Posted On: Wednesday - August 20th 2025 6:42PM MST
In Topics: Immigration Stupidity TV, aka Gov't Media History Liberty/Libertarianism US Feral Government
Ron Paul at less than half his age in the year of America's 200th birthday - the Bicentennial, with family and the Gipper:
In the US Congress House of Representatives, they called him Dr. No, a name taken from the villain of the very first James Bond, 007 movie (1962). That attempt at a slur was due to firstly that Ron Paul is a physician, but it was about Ron Paul's very strange habit of voting NAY! on all bills that were unConstitutional. I mean, WHO DOES THAT?! Yeah, we could have used a few hundred more men like Ron Paul over the last half century, probably a full one plus a dozen*.
Going back a ways, Ron Paul was born and grew up in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. He got his M.D. from Duke back in 1961, then did his internship at Henry Ford in Detroit and then his residency in Ob/Gyn at Magee-Womens Hospital back in Pittsburg, and has said he's delivered over 4,000 babies. (Believe you me, delivering a baby is easier than delivering a Constitutional Congressional Bill. I'm not a woman though, so ... can't be sure.)
After a couple of years in the Air Force as a Flight Surgeon during the early Vietnam era ('63-'65), Dr. Paul and family moved to Brazoria County Texas. (It's on the Gulf coast, the next county SW of Galveston County.) During his medical residency time, somehow he found time to read the classic Libertarian texts. (I'm basically following Wiki here...) it was Nixon's closing of the Gold Window in '71, ending backing of the US $ by gold that got him into politics. Some do it for the power trip, others do it for the poontang, but nobody else, I don't believe, has gone into politics due to his anger at the end of sound monetary policy!
Anyway, Ron Paul first got into the US Congress in '76 just 3 months before our country's 200th birthday. (It was a runoff election to fill a vacant seat.) He was a Republican until I guess he couldn't stand that anymore in '87, tried to do it as a Libertarian, and then went back to try to work with the R-squad (no "red v blue" yet) of the UniParty from '97 through 2013.
Between his various stints in the Federal Shithole, Dr. Paul did his Ob/Gyn work, published political and financial newsletters, and ran a numismatic coin dealership.
I used to vote Libertarian from the time George H.W. Bush didn't care we'd read his lips about taxes and then spoke in Spanish for a few seconds at a campaign event. (That was enough for me!). I gotta say, in '92 and '96 I should have voted for this guy, a smarter and more capable proto-Trump By 2012 though, the national Libertarian Party had become a stupid joke, at least at the national level. Ron Paul figured he'd go for the GOP nomination to get somewhere. He was marginalized by the Regime Media because he was not going to play UniParty games. They may have heard a little bit about Dr. No. Lots of young people really took to him during that campaign.
Stop me if you've heard this before... nah, you can't really... so, there I was, at a Ron Paul rally in the late Winter of '12. I got myself up to the front to watch his talk. Then, as he was leaving, Dr. Paul shook some hands. As he shook mine, I told him nicely "Hey, if you want to win [REDACTED STATE], you've gotta talk about illegal immigration." (I'd been a VDare reader for 7-8 years already by this time.) "OK, I'm all for enforcing the law..." he started, and I don't remember the rest. He is an honest guy. If illegal immigration was not going to be his main issue, he'd tell you that. It wasn't. Four years later, it was for the Presidential election, but Dr. Paul was behind the scenes already, still writing and (at some point) producing his video Liberty Reports.
Now, did Dr. Paul understand what Peak Stupidity has said many times to admonish the (ridiculous!) Open Borders Libertarians?**: These particular masses of newcomers you're OK with - uhhh, you know that 99% of them will never vote Libertarian, much less subscribe to Reason magazine, don't you?*** I don't know if he understood that then. He has written columns withing the last few years that assure me he does now.
We still have this soft-spoken real American Constitutionalist with us, one year before the 250th birthday of this country, still teaching Americans who don't know any better about so many things in his columns, and almost always with an optimistic paragraph at the end. I'm sorry to say that I don't share his optimism.
I occasionally don't agree with Ron Paul, say, about tariffs and eVerify, but that's 1% of the time. Wait, did I write that he's a soft-spoken guy. Let me go back to the year 1988. This Morton Downey Jr. was just another Jerry Springer/Herr-aldo type, but Ron Paul was not up for taking any shit here:
I recall things being pretty civil politically back in the 1980s, but then, this was daytime TV! Check out 2 1/2 minutes in through at least 3-4 minutes. Also, if nothing else, hop over to 12:25 - 12:45. Great TV! ... or something... No soft-spoken teacher was Ron Paul 37 years ago. (He was already 53.)
