I wonder how many Americans realize that Congressman Ron Paul (TX-R) has taken the first step recently toward launching a second presidential bid in 2008, this time as a Republican. Paul limits his view of the role of the federal government to those duties laid out in the U.S. Constitution. A Paul presidency would seriously attempt the re-establishment of the rule of constitutional law to American government. Ron Paul is a true constitutionalist in every sense of the word. I have lent financial support as I could afford to his congressional election campaigns (I do not live in Texas), and watched him as best I could for most of the years he has been in Congress, and have concluded the following about him:

He would oppose the establishment of the North American Union, which has already been agreed upon by President Bush, President Fox and then Prime Minister Martin.

He would work to extricate the U.S. from the various trade agreements (e.g., CAFTA, NAFTA) which will continue to permanently lower the amount of available jobs and wage structure for future generations of Americans.

He has frequently objected to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and considers America’s entry into those wars unconstitutional as well as immoral and would demand that Congress accept its responsibility for declaring the wars or remove American forces from those countries.

He has always opposed U.S. membership in the U.N., and would strive to get the U.S. out of the U.N. and get the U.N. out of the U.S.

He would push for a flat tax on income and elimination of certain other taxes such as the inheritance tax.

He would strive to reign in the abuses of the IRS and abandon the fiat currency which has plunged the true worth of the dollar to new international lows.

He would try to stop American tax dollars from being used to support illegal migrant health care, education, social security and unemployment insurance.

He would resist the adoption of the Amero as our new currency because we would have to equalize our dollar with the Mexican Peso and the Canadian Dollar

He would do his best to eliminate the Federal Reserve System and such practices as fractional reserve banking which is responsible for the theft of untold amounts of money from the American people..

He would resist the private takeover of the internet.

He would oppose the elimination of the alternative health care industry under CODEX.

He favours returning to paper ballots in order to ensure the integrity of our elections.

He would endeavour to halt further increases in social welfare and oppose renewal of such programs as they expire.

He would at least drastically reduce foreign aid, especially to countries unfriendly to the U.S.

He would enforce laws prohibiting transfer of militarily sensitive technology to avowed enemies like Russia and China, and their allies.

I think I’ve covered about all the bases of what I think his platform will include. Having said that, I think the Republican Party will make every effort to sabotage Ron Paul's campaign. There is no love lost between Paul and other Republicans in Congress. In the last primaires the Republican Party ran a candidate against him with ties to the Sanatra family and some LDG connections that I forget now. But big $s were thrown by the party into his opponent's campaign. Ron Paul is the only congressman since Larry McDonald to totally support the principles written in the Declaration of Independence and codified in the US Constitution. I would like to think that he will be supported by the Constitution Party, the Libertarian Party and the Independent American Party. This should be an interesting campaign.

In a best case scenario, Paul would be marginalized by his own party because he is a threat to their personal status quo. If he pushed to roll back the unconstitutional legislation of George Bush (e.g., Military Commission Act), he would be accused of being soft on terrorism. If Paul were to unilaterally withdraw us from CAFTA and NAFTA with the hope of restoring our children's economic future, he would be accused of being a socialist, a protectionist, and war mongering politician because of his anti-trade policies. He would also be ostracized by the mainstream media and the six corporations which own 99% of the media. Most Americans, too busy to do any meaningful research, would be bamboozled by an unrelenting wave of yellow journalism designed to discredit his true positions. Fellow Republicans, desiring to protect their corporate fundraising turf, would join in the witch hunt that would follow a Paul candidacy because his candidacy would threaten their political coffers and future employment at the expense of the American people.

JFK was the last President to actively oppose the continued operation of the Federal Reserve. His murder has been attributed at least in part to that. Paul would receive serious opposition to his anti-war stance, his anti-Federal Reserve position, and his opposition to undeclared wars is a threat to all the interests who view Iraq and all other future military "police actions" as the great American cash cow. And in a worst case scenario, Paul would have to face these same forces with much personal and professional derision from within his own party.

Both the Republicans and the Democrats have sold their political soul to the corporate devil. Any threat to the existing system will have as much of a chance of succeeding than a group of "loyal oppositionist" Chinese who would oppose their present military dictatorship. One simply cannot run for President within a dictatorial regime in the same manner that one cannot be an ardent Constitutionalist and receive the support of political parties which have evolved into a government by and for the transnational corporations.