Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul appeared on NBC’s Meet the Press last Sunday to discuss the current campaign and policy issues.
During the interview, Paul criticized GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney. When it comes to the most important issues, Paul doesn’t see a difference between Romney and President Barack Obama, said Wolf Blitzer in a blog post for CNN.
Paul thinks that Romney and Obama hold the same stance on entitlement spending, auditing the Federal Reserve and cutting the nation’s debt.
“There would not be a significant difference between the two – although on the edges, maybe,” Paul said. “So, no, the regulatory system, the spending, the deficits, the printing of money, they stay the same.”
One of Paul’s policies is a return to the gold standard and according to an article for Ology by Noah Rothman, Paul’s economic reforms include $1 trillion in budget cuts.
Rep. Paul on Meet the Press
One of the main areas Paul would make spending cuts to is the military.
During Sunday’s interview, Paul was critical of the U.S foreign policy. He said he was doubtful the president would really end the engagement in Iraq, despite Obama’s Friday announcement that troops would leave by year’s end, said Elizabeth Williamson in a blog for the Wall Street Journal.
“Throughout the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination, the Texas congressman has called for a deficit-saddled nation to withdraw not only from Iraq, but from Afghanistan and other parts of the world,” Williamson said. Paul’s “views on foreign intervention, more than any other factor, explains his uneasy fit within the Republican Party.”
Despite his diverging views with the Republican party, Paul has support in national polls of no lower than 4 percent, Rothman said.
Paul has also been able to raise a lot of money. He raised more than $2.75 million in his latest ‘”money bomb,” a fundraiser that only lasts a few days, which began last Wednesday and ended this Monday. These were mostly in small contributions from thousands of donors, said Catalina Camia in an article for USA Today.
Paul “raised about $8.3 million from July through September and had about $3.7 million in the bank to spend going into the last quarter of the year,” Camia said.
Nice article. I watched some videos online of Ron paul not getting any media attention even though he is a good candidate. I think the last time he received attention was when he said that it was time we realized why 9/11 actually happened.
Very good post. Good photos, video, links and many sources.
You must attribute each quote taken from another news source this way: “Blah blah,” said Paul, according to a story in the Washington Post. Or, “Blah blah,” Paul was quoted as saying in the Washington Post. This does not apply when the quote is taken from a video that is included or linked in your post because people can verify it for themselves.