Why I Recently Become a Registered Republican?

Why I Recently Become a Registered Republican? Whaaa?

Yup. I’m not going to lie; I changed parties two months ago. I’m now officially a registered Republican. Why? So I can vote for Ron Paul in the primaries in February. Why? Because Ron Paul is a congressional representative who accepts no money from corporate or special interests, introduces more pieces of legislation than any other candidate, and has never voted to raise taxes. Ron Paul is the peace candidate in this Presidential election cycle.

Am I a libertarian? Not completely. I guess I’m neutral on the economics of it. But it doesn’t sound all bad. I do strongly support freedom, peace, and the constitution of the United States. So does Ron Paul, who is fiercely against the federal government criminalizing medicinal marijuana, issuing mandatory national ID cards, and spying on your e-mails and phone calls without a warrant.

Ron Paul’s stance on Iraq and all wars is like that of George Washington’s Farewell Address. The founder of this country warned us to stay out of the affairs of other nations, and voluntarily limited his candidacy to two terms. Ron Paul wants us to use our national defense to defend our country, not to militarize the world. Don’t you think that if we were to mind our own business, there would be less anti-American sentiment overseas? Don’t you think there would be fewer terrorists? The CIA, and the Middle Eastern terrorists all admit that terrorists hate us, not because we are free and prosperous, but because we are bombing, occupying, and killing them!

Ron Paul is also for reducing the power of the executive branch. Anyone ever learn about checks and balances? Right now, we don’t have that. Over time, since Lincoln and accelerated with Bush, the executive branch does not have to listen to Congress. The president should primarily have the power to persuade the congress, who more represents the people, not to carry out his/her own draconian laws. Despite one’s personal views on any issue, it should not matter the president’s position, as the power should be dictated to congress and the states.

One particular issue that I am passionate about is health freedom; Ron Paul introduced legislation to allow vitamins, supplements, and foods to have truthful health claims on the product, if they are indeed true. He also is fighting to stop the Big Pharma cartel from completely banning a wide range of vitamins and supplements from being sold in this country. “Codex Alimentarius” as it is called, a UN-based global food regulatory agency, is set to ban organic food from being sold worldwide. Ron Paul is standing up for the integrity of the very thing that makes us human – the right to be able to eat unadulterated, non-irradiated, unsprayed food, the freedom to choose what pills we want to put in our body, and the right to know if they have health benefits or not.

Ron Paul is and always has been vocally against a North American Union, against misnamed “free trade” agreements like NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, the IMF, and the World Bank. Obama, Hillary, and everyone else, in my opinion, are for the establishment, for the big banks, for the corporate overtake and destruction of America. In fact, practically all the other candidates are members of the Council on Foreign Relations. The CFR was set up by the Rockefeller family in the early 20th century with the goal of destroying America and create a one world government. This is what George Bush talked about when he declared we are beginning to see the start of a “New World Order”.

The mainstream media and the GOP do not like the independent bipartisan grassroots candidate and momentum that is building for Ron Paul’s ideas and his candidacy. They are trying to silence him. In the debates, they barely ask him questions. When they do, they laugh while they are asking him why he wants to get out of Iraq or end the IRS. They show two people clapping for him when there are thousands clapping. They say he is supporting terrorists by realizing, like the CIA does, that our foreign policy has “blowback”: when we kill them, they hate us and try to kill us back. We should stop killing them in the first place!

Despite the GOP and mainstream media’s attempts to discredit Ron Paul and his stance on issues within his own party that go against the big money interests in the Republican party, Ron Paul is winning. He came in first or second place in 13 of the first 23 straw polls. He won the CNN.com debate poll with 60%, won an ABCNews.com debate poll with 84%, won a C-SPAN online GOP candidate poll with 69%, won the MSNBC poll after the first debates, and is now a “most searched” term on Google, Youtube, and Yahoo! Ron Paul is the most mentioned person in blogs. A couple weeks ago he won the Fox News televised debate by a landslide – with 35% of the votes on the text message poll. Giuliani came in second with less than half of that.

This time around support a grassroots candidate who is for the people, for the constitution, for freedom, justice, peace, and liberty. We have five important months left to support Ron Paul’s campaign until the primary elections. This is the opportunity of the lifetime that we have someone who has such a good chance of winning, all financed with money from citizens, not corporations. If this looks like someone you would support, Google “Ron Paul,” watch his speeches on Youtube or go to his website, www.ronpaul2008.com. Donate to his campaign, join the Meetup group (ronpaul.meetup.com), e-mail me to campaign locally or learn more: veganmatty@care2.com, and spread the word to your friends, family, classmates, etc.

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