Badger Paul
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Ron Paul needs a good speech writer The speech he made in Iowa was fine for his hardcore supporters to listen too, it was good for the well of the House or would have been fine for a Von Mises Institute dinner. But for a large venue, probably the largest Rep. Paul has spoken too all year I think, I’m not sure how well it went over to just the average voter watching on the tube or in the hall. He spoke extempt style as he is wont to. He made good points and was especially strong ones in the foreign policy parts of it that got the crowd going. But when he talks monetary policy it was like being in a classroom or being with a few academics. The tangents you can go off on when talking such esoterics are endless and he still has that sort of goofy, ld uncle quality to him that’s nice but may not convince people he’s serious about being president. When you’ve got an army ready to march for you you’ve got to fire them up not ramble about the Federal Reserve. There’s a time and a place for such talks like to economists or intellectuals, not to a campaign rally.
This is important because if RP is going to become president he’s going to have to make some big speeches to big audiences and he’s going to have to change his style to do so. Now I’m not suggesting he speak with fire and brimstone because he would look silly. It’s got to be a style he’s comfortable with and can articulate well with. He’s not a great public speaker because he’s not had to be, but he can get better if he has a good speech writer who can fit a style to the candidate and reach the voters’ emotions. Like it or not, emotions are what move voters and RP is going have to capture those emotions and speak in a style that shows him at his friendly best but also shows a seriousness to him. If he gives the speech he made in Des Moines to the audience in Ames (which he really can’t because the candidates are only allotted 15-20 minuets for speeches at the straw poll), which will be in front of 15,000 people instead of 1,000, most of them will be outside in the halls instead of being in the arena other than his supporters.
So I've taken the liberty to writing a speech RP can say during the Iowa Straw Poll. I hope you like it:
Ron Paul Speech to Ames Iowa Straw Poll
The state of Iowa has a great motto: “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” It’s this motto that at is the heart of my campaign for President and one I hope all of us in this arena share.
Because when I am President ladies and gentlemen, we will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by abolishing the instruments of government that currently threaten those liberties and our rights.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by abolishing the Federal Reserve Board, the IRS, the income tax, the inflation tax and all those entities of government that are unconstitutional.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by revoking the Patriot Act, REAL ID, No Child Left Behind and other laws that are also outside the bounds of our constitution or rushed through Congress without proper debate or proper time and consideration that is demanded of us as elected representatives of the people of this great country.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by restoring the rule of law and accountability for our public officials. We will restore habeous corpus, abolish military tribunals and close down the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by ending the so-called War on Drugs, the taking of private property for the enrichment of the few and the powerful and other attacks upon the life, property and civil liberties of our citizens.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by restoring power to our state governments and local communities so that a government of our friends and neighbors replaces a government of distant few, the distant rich and the distant powerful.
And we will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by liberating our economy and our foreign policy from control of the special interests, control of Middle Eastern oil and Middle Eastern dictators and the control of criminal ideologues who have driven us into a disastrous conflict in Iraq that has needlessly cost the lives of thousands of brave men and women.
Some of those lives lost have come from this great state of Iowa. Many have come from small towns and farms all over this country. For too long the powers that be have wasted the lives of the young, the brave, the talented and the inspirational from our rural areas. They have taken away the best and the brightest from our small towns not to defend our soil but to police the world. They wasted them as cannon fodder for their sinister plans of empire and control of free markets and control of others without their consent. They have wasted them in their utopian dreams and mad schemes that only masked their desires for power.
For too long rural America has had to bare the burden of empire and war. The fallen have returned home to funerals, the wounded return home broken in body and spirit while the rest of country goes on with business as usual without any thought of the war and its consequences. The media and the powers that be hide that reality behind the images of celebrities and materialism and tell you that’s what important, not the fact that brave Americans are dying for reasons that turned out to be lies. Or that they died because they were not adequately prepared, or because they were not adequately equipped or because they were put into the middle of religious war that has nothing to do with our struggle against Al Qaeda or our national interest.
Well I say enough! When I become President, I can say to you, the fathers and mothers of America, that you need not worry for the safety of your sons and daughters anymore. Because they, are coming home.
Some will hear this speech today and say that I am a radical. That I am not a “real Republican in their mistaken eyes, their mistaken ears and mistaken minds. But I say to you that these words are nothing new. They have been spoken by Republicans time and time again throughout our party’s history. They were spoken by Robert LaFollette as Democrats tried to silence his opposition to World War I. They were spoken by Henry Cabot Lodge as he led the opposition in the Senate against one-world internationalism of Woodrow Wilson. They were spoken by Robert Taft, Mr. Republican himself. They were spoken by the great Dwight Eisenhower as he brought the Korean War to an end. They were spoken by Richard Nixon as he brought the Vietnam War to an end. They were spoken by great Iowa Republicans like H.R. Gross and Burke Hickenlooper as they fought against government waste, the military-industrial complex and the Vietnam War. And they were spoken by the beloved Ronald Reagan as he pulled U.S. troops out the quagmire of Lebanon and brought us to victory in the Cold War not through open conflict, but with peace through strength.
We Republicans must face up to the fact that we have lost our way and lost what we hold dear to ourselves. But we can easily find our way back to the White House and back to control of Congress if we allow the Republican Party of history and tradition to live and breathe and jump again. I say to you that the energy that has been a part of my campaign since its start earlier this year, the energy and enthusiasm of thousands of people all across this country from every kind of background, every kind of age, every kind of place and every kind of faith, can be the energy of a restored Republican Party. Together we can make what’s old new again and together we can take back our party from those who have led us astray.
