth war being seriously contemplated. This is pure insanity, and the only person who will level with the American people about it is Ron Paul.

It's hard to imagine one person being so consistently and thoroughly vindicated as Congressman Paul. On the economy in particular, he has been warning for decades about the certain outcome of our monetary system and economic policies. The world is now beginning to undergo the exact convulsions he predicted would result.

Ron Paul is the only person on that stage who has the slightest grasp of what is happening in America and around the world right now. All they can do is repeat GOP talking points. Ron Paul knows the economics and the history inside and out.

Dr. Paul, who is often too humble even to say "I," rarely points out in such a setting that he, along among the candidates on stage, had been so prophetic about all this. That is where Revolution PAC comes in. We're not humble at all. We intend to brag about Ron Paul like crazy. It is a scandal that Americans could even consider another candidate when a man of the intelligence and integrity of Ron Paul stands before them. He alone told us what was coming. He alone can point the way to a better future for America.

What Can I Say?

Ron Paul is a hero. Though he was ignored in the beginning of the debate tonight, his answers on war and peace were the most magnificent ever heard in politics. Indeed, on the cost of war and empire as well as states rights, monetary policy, the Fed, the business cycle, and every other area, Ron Paul was also courageous, passionate, eloquent, and 100% right. Wow! He was on fire. He won easily against the 7 neocons by simply telling the truth. He won the debate by simply being Ron Paul, the greatest champion of freedom, peace, and sound economics in the history of American politics. If the people of Iowa are decent, if they deserve a man this good, they will give him a landslide in the straw poll. I was encouraged that the audience at the debate clearly agrees with me.

Headaches

Says Debbie Ayers:

If Michele Bachmann's migraines are to be an issue, why is Herman Cain's stage 4 cancer never mentioned?

Ron Causes Traffic Jam

At Jim Ostrowski's Western NY Tea Party.

Ron Smells Victory

On Saturday. (Thanks to Brad Funkhouser)

A Message From Neocon Central

Commentary: If Ron wins the Ames straw poll, and well he might, it will discredit the straw poll, not help Ron. Right, boys. And Iraq will be a cakewalk.

Stepping Up the Myth-Making

Drudge asks of Gardasil Rick: "The Man Who Can Save America?"--linking to this laughable panegyric.

Be There!

Ron Paul's fun and important Saturday events in Iowa.

Rick's Tricks

Perry's running. Neocons approve.

Oh Brother

Brent Budowsky implores that spawn of the power elite, Al Gore, to come and reign over us.