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“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.”

- George Washington

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More information on Ron Paul being excluded from Sunday’s Fox News Debate in New Hampshire:

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“The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.”

- George Washington

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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.

- Samuel Adams

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“Revolutions are the periods of history when individuals count most.”

-Norman Mailer

Not just to the folks in Iowa, but everywhere. Your vote really does matter. Get out there and make a difference right now. And don’t lose heart because you’re told your candidate can’t win. They’ve been wrong before, and they’ll be wrong again.

Polls are wildly inaccurate, especially considering the technological shift from landlines to cell phones as the sole telecommunication device for the individual in the last several years. Remember the 1948 Presidential election? The pundits were wrong, the polls were wrong, the newspapers were wrong… even the Democrats and G.O.P. were wrong in their estimation:

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Read this, and when you caucus today, let nothing, even the size of your opposition, deter you from standing for your ideals.

“It is better to be alone than in bad company.”

-George Washington

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I just flipped on 99.7 here in Nashville to hear Bill O’Reilly’s Radio Factor coming on, and since he’s also a host on the Fox News channel, I figured I’d have a listen. Sure enough, within minutes, he casually addressed the growing discontent about Ron Paul’s exclusion from the upcoming Fox News forum in New Hampshire. (Duncan Hunter isn’t invited either, but apparently no one cares.) O’Reilly said:

 Look, it’s nothing personal, but he just hasn’t cracked 10 percent. He’s not performing.

Alrighty. Not an official set of criteria from Fox, but good to at least hear some reasoning behind the decision. Odd, though, since Dr. Paul is polling ahead of Giuliani in Iowa and pulled in over $20 million in the last quarter, leaving the rest of the GOP candidates in the fund-raising dust.

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I went out for the December 31st Ron Paul March. Honestly, I was a bit reluctant. Now, I’m a pretty ardent RP supporter, but even still, the media coverage and stereotype of the typical Ron Paul supporter had me worried that I’d meet up with a load of weed-smoking 9/11 conspiracy theorists that had just emerged from their mothers’ basements. (Yes, I’m sure there were a few there.) But there were also completely normal-looking people. People that didn’t appear to find meaning in life through the current fashionable protest. In fact, most people seemed to look around a little uncomfortably, just like me. First time? Yeah… Not really sure how we do this.

We met at Riverside Park, and noticed that the Music City Bowl was just fixing to let out. Most of the crowd would have to walk across the walking bridge, so we decided to just set up shop and let them see us.

There was definitely a mixed response. Aside from the random shouts of support for either UK or FSU, about half the responses were shouts of approval for Ron Paul. The other half could be divided up amongst the other candidates. And one for McCain.

Some of the responses were downright strange:

“Well, I was going to vote for him, but now I won’t.”

“Can’t we just enjoy a football game?”

“You all are a bunch of kooks,” as the fella’s wife takes a handout.

After the bridge, we took a walk around downtown. Much more lively and supportive a response. We even found a few that joined our march. One Kentucky fan left the bar and joined us, telling me, “You guys made my night.” Keep in mind that Kentucky won the Music City Bowl.

Don’t dismiss it, especially based on a stereotype. The most ridiculous thing to do in politics is assume that a candidate’s supporters are what defines him. Instead, read the platform to find out what he says he’ll do, and read his record to find out if he’s a liar.

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“The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government - lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.”

- Patrick Henry

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“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.”

-  John Quincy Adams

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