TIME FOR ANOTHER TEA PARTY? FTSQ!


USA, CA – On November 27^th, Gentleman’s Quarterly, a magazine more stately than Playboy, will hit the newsstands with it’s ‘Man Of The Year’ issue and this year, the political ‘Man Of The Year’ is none other than Dr. Ron Paul, the ‘dark horse of the year’. Largely under the radar, Republican candidate for 2008. Dr. Paul, a leader and winner in many straw polls, and the sleeper ‘hit’ at the recent Iowa GOP gathering, at least among the young and active-minded rather than the status quo Republicans, has appeared as a blip on the mainstream media radar when he collected a record 4.2 M in a single twenty-four hour period, prompting CNN’s Glenn Beck to sling the first mud by calling Ron Paul supporters ‘terrorists’ because the ‘money bomb’ day was the fifth of November, a British day noted for a man named Guy Fawk (see the movie ‘V For Vendetta’). And now comes another historical day for the next ‘money bomb’. On December 16^th, Dr. Paul’s campaign is calling for money to mark the Boston Tea Party anniversary, although emails to the loose band of ‘meet-uppers’ scattered across the country have been urged to give money now too, to help gear up for the New Hampshire primary coming soon.

Certainly the mood of the country is ripe for change, and a big one, after being lied to, bullied over, and completely sold out by the best politicians and biggest hypocrites money can buy. The system now is so bankrupt in substance that a woman and a black man have entered the usual tried and true formula of two older and oldest rich white guys who are both lawyers. Ron Paul is picking up the ears of everyone who is aware that this government is out of control. A recent IRS report “finds the wealthiest 1% of ‘Americans’ made 21.2 % of all income (2005), up from 19% in 2004, the highest percentage since WWII and … the 90’s bull market.” Meanwhile the bottom 50% of us, and many of my readers, made 12.8%, down from 13.4%. With a billion dollars a week leaving the country, everyone can feel the blood-money letting. Ron Paul’s answer to the money problems are such: bring all foreign troops home, now, starting with Iraq; stop enabling Israel to the tune of 6 billion dollars a year; return the country to the ‘gold’ standard; fire the federal reserve board, get rid of it’s bank, and issue our own currency again; and abolish the ‘income tax’, a tax started originally to fund a war and never repealed. Generating funds will be the industrialization of hemp, including the legalization and taxation of pot, along with the usual other money avenues for the now downsized bureaucracy.

Unlike most of the field running whose last sound bite is as true as the last poll directed, Ron Paul’s record speaks for itself, for over thirty years, and never wavered, never waffled, and now it seems, never weakened either. The question isn’t whether Ron Paul can close the class gap, it is whether he will be noticed by the main stream, voted in, and then allowed to by the wienies who caved in to Bush and Cheney, and do the job. FTSQ!