The Paul campaign says in a news release that Chairman Nate Jones of New Plymouth is backing Paul in the March 6 presidential caucus.
The full news release follows:
Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul was endorsed today by the Chairman of the Payette County Republican Party, Nate Jones of New Plymouth. Payette County’s main population centers include Fruitland, New Plymouth and Payette.
In making his endorsement public, Mr. Jones issued the following statement:
“I support Paul because he’s the only candidate that understands how absolutely crucial individual liberty is. He is the only candidate that has a correct understanding of the proper role of government. Congressman Paul is a ‘statesman’ in every sense of the word. He’s humble, but unafraid and unashamed to forcefully speak the truth, even when it’s unpopular…for it is often said that ‘truth is treason in the empire of lies.’
“I decided several years ago to vote by principle, no longer by popularity or persuasion, and have never looked back. My wife and I, along with our parents and many of our closest friends, have been awakened. We forever will be grateful for the knowledge Paul has given us. His message, if heeded, is the only one that will preserve this nation, God willing.”
Describing himself as “simply a husband and father of four,” Mr. Jones is by trade a web developer when not furthering the cause of freedom as a longtime activist. In addition to currently serving as the Chairman of the Payette County Republican Party, he is also Treasurer of the Idaho Young Republicans.
Providing a strong boost to Ron Paul’s Idaho state organization, such endorsements present Ron Paul as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney. They also demonstrate that the 12-term Congressman from Texas has the only campaign organization capable of maintaining a 50-state competition with the moderate-establishment Romney.
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Ron Paul would NEVER get
Ron Paul would NEVER get this conservative's vote EVEN if he was the nominee. I don't vote for liberals!
Your right about Libertarians
These people don't understand the value and importance of community. Many of these so called Libertarians, use public infrastructure everyday but think they would be better off without it. Crazy stuff for sure
Are you talking about
Are you talking about liberals or libertarians? Because Ron Paul is about as conservative (in the true sense of the word) as there is out there.
Libertarian/Conservative
same/same.
Same?
I have to respectfully disagree. I don't see any similarity in their views regarding legislating personal liberty and morality.
Conservative as defined by Russell Kirk
Sadly what a Conservative is has been distorted beyond recognition by right wing Progressives. And yes, that is not an oxymoron. Right wing Progressives are those that seek to use government to coerce society for their ideology just like left wing Progressives.
Russell Kirk's essay on: "The Essence of Conservatism". Looking at those principles, the only Conservative candidate running for the GOP nomination is Ron Paul as he is 100% in line with those principles.
The above begs a bit of an explanation. Social Conservatives and Neo-Conservatives do not meet the criteria set by Russell Kirk, but they do meet the historical criteria of Wilsonian Progressives. In particular, on Kirk's list number 5:
----(5) "Power is full of danger; therefore the good state is one in which power is checked and balanced, restricted by sound constitutions and customs. So far as possible, political power ought to be kept in the hands of private persons and local institutions. Centralization is ordinarily a sign of social decadence."
.......Romney, Santorum and Gingrich as well as Neo-Conservatives and many Social Conservatives fail to pass this principle. Paul is completely in sync.
-----(8) "In the affairs of nations, the American conservative feels that his country ought to set an example to the world, but ought not to try to remake the world in its image. It is a law of politics, as well as of biology, that every living thing loves above all else—even above its own life—its distinct identity, which sets it off from all other things. The conservative does not aspire to domination of the world, nor does he relish the prospect of a world reduced to a single pattern of government and civilization."
......Again, Ron Paul is in line with these principles, Santorum and Gingrich as well as all Neo-Conservatives and most Social Conservatives fail to pass this principle.
So, when people claim to know what Conservative is? People can call it anything they want, but it doesn't make it so, Suggest reading Kirk and perhaps Edmund Burke. The founders were also mostly real Conservatives. Also a good source.