I am so glad we still have Ron Paul to kick people around in America, even if it's in a nice friendly manner. Alas, now well into the PRP, we are a different enough country such that not much of his elucidation of basic principles of limited government reaches anyone who cares. I've got one more thing to say, based on that episode in '12. People oughta listen to me, if they know what's good for 'em!
PS: Note, early on in that video, Ron Paul talking about imagine taxing cigarettes to where they're "5 dollars a pack!" Ha, you've got to go to the Res for that now. Ron Paul understands the reason for Inflation more than anyone, so I doubt he's actually surprised now by cigarette prices.
PPS: Oh, yeah, the title of this post reads kinda funny, but that's because I've got the lyrics of the KIZZ song Doctor Love in my head now. ("They call me Doctor Love (call me Docter Love...)") I try not to be too mean to the readers, so we will not embed this one. That band played lots of better ones.
* That'd bring us back to 1913. Lots of very BAD things happened in the US Gov't from that year through a handful more. Then, there was FDR... don't get me started...
** Not nearly all Libertarians and Constitutionalists - the latter less so - are Open Borders idiots. Those Reason magazine imbeciles, yeah, I wrote them a nasty letter telling them to use the rest of my subscription money to buy a clue, oh, about 17-18 years ago.
*** See the first half of our old post What's the deal with Peak Stupidity - Libertarian or Conservative?.
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Moderator
Thursday - August 21st 2025 5:29AM MST
PS: Hello, Mr. Smith. Our cat will occasionally attack our legs for no particular reason. Maybe he actually has a reason (I think it's when he has had bad luck hunting lately and just plain wants to bite.), or else he's completely mental. Aren't they all, though?
Ha, I guess that's not the kind of video in which a cat SWAT team comes rappelling off the roof to rescue the poor katnapped panda. That might be cool though...
Ha, I guess that's not the kind of video in which a cat SWAT team comes rappelling off the roof to rescue the poor katnapped panda. That might be cool though...
Hail
Thursday - August 21st 2025 4:12AM MST
PS
Another thing to understand about Ron Paul is:
He is a spokesman for an important element of the NW-European tradition ---- which is at the very core of the traditional US.
There are certain unstated civilizational norms and attitudes, call them political-folkways, that shape all (North) American "institutions" and baseline way(s) of life and attitudes towards the life well-lived. We don't always live up to them, and it can be difficult to see them in pure form. (It is easiest to see them when comparing Western ways with non-Western ways.*)
Ron Paul's form of politics, and approach-to-life, and his appeal and his unlikely-popularity, are entirely signs of his origins in the NW-European tradition.
In 2012 I looked into his ancestry back a number of generations. I found, to my surprise, he is entirely of German-Protestant origin. I had two posts on him back in the height of the 2012 R-primary campaign:
"Ron Paul Remembers":
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/ron-paul-remembers/
and
"Ron Paul’s ancestry: German(-Lutheran) by blood, German and American in thought, word, and deed":
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/the-ancestry-of-ron-paul-the-german-candidate/
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* NOTE: East Asians, high-caste South Asians, Jews, and others have NEVER demonstrated ability to achieve these things on their own and sustain them at scale.
They may be high-IQ, but they are weighed down with much negative baggage, including low-trust in general, and generally quite-flexible outgroup ethics. These types have always wanted ties to the US or similar societies, if they could get them, and have parked themselves in positions to coast along our institutions.
There are tens of millions of examples in the West of this sort of person, including a decent number active in the libertarian movement. Those who are libertarians or similar tend to be a lot less principled than Dr Paul, needless to say.
Non-Westerners, even talented ones, have historically never been able to either form or sustain, in any kind of longer-term or at any kind of decent scale, societies marked by truly broad high-trust, stability, peace, prosperity, and, well, civilizational advancement dedicated to the pursuit of truth ("truth over face"), as we have.
The best criticism of (most) libertarians, as we can observe them over the past several decades, is an apparent lack of understanding, concern, or courage on these questions. For Ron Paul, I think it's because he is of a generation in whose formative years there was zero nonwhite 'immigration' problem whatsoever. One tends to stick by values developed in younger years. This was the point of my "Ron Paul Remembers" post from March 2012 (linked to above). Younger libertarians, who claim to be completely unconcerned with immigration or even in favor of open immigration in principle, have no such excuse.
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Another thing to understand about Ron Paul is:
He is a spokesman for an important element of the NW-European tradition ---- which is at the very core of the traditional US.
