What converted you to Ron Paul? What is your personal story?

[Drex]

Everything he said made perfect sense to me. Also he is the only one who doesn't bullshit or change his views for his audience.

 

[bbartlog]

Same as Paul4Prez. In 1987 I was at college, 19 years old and apolitical. Ran across some Libertarian pamphlets and said 'hey, that makes a lot of sense'. Went to see Paul speak (he actually came to my university). Voted for him in 1988, 2008 (twice... write-in in the general). My own political evolution has actually followed his (somewhat) in that I changed my mind about open borders over time.
Always found it strange that no one else in Congress emulated him. How hard can it be? Well, I guess it must be pretty hard, since he's the only one; but he certainly showed that it was *politically* feasible to be incorruptible.

 

[Gravik]

Basically watching videos of Paul speak. Especially this one:

 

[The_Ruffneck]

I gave up on the MSM back in 2004 when i woke up to the 9/11 false flag.
Being on alternative internet based news sites exposes you to people and movements like this early on.

 

[Jovan Galtic]

I'm not a US citizen and should not necessarily care that much...

I am also not a US citizen, but got completely addicted to RP and Freedom. When I was a kid, living in a socialist country, we always dreamed about the USA, liberty and opportunities we could have if we once somehow manage to get there. My friends had a slang word for something good: "American". When someone made a good basketball shot he would pump the fist and shout: "American!". It was just a joke, but illustrative of what we respected and liked.

Unfortunately, as soon as I reached adulthood, instead of peacefully transitioning to capitalism like most of other sane people did, a group of idiots in power lead my country into a bloody civil war. Western MSM picked sides and turned completely against my nation spreading unbelievable, gruesome lies (we were bad, but not any worse than others) and it ended with "humanitarian" NATO bombing of our cities. Though we were always allies and never, ever did anything against the US. Of course, that changed the attitude of most of my countrymen a little... It was not very popular to be pro-US, but I was stubborn to find out what went wrong. Read Thomas Paine, Constitution, Declaration of Independence etc. It was all perfect, but completely different from today. I couldn't see any of that spirit in people like Clinton or Bush, quite the opposite. It looked like the real America - home of the brave land of the free - doesn't exist any more.

Anyway, meanwhile I moved to the US and continued studying free market economics - the Austrian School was great eye-opener, finally everything I believed my whole life made sense. This is what led me to Ron Paul, I think Tom Woods mentioned him in a book (I don't remember exactly, could be "Meltdown"...), I went online to Google the name and what I found brought tears to my eyes... America I dreamed about as a kid was alive! Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Mind your own business, don't meddle into the affairs of others, free market, freedom of speech, freedom to defend yourself, self reliance, minimal government, no welfare state... Liberty baby! It's been a couple of years now and I still Google that name first thing in the morning to see what's new.

 

[SonofThunder]

Here's mine (mid-section of this article)

http://itsmyblog.com/2011/12/we-are-still-suffering-from-bush-derangement-syndrome/

 

[dude58677]

I was 11 years old and the year was 1991. I was reading about the 1988 Presidential Election results. I noticed that there were other candidates besides Bush Sr and Dukakis. I saw this candidate with two first names what was next to "Libertarian Party". I also felt bad about this guy getting so few votes. My mother told me that they must stand for something.

In 2000, I was following the Presidential Election and leaning towards Bush because his father seemed like a gentlemen and believed in a little less taxes than Gore. About a few days before the Election, a friend of my brother was reading some article about what the third parties stood for. He mentioned the Libertarian Party which was familiar. It said that "you can do anything you want as long as you don't hurt others". That got my attention. I read online about the parties nominee named Harry Browne. His article that he wrote sent my mind spinning. I was amazed that soemone made that much sense and agreed with me everything. Also I was wondering how come no one heard of him. Everythime I read things he wrote, I got excited. He was a diamond that came out of nowhere. Well I joined a local indoor swimming pool and this member of the pool told me about a Texas Congressman known as Dr. No because he always voted in accordance with the Constitution. He also wished that he could be mulitplied by 200. I looked up Dr. No and found his name was Ron Paul and it was the same name that I read back when I was 11. Harry Browne said that he was like Thomas Jefferson.

