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Texas rep trolls for Michigan presidential support
MACKINAC ISLAND -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul may be barely showing a political pulse in state and national polling, but his message that the federal government has grown obese and unresponsive, and interferes with the daily lives of Americans, struck a chord at breakfast this morning with Michigan Republicans gathered here for at a pep-rally type conference.
Measures such as repealing the No Child Left Behind education law, getting out of the United Nations and disbanding the federal Department of Education are where the Republican Party should focus its energies, said Paul, a specialist in obstetrics/genecology who has delivered more than 4,000 babies over the years when not complaining of government over-reach.
Paul spoke this morning to hundreds of GOP activists on the second day of the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Candidates Mitt Romney, John McCain and Fred Thompson are scheduled to speak later in the day.
Despite low poll numbers and criticism from some Republicans for his opposition to the Iraq war, Paul has an enthusiastic following. When he arrived at the Grand Hotel on Friday evening, folks inside the historic Grand Hotel couldn't help but notice, given the loud and enthusiastic chants of "Ron Paul, Ron Paul."
"Government restricts people and protects the government," he told his supporters. "We don't have privacy anymore."
He told them his biggest asset is "my conviction that freedom will really work."
In an unscientific survey Friday morning, a conference participant who drove up from Lansing counted more "Ron Paul" for president signs along the 230-mile route than for any other of the GOP hopefuls, with the possible exception of Michigan native and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Paul was to have shared the Saturday morning breakfast with candidates Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback, but both decided to skip the meeting of state GOP activists, donors and organizers.
Paul had a friendly exchange at the start of his presentation with state GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis. Earlier this year, Anuzis called for Paul to be excluded from future debates because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"He ought to appoint me his national co-chair," Anuzis told the breakfast gathering in introducing Paul. "I doubled his name recognition in 48 hours.
MACKINAC ISLAND -- Texas Rep. Ron Paul may be barely showing a political pulse in state and national polling, but his message that the federal government has grown obese and unresponsive, and interferes with the daily lives of Americans, struck a chord at breakfast this morning with Michigan Republicans gathered here for at a pep-rally type conference.
Measures such as repealing the No Child Left Behind education law, getting out of the United Nations and disbanding the federal Department of Education are where the Republican Party should focus its energies, said Paul, a specialist in obstetrics/genecology who has delivered more than 4,000 babies over the years when not complaining of government over-reach.
Paul spoke this morning to hundreds of GOP activists on the second day of the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference. Candidates Mitt Romney, John McCain and Fred Thompson are scheduled to speak later in the day.
Despite low poll numbers and criticism from some Republicans for his opposition to the Iraq war, Paul has an enthusiastic following. When he arrived at the Grand Hotel on Friday evening, folks inside the historic Grand Hotel couldn't help but notice, given the loud and enthusiastic chants of "Ron Paul, Ron Paul."
"Government restricts people and protects the government," he told his supporters. "We don't have privacy anymore."
He told them his biggest asset is "my conviction that freedom will really work."
In an unscientific survey Friday morning, a conference participant who drove up from Lansing counted more "Ron Paul" for president signs along the 230-mile route than for any other of the GOP hopefuls, with the possible exception of Michigan native and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
Paul was to have shared the Saturday morning breakfast with candidates Tom Tancredo and Sam Brownback, but both decided to skip the meeting of state GOP activists, donors and organizers.
Paul had a friendly exchange at the start of his presentation with state GOP Chairman Saul Anuzis. Earlier this year, Anuzis called for Paul to be excluded from future debates because of his opposition to the war in Iraq.
"He ought to appoint me his national co-chair," Anuzis told the breakfast gathering in introducing Paul. "I doubled his name recognition in 48 hours.
