Perhaps I am reaching but this is what is on the BBC website today about Ron Paul and I quote
Key policies
- Balance America’s budget within three years
- Cut $1 trillion in spending in first year of presidency
- Restore limited federal government by axeing five cabinet departments and cutting federal workforce by 10%
- Cut corporate tax rate to 15%, extend all Bush tax cuts, end taxes on personal savings
- Abolish the US Federal Reserve, eventually return to the gold standard and open currency competition
- Abolish ‘Obamacare’, ending requirement for Americans to have government-approved health insurance
- Bring home troops from Afghanistan and other US bases around the world
- End “war on drugs”
- Make securing borders top national security priority
- Restore civil liberties eroded by Patriot Act
If that is not a ringing endorsement of Ron Paul I do not know what is.
To be fair to the BBC this is the first article I have seen the BBC do which is dedicated to “The Man” and basically it is quite balanced and informative which is not what you would expect.
Of course the article does have its moments where some of the comments are quite offensive, certainly more offensive that the BBC would write about any other candidate but nevertheless it was a reasonable article
Some of the highlights
Ron Paul is riding high in the polls in Iowa ahead of Tuesday’s caucuses. But what is it about this right-wing libertarian that inspires such devotion among his followers – and such fear among many mainstream Republicans?
This leaves a bit of a sweet and sour taste. “Right wing libertarian”. A common misunderstanding by even the world’s most intelligent journalists. The thought is that Ron Paul is not a “real” republican but I think Ron Paul addressed this question quite well in 2008 and has shown that it is the republican party in the USA who have lost site of what it is to be a true republican and not Ron Paul
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The article goes on
Yet he is seen by many mainstream Republicans as, at best, a deeply misguided figure, “a good protest vote” as rival candidate Newt Gingrich described him recently.
At worst, the 76-year-old Texas congressman is viewed as a dangerous radical who would isolate America in the world and wreck the fragile economic recovery at home.
Again I refer you back to the video above, the BBC and the mainstream media in general either don’t know, have forgotten or would prefer people didn’t know about true republican values, to say “mainstream republicans” could think of Ron Paul as a “deeply misguided figure” shows how little modern journalists know about the politics they claim to be experts on.
About isolationism and wrecking a fragile economy, of course there are many people who are socialists and any thought of individual liberty makes anyone a radical.
But the BBC finished their article off with a nice flurry
Mr Styles says he has friends in the Occupy movement who share his anger at what they see as the domination of the democratic process by powerful vested interests.
“I respect that people are waking up from their apathy,” he says of the Occupiers.
This sign got its creator, Nick Styles, thrown out of a Ron Paul campaign eventBut he has thrown his lot in with Mr Paul, rather than join the Occupiers, because of the strength of the congressman’s arguments on the economy and, in particular, his promise to get rid of the Federal Reserve and return the US to the gold standard.
“We have to look into his philosophy a little bit more rather than just taking what he says and thinking it’s crazy because it’s so far out of the mainstream,” he says.
Mr Styles did not get to see his hero in action on this occasion.
He was politely ejected from the hotel by a pair of burly security guards, who took exception to his home-made banner, which reads: “A Ron Paul win will discredit the mainstream media”.
The 32-year-old chef does not seem too upset, however.
“I’m going to get it in there for the victory speech. I don’t think they can kick me out of that.”
I like the sign, I’m going to use it as a blog post title – Go Nick Styles and Go Ron Paul!
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