http://www.ronpaul2012.com/who-is-ron-paul/

Congressman Ron Paul of Texas enjoys a national reputation as the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. Dr. Paul is the leading spokesman in Washington for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies based on commodity-backed currency. He is known among both his colleagues in Congress and his constituents for his consistent voting record in the House of Representatives: Dr. Paul never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. In the words of former Treasury Secretary William Simon, Dr. Paul is the “one exception to the Gang of 535″ on Capitol Hill.

Ron Paul was born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Gettysburg College and the Duke University School of Medicine, before proudly serving as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force during the 1960s. He and his wife Carol moved to Texas in 1968, where he began his medical practice in Brazoria County. As a specialist in obstetrics/gynecology, Dr. Paul has delivered more than 4,000 babies! He and Carol, who reside in Lake Jackson, Texas, are the proud parents of five children and have eighteen grandchildren.

While serving in Congress during the late 1970s and early 1980s, Dr. Paul’s limited-government ideals were not popular in Washington. He served on the House Banking committee, where he was a strong advocate for sound monetary policy and an outspoken critic of the Federal Reserve’s inflationary measures. He also was a key member of the Gold Commission, advocating a return to a gold standard for our currency. He was an unwavering advocate of pro-life and pro-family values. Dr. Paul consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending, and regulation, and used his House seat to actively promote the return of government to its proper constitutional levels. In 1984, he voluntarily relinquished his House seat and returned to his medical practice.

Dr. Paul returned to Congress in 1997 to represent the 14th Congressional district of Texas. He serves on the House Financial Services Committee and the Foreign Affairs Committee. On the Financial Services Committee, Rep. Paul serves as the chairman of the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. He continues to advocate a dramatic reduction in the size of the federal government and a return to constitutional principles.

Dr. Paul is the author of several books, including The Revolution: A Manifesto, End the Fed, Liberty Defined, Challenge to Liberty; The Case for Gold; and A Republic, If You Can Keep It. He has been a distinguished counselor to the Ludwig von Mises Institute, and is widely quoted by scholars and writers in the fields of monetary policy, banking, and political economy. He has received many awards and honors during his career in Congress, from organizations such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, the Council for a Competitive Economy, and countless others.

Dr. Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one Congressman to comment that “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another Congresswoman added that “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

Compare THAT record to the other candidates!

Those are the kinds of principles someone running for this office should have! Not flip flopping to please voters, a person who sticks by their guns!

Just read an article on FOX news about tonight's debate and not one mention of RP, it was all about Mitt and Newt while mentioning Perry and Bachman. Main stream media needs a good *** ****in'!

You dont count switching political parties everytime you dont get your way and get shot down in a primary elections flip flopping? Wow.

sticking to your guns is only admirable if you are right though,,,,

Because all of the media see Ron Paul for what he is, a fringe candidate. What is really bad is ALL of the different news agencies that never agree on anything agree about this...........

He hasn't been flip flopping on being a racist though..............

I dont know enough about it except for one article written by someone else to label him a racist.

But I do know, unless he is unable to learn, he has been human enough to change his mind throughout his career on some thing or another.

RP ran as a Libritarian "1 TIME" in protest of the Republican principles in "THAT" election cycle!

Since that time the Rep's AND MOST PEOPLE have adopted the policies he ran on, because now EVERYONE is living what he predicted and ran against! This whole election cycle for 2012 is ALL about the things he predicted and stood against, and are the MAIN topics in this cycle because they have become true!

Get your facts straight and turn off the "Faux News"!

All MSM is corporate sponsored news, FAUX NEWS IS CORRUPT, of course they "black out" Ron Paul! He would give America back to the people and they would have to actually have to start reporting news again AND lose their money powered gravy train!

RP is destined for great things but only if he runs as a 3rd party!!

I agree on the 1st part, not the second.

His views are republican in "nature" (his perfered party) and as an independent would have difficulty in trying to reform/return it to it's principals.

