Ron Paul on Campaign Goals at GOP Convention: Those Paul People

A coworker of mine last week asked me about the future of the Ron Paul 2012 Campaign. I suggested that we plan to affect the GOP platform. Soon afterwards, Ron Paul presented clear guidance to his delegates.

"The real war is the war of ideas."

Even delegates pledged to Romney may freely vote for liberty when the 2012 GOP platform is created at the party convention in Tampa. A fair percentage of the pledged Romney delegates who going to the GOP Convention are Ron Paul people. Another fair percentage of delegates (no matter to whom they are pledged) agree with us on many issues.

Paul said the successes of his campaign over the past five years have just been magnificent.

The most important thing, I think, is the awakening of a whole new generation, excited about these views and who are participating. And . . . there's no way it's going to be stopped.

In the video, he alerted us to the challenge issued by Rick Santorum in the form of a Washington Post report, Rick Santorum: Ron Paul supporters seeking convention fight by Felicia Sonmez. Without identifying any issue, Santorum vaguely warned about the need for "principled conservatives" to "counter-balance the effects of those Paul-people."

Ron Paul responded to Santorum's challenge by acknowledging Santorum's point. Ron Paul said, "We want to make our point. And it is true that the Santorum people are principled. . . . but they are also authoritarians. They want to use the government to impose their will on us as individuals."

Ron Paul goes on describe how the liberty movement has been so successful in the last five years, and why. He referenced the coming economic collapse. "We are in the middle of that now. The failure of Keynesianism, failure of central banking, failure of fiat money, [and] failure of authoritarianism." Paul stated the ongoing economic disintegration is creating a vacuum. He said, "we don't want the authoritarians to fill the vacuum."

I think what we do in the next five months is that we build and we continue to accumulate delegates, and alternates, fellow travelers.

We can't let up now. We have to present the case in a very positive way.

Our delegates are welled-versed. The know the philosophy. We know what the platform oughta say. It should be a different foreign policy, protection of civil liberties, [and] curtailing of Executive Branch power to go to war and run drone warfare, assassin[ate] American citizens, and promot[e] what's in the NDAA.

So many things that are crucial. We see an opening now to really have an impact. Not just this weekend, but the future for this country.

I think we are on the verge of really having a climatic ending of this campaign. [It] will be just the beginning of the end of the big government authoritarians if we do our job right.