There are certain unstated civilizational norms and attitudes, call them political-folkways, that shape all (North) American "institutions" and baseline way(s) of life and attitudes towards the life well-lived. We don't always live up to them, and it can be difficult to see them in pure form. (It is easiest to see them when comparing Western ways with non-Western ways.*)
Ron Paul's form of politics, and approach-to-life, and his appeal and his unlikely-popularity, are entirely signs of his origins in the NW-European tradition.
In 2012 I looked into his ancestry back a number of generations. I found, to my surprise, he is entirely of German-Protestant origin. I had two posts on him back in the height of the 2012 R-primary campaign:
"Ron Paul Remembers":
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/03/08/ron-paul-remembers/
and
"Ron Paul’s ancestry: German(-Lutheran) by blood, German and American in thought, word, and deed":
https://hailtoyou.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/the-ancestry-of-ron-paul-the-german-candidate/
.
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* NOTE: East Asians, high-caste South Asians, Jews, and others have NEVER demonstrated ability to achieve these things on their own and sustain them at scale.
They may be high-IQ, but they are weighed down with much negative baggage, including low-trust in general, and generally quite-flexible outgroup ethics. These types have always wanted ties to the US or similar societies, if they could get them, and have parked themselves in positions to coast along our institutions.
There are tens of millions of examples in the West of this sort of person, including a decent number active in the libertarian movement. Those who are libertarians or similar tend to be a lot less principled than Dr Paul, needless to say.
Non-Westerners, even talented ones, have historically never been able to either form or sustain, in any kind of longer-term or at any kind of decent scale, societies marked by truly broad high-trust, stability, peace, prosperity, and, well, civilizational advancement dedicated to the pursuit of truth ("truth over face"), as we have.
The best criticism of (most) libertarians, as we can observe them over the past several decades, is an apparent lack of understanding, concern, or courage on these questions. For Ron Paul, I think it's because he is of a generation in whose formative years there was zero nonwhite 'immigration' problem whatsoever. One tends to stick by values developed in younger years. This was the point of my "Ron Paul Remembers" post from March 2012 (linked to above). Younger libertarians, who claim to be completely unconcerned with immigration or even in favor of open immigration in principle, have no such excuse.
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Hail
Thursday - August 21st 2025 3:55AM MST
PS
I wrote of some thoughts on Ron Paul two weeks ago, under No.3322, "Jerry Garcia Gratefully Dead 30 Years":
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(quote, from my early-August 2025 comment)
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Ron Paul's 90th birthday coming.
It was, in very many ways, a better America back on August 20, 1935. The Great Depression notwithstanding.
I count myself as among those whose first quasi-formative, quasi-mainstream political experiences came with the Ron Paul 2007-08 campaign. Not that I was closely involved, but I did become an enthusiastic supporter in active ways and even "recruited" a friend or two.
I've heard so many people give retrospectives on the Ron Paul 2007-08 campaign as a magical moment. It came before the 2008 crash and before the following five years of economic sluggishness, and it took courage and boldness to be for Ron Paul at the time.
Some years later an orange-haired reality-tv guy came on the scene in June 2015. The movement that he stumbled into being the figurehead of, relied on Ron Paul 2007-08 (and to an extent the then-more-recent 2011-12 sequel, which Trump too had wanted to run in). The Tea Party movement of the early 2010s was also very directly a product of Ron Paul 2008, and Trump 2015 picked up its flagging energies.
(...) Here's one remarkable thing: the man reached his highest heights in life in his mid-seventies, when he became a national figure (late 2000s, into the 2010s).
Speaking of the Grateful Dead. People have called Ron Paul a rockstar, the world's leas-likely one in some ways, given his meek personality and uncharismatic persona. (His charisma is solely his truth-telling and principles.) We're somewhat used to aging music figures going on into old age, but they're simply re-living their 20s-30s for a few extra decades, or the energies of fame carrying on twenty-five, even fifty years after the initial success. Ron Paul having his big breakthrough in his mid-seventies is quite a contrast.
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(end quote from myself, two weeks ago)
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I wrote of some thoughts on Ron Paul two weeks ago, under No.3322, "Jerry Garcia Gratefully Dead 30 Years":
____________
(quote, from my early-August 2025 comment)
.
Ron Paul's 90th birthday coming.
It was, in very many ways, a better America back on August 20, 1935. The Great Depression notwithstanding.
I count myself as among those whose first quasi-formative, quasi-mainstream political experiences came with the Ron Paul 2007-08 campaign. Not that I was closely involved, but I did become an enthusiastic supporter in active ways and even "recruited" a friend or two.