Today, I ask you all to be part of the excitement, be a part of the legacy and be a part of the fun of making the Republican Party become itself again. Thank you all very much and God Bless each and every one of you!
This is important because if RP is going to become president he’s going to have to make some big speeches to big audiences and he’s going to have to change his style to do so. Now I’m not suggesting he speak with fire and brimstone because he would look silly. It’s got to be a style he’s comfortable with and can articulate well with. He’s not a great public speaker because he’s not had to be, but he can get better if he has a good speech writer who can fit a style to the candidate and reach the voters’ emotions. Like it or not, emotions are what move voters and RP is going have to capture those emotions and speak in a style that shows him at his friendly best but also shows a seriousness to him. If he gives the speech he made in Des Moines to the audience in Ames (which he really can’t because the candidates are only allotted 15-20 minuets for speeches at the straw poll), which will be in front of 15,000 people instead of 1,000, most of them will be outside in the halls instead of being in the arena other than his supporters.
So I've taken the liberty to writing a speech RP can say during the Iowa Straw Poll. I hope you like it:
Ron Paul Speech to Ames Iowa Straw Poll
The state of Iowa has a great motto: “Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain.” It’s this motto that at is the heart of my campaign for President and one I hope all of us in this arena share.
Because when I am President ladies and gentlemen, we will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by abolishing the instruments of government that currently threaten those liberties and our rights.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by abolishing the Federal Reserve Board, the IRS, the income tax, the inflation tax and all those entities of government that are unconstitutional.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by revoking the Patriot Act, REAL ID, No Child Left Behind and other laws that are also outside the bounds of our constitution or rushed through Congress without proper debate or proper time and consideration that is demanded of us as elected representatives of the people of this great country.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by restoring the rule of law and accountability for our public officials. We will restore habeous corpus, abolish military tribunals and close down the prison at Guantanamo Bay.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by ending the so-called War on Drugs, the taking of private property for the enrichment of the few and the powerful and other attacks upon the life, property and civil liberties of our citizens.
We will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by restoring power to our state governments and local communities so that a government of our friends and neighbors replaces a government of distant few, the distant rich and the distant powerful.
And we will prize our liberties and maintain our rights by liberating our economy and our foreign policy from control of the special interests, control of Middle Eastern oil and Middle Eastern dictators and the control of criminal ideologues who have driven us into a disastrous conflict in Iraq that has needlessly cost the lives of thousands of brave men and women.
Some of those lives lost have come from this great state of Iowa. Many have come from small towns and farms all over this country. For too long the powers that be have wasted the lives of the young, the brave, the talented and the inspirational from our rural areas. They have taken away the best and the brightest from our small towns not to defend our soil but to police the world. They wasted them as cannon fodder for their sinister plans of empire and control of free markets and control of others without their consent. They have wasted them in their utopian dreams and mad schemes that only masked their desires for power.
For too long rural America has had to bare the burden of empire and war. The fallen have returned home to funerals, the wounded return home broken in body and spirit while the rest of country goes on with business as usual without any thought of the war and its consequences. The media and the powers that be hide that reality behind the images of celebrities and materialism and tell you that’s what important, not the fact that brave Americans are dying for reasons that turned out to be lies. Or that they died because they were not adequately prepared, or because they were not adequately equipped or because they were put into the middle of religious war that has nothing to do with our struggle against Al Qaeda or our national interest.
Well I say enough! When I become President, I can say to you, the fathers and mothers of America, that you need not worry for the safety of your sons and daughters anymore. Because they, are coming home.
Some will hear this speech today and say that I am a radical. That I am not a “real Republican in their mistaken eyes, their mistaken ears and mistaken minds. But I say to you that these words are nothing new. They have been spoken by Republicans time and time again throughout our party’s history. They were spoken by Robert LaFollette as Democrats tried to silence his opposition to World War I. They were spoken by Henry Cabot Lodge as he led the opposition in the Senate against one-world internationalism of Woodrow Wilson. They were spoken by Robert Taft, Mr. Republican himself. They were spoken by the great Dwight Eisenhower as he brought the Korean War to an end. They were spoken by Richard Nixon as he brought the Vietnam War to an end. They were spoken by great Iowa Republicans like H.R. Gross and Burke Hickenlooper as they fought against government waste, the military-industrial complex and the Vietnam War. And they were spoken by the beloved Ronald Reagan as he pulled U.S. troops out the quagmire of Lebanon and brought us to victory in the Cold War not through open conflict, but with peace through strength.
We Republicans must face up to the fact that we have lost our way and lost what we hold dear to ourselves. But we can easily find our way back to the White House and back to control of Congress if we allow the Republican Party of history and tradition to live and breathe and jump again. I say to you that the energy that has been a part of my campaign since its start earlier this year, the energy and enthusiasm of thousands of people all across this country from every kind of background, every kind of age, every kind of place and every kind of faith, can be the energy of a restored Republican Party. Together we can make what’s old new again and together we can take back our party from those who have led us astray.
Today, I ask you all to be part of the excitement, be a part of the legacy and be a part of the fun of making the Republican Party become itself again. Thank you all very much and God Bless each and every one of you!
