Could Ron Paul Win in New Hampshire?

[Digging4Truth]

Could Ron Paul Win in New Hampshire?

FreeMarketNews.com
Thursday June 7, 2007

Could Presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) win the Republican national primary in New Hampshire? If he did so, the momentum would be significant – and the press coverage massive - as New Hampshire may be the first state to hold a formal election, even beating out the Iowa caucus.

“Ron Paul could win in New Hampshire,” says a source close to the campaign. “It would be an explosive political act – one that would devastate the common wisdom. The mainstream media hasn’t realized it yet, but folks in New Hampshire take him seriously.”

Ron Paul could use a win in New Hampshire to provide momentum in other states – especially if New Hampshire positions itself as the nation’s first primary again. The state actually has considerable flexibility in terms of setting a primary. The system allows state officials to wait right up to the last minute before they commit to a date. It’s possible that the primary could be held in the second week of January, or even earlier, in December 07. This may explain why the Ron Paul campaign is not putting a lot of emphasis on Iowa but has just hired a campaign manager in New Hampshire with considerable professional experience.

While the Ron Paul campaign isn’t commenting on any moves, New Hampsher-ites likely sat up and took notice recently when James "The Primary Source" Pindell reported that "Former New Hampshire state Representative Barbara Hagan of Manchester endorsed Texas Congressman Ron Paul's presidential campaign and will organize outreach to the state's pro-life community."

http://www.boston.com/news...

Hagan is a powerful figure in New Hampshire politics, and her backing means that Ron Paul has made substantial inroads into the conservative wing of the GOP in New Hampshire. However, even the conservative wing of the GOP in New Hampshire is more liberal than most in the classical sense. In fact, both GOP-ers and the state’s huge independent group of votes tend, opinion-wise toward small government, low taxes and free-market solutions.

That’s why Ron Paul’s message has appeal – and why he could gain momentum. In fact, the maverick conservative-populist Patrick Buchanan won the state’s Republican nomination in 1996, defeating Senator Bob Dole by about 3,000 votes. Wikipedia describes it this way:

At a rally in Nashua, he said, "We shocked them in Alaska. Stunned them in Louisiana. Stunned them in Iowa. They are in a terminal panic. They hear the shouts of the peasants from over the hill. All the knights and barons will be riding into the castle pulling up the drawbridge in a minute. All the peasants are coming with pitchforks. We're going to take this over the top." While campaigning, Buchanan energized his supporters with the slogan "The peasants are coming with pitchforks", occasionally appearing with a prop pitchfork, thus earning him the nickname "Pitchfork Pat."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pat_Buchanan

Ultimately, as the above excerpt shows, Buchanan chose to run in the American “populist” tradition. Ron Paul, a true political throwback, is doing no such thing. He is, instead, grounded in the timeless tenets of Thomas Jefferson’s agrarian republicanism. He is a constitutional scholar, an admirable polemicist and principled politician. His fundamental beliefs are actually those upon which the country was founded - and from which he believes it has grievously and dangerously strayed.

People who actually get to hear his message about small government, lower taxes and free markets often appreciate the fundamental moral conviction of his message. It is quickly clear that Dr. Paul is no normal politician. He is known, for instance, as “Dr. No” in Congress because he will not vote for any measure that he believes is unconstitutional.

As heir to Thomas Jefferson’s thought, Ron Paul is far more dangerous to the political elite than Buchanan ever was. Buchanan could not take his message from the fringe to the mainstream. He marginalized himself consciously or unconsciously.

Ron Paul is no marginal figure. Should he get beyond New Hampshire – and likely long before that - his message may command considerable resonance in the public arena. It already does on the Internet, and for good reason.

[Digging4Truth]

One of this nations great Presidents... Ronald Reagan.

A 444 day hostage crisis ended 30 minutes after he was put into office because he had promised to go a different route.

He talked to nations and walls fell.

Just as the years proceeding Reagan's presidency we are now in a tense world situation brought on by bad foreign policy.

Who would have thought on the day before Ronald Reagan's inauguration that some 24 hours later the hostages would be coming home.

Who would have thought on the day before Ronald Reagan's inauguration that less than 10 years later the Berlin Wall would have come down.

If people will just but see it we have here at our fingertips such a pivotal point in human history.

Ron Paul is the man that can turn this whole thing around and usher in a time of peace and prosperity for this nation.

The 100 year war on terror rhetoric is a self fulfilling prophecy. Walking in the proposed solution will continue to create the prophesied problem.

We need a new way. A new way that is actually an old way... a tried way.. a true way.

On that is truer to our party... truer to our nation... yeah.. even truer to our God.

[jwharv]

I see that you post alot about Ron Paul. But most of what I have read in your post seems to come from other sources. Can you tell me in your own words why you think he should be the next president?

[Digging4Truth]

I see that you post alot about Ron Paul. But most of what I have read in your post seems to come from other sources. Can you tell me in your own words why you think he should be the next president?

Well... the post just before yours for one.

I think that Ron Paul should be the next president because...

He believes, votes & acts as though the Constitution is the law of the land. A rare breed these days.

It is always the line of the Republican party to stand for smaller federal government but the end result is always the opposite. Ron Paul WILL reduce the size of federal government.

Ron Paul will reduce the role of federal government in our lives (which is the major way that he will reduce the size and cost of federal government) and he will return much authority to the state level where it belongs.

Ron Paul was one of the few people who stood against this war (well... whatever it is... they refused to declare war as they should have if they were going to go over there) from the very beginning and will bring our troops home in short order after being elected.

Ron Paul will make our borders more secure. He will secure our borders by physical means. There is much talk about how we need to this and we need to do that to halt illegal immigration... We just need to enforce what we already have in place. Enforce our laws. That will go a long way to getting the job done. But people want to pass laws that they aren't going to enforce and then make more laws on top of that because every time a new useless law is passed then that means billions more disappear while nothing new happens.

Ron Paul will protect the rights of the American people (that is a byproduct of a vow to protect and defend the constitution of the US) and he will stop this move toward corporate use of government to oppress the American people by means such as eminent domain.

Just like I would support a pastor who demonstrated that he was "getting back to the Bible" I support Ron Paul because he is getting back to the Constitution.

Ron Paul stands for our 2nd Amendment rights.

Ron Paul is the one who still says no when everyone else gives in and says yes.

Ron Paul has demonstrated over his many years in political service that he does not flip flop... he stands for what he says he'll stand for and he votes with consistency and integrity.

The federal government has become too big... too powerful... too all encompassing and too costly.

In the direction we are headed the federal government will, itself, finally break the back of it's own economy.

How many years can we afford to spend billions & billions & billions of dollars we don't have and not expect that it finally destroy our economy?


How many years can we afford to spend billions & billions & billions of dollars we don't have and continue to pile this debt on our children, our grandchildren, our great grandchildren etc?

We have stockpiled debt that our posterity will be stuck with before they ever spend a dime of their own tax money.

There is only one way to stop this. Get back to the Constitution.
Get the federal government out of areas that it does not have jurisdiction in.
Get the power back to the states and let these things be handled on the state level as was originally intended.

To quote Ron Paul... the reason I am for Ron Paul is because the politicians of this nation have "lost their way".

We need somebody that can turn us around from this path of destruction we are on and, in my eyes, Ron Paul is the only one out there that even understands that the changes even need to be made.