I've heard so many people give retrospectives on the Ron Paul 2007-08 campaign as a magical moment. It came before the 2008 crash and before the following five years of economic sluggishness, and it took courage and boldness to be for Ron Paul at the time.
Some years later an orange-haired reality-tv guy came on the scene in June 2015. The movement that he stumbled into being the figurehead of, relied on Ron Paul 2007-08 (and to an extent the then-more-recent 2011-12 sequel, which Trump too had wanted to run in). The Tea Party movement of the early 2010s was also very directly a product of Ron Paul 2008, and Trump 2015 picked up its flagging energies.
(...) Here's one remarkable thing: the man reached his highest heights in life in his mid-seventies, when he became a national figure (late 2000s, into the 2010s).
Speaking of the Grateful Dead. People have called Ron Paul a rockstar, the world's leas-likely one in some ways, given his meek personality and uncharismatic persona. (His charisma is solely his truth-telling and principles.) We're somewhat used to aging music figures going on into old age, but they're simply re-living their 20s-30s for a few extra decades, or the energies of fame carrying on twenty-five, even fifty years after the initial success. Ron Paul having his big breakthrough in his mid-seventies is quite a contrast.
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(end quote from myself, two weeks ago)
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Adam Smith
Wednesday - August 20th 2025 9:49PM MST
PS: Happy Birthday Ron Paul!
(and) Good evening, Mr. Moderator!
I don't have much to say because I have to get to bed soon because we are taking Miss Kitty to the vet in the morning for her ovariohysterectomy. We have to drop her off by 8am which is pretty early for us. (We set an alarm!)(Highly unusual.) Fortunately, we're not going far ('bout 15 minutes)(by the HomeDepot) and then we'll come back home. We have to pick her up about 6 hours later.
Baby Girl and Miss Kitty are doing pretty well. I wouldn't say they're friends yet but they're getting closer.(?) There has been much less hissing and more friendliness. (I've even seen Baby Girl give the kitten a quick nose to nose and a little quick kiss on the cheek here and there.)
The kitten wants so very badly to be Baby Girl's friend and she follows her around like a shadow. Unfortunately, Miss Kitty still wants someone to wrestle with and chase and bite on. (because kitten) Baby Girl is having none of that. (I'm done with it too. Can't be training a cat to be biting on peoples hands.) But we are teaching the kitten some manners and she is eager to learn. And they're both sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaA0iF7E_Yw
I gave the kitten a bath this afternoon and we treated her for fleas because we don't want her to pick anything up at the vet and bring it home. I hope it all goes well.
Anyway... I really need to get to bed. So I'll see you all tomorrow or such.
Happy Thursday! ☮️
(and) Good evening, Mr. Moderator!
I don't have much to say because I have to get to bed soon because we are taking Miss Kitty to the vet in the morning for her ovariohysterectomy. We have to drop her off by 8am which is pretty early for us. (We set an alarm!)(Highly unusual.) Fortunately, we're not going far ('bout 15 minutes)(by the HomeDepot) and then we'll come back home. We have to pick her up about 6 hours later.
Baby Girl and Miss Kitty are doing pretty well. I wouldn't say they're friends yet but they're getting closer.(?) There has been much less hissing and more friendliness. (I've even seen Baby Girl give the kitten a quick nose to nose and a little quick kiss on the cheek here and there.)
The kitten wants so very badly to be Baby Girl's friend and she follows her around like a shadow. Unfortunately, Miss Kitty still wants someone to wrestle with and chase and bite on. (because kitten) Baby Girl is having none of that. (I'm done with it too. Can't be training a cat to be biting on peoples hands.) But we are teaching the kitten some manners and she is eager to learn. And they're both sweet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaA0iF7E_Yw
I gave the kitten a bath this afternoon and we treated her for fleas because we don't want her to pick anything up at the vet and bring it home. I hope it all goes well.
Anyway... I really need to get to bed. So I'll see you all tomorrow or such.
Happy Thursday! ☮️
Why was he more of a "rock star" 13 years ago than he was in the Congress for many years, back when Constitutional principles were understood by more people, both in and out of political office? He was just something different for the young people. I think, more than anything, it was about his principled stance on US warmongering. The young people lean MORE Socialist now, so I don't know if that many really understood or supported his stance on limited government. He was someone different and not of the UniParty. Trump is too, you gotta admit - he's just nowhere near the honest, capable man that Ron Paul is.
I agree with your last part regarding Ron Paul's age and excuse for not seeing what's happening for a long time vs. the young people who are living it. The brainwashing in the Institutions is much stronger now though.
I'll check out your RP posts on your blog.