How did you hear about Ron Paul ?

[purepaloma]

I think it'll be interesting to see how the word is spreading.

From a Friend ?
An email ?
YouTube/Google Video ?
MySpace ?
Internet Blog ?
Internet Article ?
Flyer ?
Sign on Road ?
TV Interview ?
TV Debate ?
Documentary?

etc



I'll start: For me, I got to know Ron Paul first from TV - in particular him asking tough questions to Greenspan a few years ago during a Fed Meeting. I thought, "This guy is sharp!"

 

[DjLoTi]

Alternative news website

 

[mtbaird5687]

1st debate. I saw him and was blown away.

 

[angrydragon]

Add a poll.

As for me, about 7 years ago between reading things from the LP website to other websites and to reading articles on Lew Rockwell.

 

[Tin_Foil_Hat]

I think it'll be interesting to see how the word is spreading.

From a Friend ?
An email ?
YouTube/Google Video ?
MySpace ?
Internet Blog ?
Internet Article ?
Flyer ?
Sign on Road ?
TV Interview ?
TV Debate ?
Documentary

You didn't have newspaper on there. I first heard of him back in the 80's while reading conservative papers. That was before the internet.

 

[Exponent]

1st Republican debate provided name recognition. Then, in preparation for the 2nd debate, and in response to a mention of "Ron Paul" and "YouTube" in the same post on http://www.peakoil.com, I checked out videos of him on YouTube. After that, I was intensely interested.

 

[beermotor]

Add a poll.

As for me, about 7 years ago between reading things from the LP website to other websites and to reading articles on Lew Rockwell.

Ditto - but about 6 years.

 

[llamabread]

Here's an older thread on the same topic if you want to see some more people's responses.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=1400

 

[Gunslinger]

A few years ago when a friend started sending me links from lewrockwell.com and such. Thanks to Ron Paul, I am not longer an ignorant neo-con.

 

[mdh]

State LP pals.

 

[joenaab]

In March of 2006. Either via Alex Jones or the Lew Rockwell site, can't remember which came first. His essays/speeches blew me away. I didn't think such a man/politician could exist.

 

[dude58677]

I was a member of a swimming pool called the Montgomery Aquatic Center in 1999-2001. I was libertarian before as I voted for Harry Browne. A friend of mine owned his own business and often complained about the IRS. One day he said "There is so much corruption in Washington it's sick. However, there is a guy in Texas who is a Congressman and anything that is not in the Constitution, he votes against it. I wish that he could be multiplied by 200." I looked him up later and found out his name was Ron Paul. Harry Bowne mentioned him in his articles and said favorable things about him.

 

[BravoSix]

I read an article in Backwoods Home Magazine, of which I'm a subscriber. After I read the Editor singing Ron Paul's praises, I looked into RP more in depth and LOVED what I saw.

I'm still having a hard time believing that he's actually a politician.....

 

[RP08]

For me for the longest time, RP's name flew by me as unremarkably as another car in traffic, even after appearances on several TV shows that I enjoy, AND watching the full-length debates (both Dem and GOP).

It wasn't until I saw him on a cheap hour-long documentary on Google/YouTube a handful of days ago, called FIAT Empire, that I had this overwhelming desire to find out more about this man. So glad I did. Just a few days of research after that and I'm pretty well hooked.

 

[NoxTwilight]

America: Freedom to Fascism

Towards the end of last year I watched America: Freedom to Fascism and it really upset me. I had never felt so helpless and without hope. Ron Paul really got my attention and as BravoSix said, I found it very hard to believe he was a politician!

Then I heard he was running for President and hope .. springs!!

I stilll feel pretty helpless at times but it helps knowing that I am not alone, not crazy in thinking that this country CAN be put on the right track. That we can take our country back from the neo-con MIC and NWO beasts.

 

[tsoldrin]

About 4-5 years ago I was writing an abstract on the Conspiracy Theory subculture from a perspective of how the Bush administration engenders it through secrecy and feeds it by ... well, bascially enacting policy that exactly matches what many conspiracy theorists have feared for a long time now... anyhow, in the course of debunking some of their tenets, I found that a little more than half the time they weren't so crazy after all and those parts meshed pretty well with what I knew from the intelligence community. Needless to say, I entered that rabbit hole and joined the ranks of conspiracy theorists, (picture typing angry letters to the government under a naked lightbulb in the basement at 3am while listening to shortwave radio, demanding that Freedom Of Information Act requests be fulfilled)...
Somewhere in there Ron Paul kept cropping up... a recurring theme if you will. Usually it was along the lines of someone decrying the government as all bad, evil and corrupt and someone else correcting them with 'except Ron Paul'. I checked him out and he was as good as people made him out to be... a real hero. One of a kind. I eventually came to the conclusion that while conspiracy theorists were correct about a lot of things, by mixing some very real and important information with the more kooky stuff they were in fact working against themselves by 'tainting' the good stuff with the stink of crazy, and I drifted away from that. One of the things I brought with me however was a deep respect, admiration and even love for Dr. Ron Paul.

 

[LibertyEagle]

I was raised hearing my parents gush over him. My mother subscribed to his newsletter, Survival Report, when he was out of office for awhile. About 20 years ago, he had a video series on issues of liberty that ran on Access TV where I live. Heck, my mother even drug me to one of his monetary conferences in New Hampshire about 12-13 years ago. It was actually very cool... had dinner with Murray Rothbard several times.

Suffice it to say, I've been hooked for a LONG time.

 

[Shmuel Spade]

When I was at the Colbert Report with the other Paul supporters, I learned that a good number of them found out about the Congressman through Alex Jones. I was disappointed, but I said "whatever."

 

[tsoldrin]

When I was at the Colbert Report with the other Paul supporters, I learned that a good number of them found out about the Congressman through Alex Jones. I was disappointed, but I said "whatever."

That's an incredibly divisive thing to say. I think you're an ass.

 

[agisthos]

I became a libertarian 10 years ago. Heard that there was one congressman in the US who was incoruptable, tells the truth about the federal reserve/fiat money and actually ran on the Libertarian ticket during the 80's.

It wasn't until I started reading www.lewrockwell.com that I realised who it was. Almost every Ron Paul article is on Lews great website.