The Good Life - Why It’s Pretty Easy To Be Ron Paul And Why It’s Even Easier To Like Him - Even If You’re Rosa Parks!

November 12th, 2007 | by Ginnie | (Visited 8,828 times)

This weekend I was listening to CNN in the background and they were speaking on the issue of healthcare and how far out of the loop the senators and other political figures were. Government healthcare benefits for those employees and vacation benefits are mind blowing. Most of us will likely NEVER get those sort of high paying, easy living jobs.

But then again, I wouldn’t want to be there. Having to constantly go back and forth between where the money comes from and my own conscience and beliefs and having to compromise. It must be very stressful and taxing on the soul.

But then I read a comment about Ron Paul on another site that just struck me with wide eyes. He’s 100% right. When you absolutely refuse to compromise and vote solely on your beliefs, being a politician is probably the easiest and most rewarding job out there.

Consider this:

After watching this particular video, it just occurred to me how mind-blowingly simple and easy it must be, ethically speaking, to be Dr. Paul.

Every move he makes legislatively is based on his constitutional perspective; it’s either yes or no when it comes to the vote. He doesn’t have to waffle and waver or avoid issues in his inner legislative calculus.

He doesn’t have to pander to particular voting blocs or economic powers like the other candidates do. It must feel so refreshing not to have to wonder, day to day, how you will be perceived by these groups, vis-vis your own past comments on an issue.

It’s straight-forward, direct, consistent, and most of all, congruent.

I wonder if the other candidates look at him and get jealous, not at his position in the political horserace, but at the simplicity of his message?

I couldn’t say it better myself. Dr. Ron Paul is the one candidate that’s made me so interested in this upcoming election. I’m not a political guy and while I know a little, am just not versed enough to argue political platforms. But this guy is the candidate that speaks to me. He’s the one that doesn’t have a history of saying one thing but doing another. He’s the one guy that doesn’t smell like a salesman with “commission breath”. He’s the one guy that isn’t afraid to go against a whole party that he feels has fallen off the tracks it set so many decades ago.

Ron Paul’s Stance On NOT Giving Rosa Parks A Medal

As you’ll hear from the man himself near the end of the below video, Ron Paul was the ONLY member who voted AGAINST giving Rosa Parks a medal. At first you think perhaps he’s a racist or that he doesn’t think civil or women’s rights are important. But then Wolf asks this:

What would be unconstitutional about giving a gold medal to Rosa Parks?

And Ron Paul answers with this:

Well that wasn’t easy for me because I believe she’s a real hero because I believe in civil disobedience and I believe peaceful changes come about that way.

But I was dealing with the money. Why should I tax YOU to give her a medal?

I went to my fellow members of Congress and I said I’ll be glad to give her a medal. Let’s each put in $100 and I’ll put in $100 and WE COULD PAY FOR IT.

But to do good by taking money from the people, that is not a precise authorization in the Constitution.

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We ought to do it with our OWN money, not with YOUR money.

How do you argue with logic like that? How much money would be wasted on the paperwork a bill like that would require? Why didn’t each congressman and congresswoman just take out the $100 we all know they had on them, and put it down to buy a medal for the woman?

Because then they’d actually have to do something for once.

The more and more I hear about this guy.. the more and more I wonder why it took so long for someone like him to come to us.

I won’t go on preaching but will instead just close with this video. If you get a few moments, go to YouTube and do a search for Ron Paul and check out some of the videos about him. With an open mind for change, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised to see that while the machine of America is functionally broken… There are a few gears who still turn tried and true like they have since they were put in.

And if you’re curious where this post originated from, it was inspired after listening to this CNN interview with Ron Paul by Wolf Blitzer:

Good luck Dr. Paul!

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