I knew I was going to support Ron Paul when....

[ForLiberty2012]

... when I heard him in one of the 2007 debates schooling Rudy and the rest of the muppet show on foreign policy. I had already felt that the wars were immoral and unjustified and everything he said made perfect sense and introduced me to the concept of blowback. I started researching him more, and I realized that everything he was saying made perfect sense!

When/what made you decide to support Ron Paul??

 

[dmitchell]

Same story.

 

[Elfshadow]

The last debate. When he was schooling them about Iran. Sadly it was the first time I figured out there was a librtarian running under the republican banner. Wish I had known in 07'-08' when I was just assuming any republican and democrate was the same

 

[dusman]

I was deployed to Korea in '07 and heard him during the '07 debates ask why we had troops there. It was like a tractor-beam that sucked me in. Once I started looking into his policies and saw how strongly he upheld the Constitution, it was a done deal.

 

[TexMac]

I was blogging on AntiWar.com at the time and we all supported him because he was antiwar before he declared. After he declared, most of us started campaigning for him.

 

[ForLiberty2012]

I was deployed to Korea in '07 and heard him during the '07 debates ask why we had troops there. It was like a tractor-beam that sucked me in. Once I started looking into his policies and saw how strongly he upheld the Constitution, it was a done deal.

That's interesting you say this, because 20% of the traffic on these forums come from South Korea according to alexa.com

 

[Travlyr]

I read The Revolution: A Manifesto

 

[Cleaner44]

...when I heard he had entered the race. I don't remember when I first found out about him, but I long considered him one the only honest people in D.C. so when I haerd he was running I was on board. Probably my learning about Michael Badnarik led me to Ron Paul.

 

[rp713]

in 08 i supported obama simply for his wanting to end the wars, and it seemed like he wanted change. after his first term i stopped supporting him. just more of the same. early this year i started looking at the gop field and found ron paul on youtube. the rest was history.

 

[FSP-Rebel]

I've been heavily indoctrinated as a libertarian since I was around ten y.o. and always knew Ron to be a good friend to the ideology. Twenty years later and here I am.

 

[Eric21ND]

When I saw his very candid interview in Freedom to Fascism by Aaron Russo. I remember thinking, "wow I wish someone like him would run for President". Within a year he was a candidate. His early appearance on Bill Maher and his subsequent debate performances only solidified my support...He was "my guy".

 

[Crickett]

Had heard his name, but did not pay attention. Then I had gone to the Liberty Dollar website and that guy was talking about him, quite at length, so I finally checked him out (2007, before he was arrested). IMMEDIATELY I knew he was the one, and found DP and RPF and have supported Ron ever since. So, it was basically just people on the internet, talking about him.

 

[Steve-in-NY]

hear about him on some internet forum or comments or something, found out he hadnt wavered on his positions in years, looked into him a bit more, decided.

 

[69360]

... when I heard him in one of the 2007 debates schooling Rudy and the rest of the muppet show on foreign policy. I had already felt that the wars were immoral and unjustified and everything he said made perfect sense and introduced me to the concept of blowback. I started researching him more, and I realized that everything he was saying made perfect sense!

When/what made you decide to support Ron Paul??

Same thing, the 07 debates. Voted for RP in 08.

 

[leonster]

That's interesting you say this, because 20% of the traffic on these forums come from South Korea according to alexa.com

I'm one of them! I'm an (American) English teacher here in Ilsan, Korea.

But 20%?? Wow, that's high!

 

[IDefendThePlatform]

I was blogging on AntiWar.com at the time and we all supported him because he was antiwar before he declared. After he declared, most of us started campaigning for him.

That's great to hear. How do we get more of the antiwar vote?

 

[Sola_Fide]

...when I was supporting Bob Dole and some volunteers from the Constitution Party told me about this congressman from Texas who was the only true conservative left.

 

[dusman]

That's interesting you say this, because 20% of the traffic on these forums come from South Korea according to alexa.com

Is that historical or current? During my deployment it was probably a hot topic because we had about 400 soldiers writing Congress. They DEPLOYED our unit (first in 50 years) under Operation Iraqi Freedom. Not only was it probably fraud and unconstitutional, it also came with no pay benefits. I lost $50.00 a month when we got on the peninsula. Hundreds of our unit's families were ran broke because of the pay cut to deploy and had to maintain two households, essentially.

Pretty nasty scenario. We were successful in moving Congress to make the change, but it didn't impact us. The response from command was that our deployment was experimental and that future units won't go through what we did. They did do an interim pay increase that was about $100 more per month. However, for a whole year every other soldier/airman/marine on the peninsula was making about $300.00 more per month than we were.

Want to piss off a mass of soldiers? Make their families poor deploying to a country with no apparent necessity besides being a deterrent, while working next to other soldiers who are living it up with their extra money being stationed in the same location.

 

[bluesc]

Yahoo answers back in '07. I saw a mention of him, and looked him up. Never looked back.

Now I'm very active in the election section of Yahoo Answers, all pro-RP answers and I have 33% best answer, so I guess we are doing well there.

It's a great way to reach undecideds.

 

[TexMac]

That's great to hear. How do we get more of the antiwar vote?

You mean the website? As far as I know, the webmaster is foursquare behind RP, as are almost all of the writers. As for the rest of the true antiwar voters, at least this time around we don't have Obama pretending to be antiwar and siphoning off some of the antiwar vote. Now we just have to win those voters and get them to switch to the R party.

We didn't do a very good job of it last time around.