How did you "discover" Ron Paul?

Heard Ron's name mentioned ONCE during the 2008 elections and that was through my grandpa who mentioned to me that this guy named Ron Paul was gathering massive support from the youth. Forgot about him until last Spring until, literally, one day a light bulb went off in my head and two words popped up in my head: Ron Paul. So, I instantly started researching and knew after about one minute that Ron was my guy.

Don't remember much else, other than it seemed like destiny to me.
 
It was somewhere around 2005-2007, I was into the 9/11 conspiracy and I think someone in that movement talked about voting for Ron Paul and that drew me in.
 
In the spring of 2007 his campaign bus drove by me on the way to college and I asked myself...

Who the fuck is Ron Paul?

So... I googled him :)

I started watching him in the debates, and the rest is history...
 
I read about his 434-1 votes and his consistent Constitutionalism in 2002, when I was still in high school. I knew at once I had found a politician who was actually worth a damn. He, alone among major politicians, agreed with the positions I had already taken on my own: all of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, all the time, for everyone. I knew he had my vote the second he declared in 2007 and again in 2011.

Of course I haven't known about him as long as, say, Voluntary Man, but can anyone match or beat me for knowing about him as young?
 
DanConway said:
I read about his 434-1 votes and his consistent Constitutionalism in 2002, when I was still in high school. I knew at once I had found a politician who was actually worth a damn. He, alone among major politicians, agreed with the positions I had already taken on my own: all of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, all the time, for everyone. I knew he had my vote the second he declared in 2007 and again in 2011.

Of course I haven't known about him as long as, say, Voluntary Man, but can anyone match or beat me for knowing about him as young?
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You got me. When I was a HS sophomore, I was a hardcore Reaganite.


But, so was Ron....back then.


In any case, Reagan turned out to be mostly talk, and I was pretty clueless back then, anyway. It took me longer than it did Ron to figure out we'd been duped.

I wish I'd been as smart as young as you.
 
Voluntary Man said:
You got me. When I was a HS sophomore, I was a hardcore Reaganite.


But, so was Ron....back then.


In any case, Reagan turned out to be mostly talk, and I was pretty clueless back then, anyway. It took me longer than it did Ron to figure out we'd been duped.

I wish I'd been as smart as young as you.
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That's a clever defense, nonetheless, and I wouldn't say it's invalid. I respect that. Reagan said a lot of great things, but wasn't quite up to par when it came to action.

Besides, this isn't a contest. All people who came to support Ron Paul by their own understanding (the only way worth a damn) have my respect, whether it was 25 years ago or yesterday, at the age of 15 or 85.
 
I watched the Zeitgeist video. The third part about the Fed blew my mind. I could not believe it. I started researching and stumbled across Ron Paul videos on youtube. Have been a supoorter ever since.
 
Lewrockwell.com. Probably started following him 05-06. I remember when I heard that he was throwing his hat into the 08 race an I went into the living room to tell my wife and best friend how excited I was that this guy was running.
 
The Giuliani stand-off. I had recently read Mike Mentzer's Heavy Duty II: Mind and Body (helped me recalibrate my mind, restoring my instinct to ask why? to everything), was flipping through channels, stopped on Fox News, and in the first sentence I heard from Ron Paul, I knew.
 
In 2009 I read the book Crashproof by Peter Schiff and it started me on the economic understanding of what is wrong, and led to the whole picture of liberty and Ron Paul. So for me it started with one book on economics on a long train ride.
 
Oddly enough it was conservative talk radio and the conservative blogosphere that drove me to Ron Paul, particularly Sean Hannity. I kept hearing Hannity talk about just how much he disagrees with Ron Paul on foreign policy, like he's trying to prove his credentials to the bloodthirsty masses. Also kept reading in the comments of HotAir, RedState and Ace how much of a "fool" or "idiot" or "crazy" or how "dangerous" Ron Paul was. So while on a trip to the local bookstore I spotted Ron Paul's book The Revolution, which I think had just been released. Read it and pretty much agreed with everything in it. Haven't looked back since.
 
I was surfing on YouTube one day and stumbled upon the Jon Stewart clip where he addressed the media's blackout of Ron Paul. I heard his name a few times during the 2008 election but never really looked into him. Stewart's video piqued my curiosity as I began researching about his policies. The first thing that struck me about his message was his mastery of economics. It was his advocating of deregulation and free markets that first drew me towards him. By extension, his libertarian and foreign policy ideals struck a chord with me as well.
 
back of a painted up RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008 RV in the redwood mountains of CA:D

Some around here like to call it the State of Jefferson.
 
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