 

[azn4mrpaul]

I love the American people even though most of them don't look like me. Such kind and smart people are also pathologically naive and being led by the nose. This reminds me of my own people and our suffering. I'm an emotional guy and there are hundreds of other reasons so I don't want to bore you. Once I know I need to support Mr. Paul to save the Republic and benefit the people, I jumped in with both feet.

 

[Jordan]

It was 2007 and I started seeing videos about Ron Paul online. I really liked his foreign policy, since it just made sense. Every war ends eventually, always by two sides agreeing to peace. I was sold.

Then I started watching the debates. There were two things I noticed:

1) Ron was the only person who actually answered questions. He gave answers; others gave fake, scripted responses.

2) Ron was the only person who was honest, and his 30-year track record was proof enough for me that this guy should be president.

 

[Revolution_Ready]

My beautiful wife from Argentina turned me onto Dr. Paul. See she isn't only beautiful, she is very intelligent.

 

[Conza88]

His principles. Having the balls to be anti-war in a republican party. What a friggin' 'crazy' class act! Then I educated myself with Austrian Economics etc.

 

[Albyint]

Well it originally started with my hatred of the drug war. Eventually after a lot of reading, I realized that my positions on a lot of things were actually counterproductive. I hadnt truly realized how to define myself politically, and thanks to RP, I was able to do so and get myself in a mindset that for the first time, I knew what it was that I wanted to achieve.

Thats my little story lol.

 

[dfalken]

It was 1999 when I realized the whole US system was built on smoke and mirrors and my veil came completely off. I started following him then and I also made huge returns shorting the markets in late 2000. I turned a couple of thousand into several hundred thousand using options, it was an amazing ride. I became more sinical as they years went by and I finally left the US in 2008 for good. It is great to see that there is hope, I never thought I'd see the day where a Ron Paul presidency could be a reality.

 

[Jerkface]

The Rudy Giuliani vs Paul video. That's what's did it for me. I thought "who is this guy, and what the hell is he talking about?". It didn't take long to realize that he was right about blowback and made a lot of sense.
Funny thing about agreeing with Ron Paul is that it changes you forever. I have never seen someone who supported him and then went full neo-con again. It would be like willingly putting blindfolds back on. You just can't do it. Once you realize how much sense he makes, you can see through the politicians and their dirty rhetoric.

 

[SonofThunder]

My beautiful wife from Argentina turned me onto Dr. Paul. See she isn't only beautiful, she is very intelligent.

Mark Sanford, is that you?

 

[No Free Beer]

Ron Paul Library...

 

[Moo2400]

The Rudy Giuliani vs Paul video. That's what's did it for me.

Same here.

I had vaguely known about Ron Paul and his positions from a friend since 2006, but it was only after seeing that clip in 2007 that really made me go wow. As much as I supported him from after that, I really doubted he had any hope of gaining any sort of momentum to make a real difference so I tended to not give it all a great deal of attention, at least until the Nov. 5th moneybomb. After that, I more or less put my full support behind him.

 

[Ireland4Liberty]

Very easy answer... Digg. Thanks guys.

 

[Evilfox]

When I was watching the fox debate and Guilliani asked him to take back his statement and he didnt, I was like WHO IS THIS GUY and DID HE JUST SAY THAT! And then I thought about it and read up on blowback and I was turned.

 

[pacelli]

The Rudy Giuliani vs Paul video. That's what's did it for me. I thought "who is this guy, and what the hell is he talking about?". It didn't take long to realize that he was right about blowback and made a lot of sense.
Funny thing about agreeing with Ron Paul is that it changes you forever. I have never seen someone who supported him and then went full neo-con again. It would be like willingly putting blindfolds back on. You just can't do it. Once you realize how much sense he makes, you can see through the politicians and their dirty rhetoric.

Same here. He stood out from the other candidates because he was thoughtful. He really got me though when he brought up the golden rule as it pertains to foreign policy: How would we feel if somebody did that to us?

It was simple yet profound at the same time.