Corruption has shaped the "Republicrat" party (compare talking points on both sides for MOST of the candidates) to the point it's "tomatoe or tomato". Same meaning, same desires, same bosses (not the people), same greedy outcome = more of the same! Only Ron Paul stands out of the pack!

The votes aren't in yet! There's still hope for America!

If Ron Paul doesn't surprise the establishment when the polls begin, he has instilled a hope and thoughts of what we can be, what we should be, and ANYONE elected is going to be under the gun to SHOW they mean and stand by the principles they were nominated under!

Either waY, for Ron Paul, IT'S A WIN!

You've been taken but don't know it yet and you may never know it if you don't put down the Kool Aid!

The only hope is for RP to run independent!
Run Ron, Run!

LOL.........you'd believe that he had horns if MSM told you that! You might want to invest a little time doing some independent research rather than being spoon fed the gullible flavored kool-aid the news like FAUX gives you.

Yes, they tout that they are the most trusted news source, but that doesn't make it true. Who else besides them, or another source that is owned by the same snapperhead makes that claim?

Flip flopping? Newt is flip flopping on the issues, there's a difference. But you are so blinded by his "America... &^ck yea!" message that you fail to see the real problems our country faces.

Ron Paul wants to abolish Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, welfare, public education, the post office, public parks, public streets, highways, the EPA, OSHA, USDA, FDA, etc. He wants the government to ONLY do the military. He wants all else privatized and that will cost us more. He also wants deregulation of all industries. He is against government regulation of any kind. Paul has said more than once he believes the Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional. The USA would quickly become a third world country if he had his way.

I respect Ron Paul for taking a stand like this but I believe his policies would ruin the U.S.

He's also 76 years old.

I don't think he wants to abolish all the things you claim. Trim the extra fat yes, move responsibilities to different departments yes, but abolish them altogether? Where did you read that? And even if that were the case, 1 man does not have the authority to do all that.

This really shouldn't come as any big shock really. The media has long since been known to censor and shut out those that go against company line.

And really in the case of at least a few of the conglomerates mentioned there, namely the FDA in particular, they could stand to either be done away with, or told that they actually do the jobs they are supposed to do, instead of playing favorites.

I also think social security should go away as well, or at least give us an option as to whether we wanna invest our money into the future like that. It is not right at all that we are in effect forced to give them our money we work our butts off for, when we really don't even know what's being done with it, and aren't even gonna get it all back. It shouldn't be.

So you wanna talk about ruining the US? I'd contend many of the groups in power, and the policies that currently exist have been doing it for years. Just about anything would be a step up from the mess we have now. The rulers have WAY too much power, it's time we get some of it back.

He's talked about eliminating unconstitutional agencies. That would be a great start.


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/10/17/paul-plan-would-eliminate-cabinet-departments-to-cut-1-trillion/
Representative Ron Paul on Monday unveiled an aggressive budget plan that would greatly shrink the federal government that he is seeking to run, eliminating the agency that oversees airport security, the Departments of Energy and Education and three others, while cutting all war financing.

Providing a stark vision of what a libertarian takeover of the White House would look like, the plan would slash the federal budget by $1 trillion in a single year and, Mr. Paul said, bring the budget into balance within three.

The federal work force would be cut by 10 percent across the board. Aid to foreign nations would stop flowing altogether. And, reflecting the way Mr. Paul would shrink the very job he seeks, the president’s annual salary would be reduced to $39,336 from $400,000.

At a boisterous news conference at the Venetian Hotel here, Mr. Paul did not speak in detail about how he would persuade Congress to approve a plan that would greatly reduce or eliminate programs considered sacrosanct to Republicans and Democrats.

“A lot of people will say, ‘Cutting $1 trillion in one year — that sounds radical,’ ” Mr. Paul said to a room full of cheering supporters. “I operate on the assumption that the radicals have been in charge way too long.”