Hot on the heels of Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Iowa, Ron Paul is rallying the youth vote and drawing big crowds.
Speaking to a standing-room-only gathering of more than 1,000 college-age students in Ames, Iowa, Thursday night, Paul declared again that the war on drugs had been a failure, reminding the audience that more people had died in preventing people from using drugs than from the drugs themselves.
“I’m just not frightened by a free society,” said Paul. “I’m frightened by those who prevent us from having a free society. That’s where the real threats are.”
The Paul campaign has picked up steam and has its sights set on new national front-runner Newt Gingrich, by going after the anti-Washington, anti-establishment voters. Paul’s speech Thursday night again attacked the Patriot Act, telling the audience that it passed quickly and overwhelmingly even though it contained “a lot of bad stuff.”
Gingrich and Paul sparred over the Patriot Act during a recent CNN debate in which Gingrich advocated for strengthening the law, which provides law enforcement authorities enhanced tools to combat terrorism.
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A Newt Gingrich presidency truly scares the hell out of me, I would take Ron paul over Newt Gingrich any day of the week. Ron Paul is for small less intrusive government, freedom, and individual Liberty. Gingrich represents a bigger more intrusive government, Central planning of everything, and control of every aspect of our lives. This is not the America I grew up in and Ron Paul represents the America I want to return to. Ron Paul 2012. If you look at everything Gingrich voted for in his past all of the bills are planks of the Communist Manifesto and those are the ideas that Newt Gingrich endorses. Look at the Communist Manifesto written in the 1930 and look at the Bills newt Gingrich voted for and you can see the very close comparisons. Newt is a Communists Sympathizer. No doubt about it. Where is Senator McCarthy when we need him today.
Ron Paul IS psychotic!
"Paul has expressed his desire to eliminate: welfare, the income tax, farm subsidies, paper currency, public schools, the 14th amendment, the War on Drugs, Social Security, NATO, the Federal Reserve, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Internal Revenue Service, the Food and Drug Administration, the FBI, the CIA, FEMA, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the departments of education, energy, commerce, housing and urban development, health and human services, and homeland security."
http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/dont-beli…
Hmm, he said he is also going to eliminate idiots .. careful, James.
Thanks, buggie, but even if Paul would put me in that category, with his track record of effectiveness I don't think I'd have much to worry about.
“Ron Paul Rally’s the Youth Vote, Draws Big Crowds”
“gathering of more than 1,000 college-age students”
Well to the IDIOT college graduate 1,000 may be a “Big Crowd” And if only 1,000 drunkards, drug addicts vote for Ron Paul. He don’t have much of a chance to win.
Ron Paul IS psychotic!
Well then look forward to loss of all freedoms, runaway inflation, reinstatement of the draft, more spending and debt for the wars to eliminate Israel's enemies. Also, a police state and at least 4 more years of the Marxist Obama or whatever his real name is. The next illegal, unconstitutional war will be wiping out Iran for Israel. Hope your kids are ready to die for that.
The U.S. has already started a covert war in Iran .. entire complexes blow to smithereens. Obummer and his CIA will undoubtedly pin the blame on Israel. BTW, how did Iran get the codes for the stealth drone, over which they took control and safely landed? Do ya' think Obummer gave them the codes?
In that college town, 1,000 is a lot of people. It is not very big.
Perhaps–but Iowa State does have about 28,000 students, and that crowd is about two-thirds the attendance for an average women's volleyball game there: http://www.cyclones.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_I…