Ron Paul For President In 2012

This book consists of a series of essays about Dr. Paul and his campaigns for the presidency of the U.S. in 2008 and 2012, with primary emphasis on the latter. The gist of them all is to make the case for his occupancy of the White House. Each and every last one of these chapters is an attempt to expand and expound upon his views, to publicize them, to promote his candidacy, to defend it against attacks from within and without the libertarian movement.

Will Ron Paul win? At the time of this writing, it is far too early to know whether or not he will become the next president of the United States. From the perspective of this point in time, Dr. Paul faces an uphill, and then a downhill battle. He will have a more difficult time winning the Republican nomination than he will in beating Obama. This is because Paul attracts people from all over the political spectrum. Republicans, yes; but he is very attractive to Independents, and even, more surprisingly at the outset, to Democrats. And, while some of the primaries are open to voters from all three categories, these elections are of course statistically biased in the direction of Republicans, and Ron Paul has no comparative advantage vis a vis his three remaining competitors, Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum, in this section of the electorate. That is his weakness, but also his strength; for if and when he gets the nod from the Republicans, he can attract more voters from the Democratic and Independent camps than these other three, and thus has the best chance of overturning the sitting president in the fall of 2012. In recent polls, only Paul and Romney are in a statistical dead heat with Obama. Gingrich and Santorum fall by the wayside in this regard.

But Dr. Paul is not only running for the presidency of the U.S. His campaign is also an attempt to change the hearts and minds of the more than 300 million people in America, but also the nearly 7 billion inhabitants of the entire Earth. And in this latter quest he has already succeeded, beyond even the most ambitious of hopes of his most fervent supporters.