Ron Paul: A Republican Takes the Lead Against the War - Rolling Stone
Posted November 14th, 2007 by Michael Nystrom
Tim Dickinson |Posted Nov 14, 2007 7:06 AM
Rolling Stone
Ron Paul may be an old-school Republican, but no other candidate running for president — in either party — has spoken out against the war in Iraq as bluntly as he has. Sure, the former obstetrician has a goofy nostalgia for the gold standard, not to mention medieval views on abortion and immigration. But his anti-war stance has not only helped him bank more campaign cash than Iraq-backer John McCain, it has garnered him more contributions from military families than any candidate in the race. On November 5th, Paul raised $4.2 million online — a record single-day haul for a GOP presidential candidate. Rolling Stone caught up with the seventy-two-year-old Texan in between votes at his day job in the House of Representatives.
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Positive Snail Mail Time!
OK, let's do what I have been preaching; send a snail mail letter to Tim at Rolling Stone thanking him for doing an article on Ron Paul.
Our letters should be positive, complimentary and lighthearted. I doubt Tim is hoping for an intellectual debate with 200 of us via nasty long emails back and forth... we will just make him less likely to do anything else on Ron Paul.
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My letter-
Shepard Humphries
PO Box 7927
Jackson, WY 83002
November 15th, 2007
Rolling Stone Magazine
ATTN: Tim Dickinson
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104 – 0298
Dear Tim,
I am a Ron Paul supporter and am writing to thank you for your piece on him! I don’t know about “goofy” (Regarding Ron – but I definitely am :)) but I liked your article and the exposure it gave to Ron.
Thanks again for a great article!
Shepard Humphries
Just Declare Victory
I wish Ron Paul would have said again, "Just Declare Victory and Just Come Home".
Instead he said, "Just quit" and "just come home"--- not so good.
I wish he would say, "Just Declare Victory, Come Home from Iraq, and we will redouble our efforts to get Bin Laden"
Treg
Nostalgic and medieval?!?
I guess I'm nostalgic for being able to count on having $1 earned be able to purchase $1 worth of goods.
And it's medieval to think that life begins at conception? Last I checked no one could with certainty define when it begins. So how is he wrong if he truely believes that abortion is a form of murder and should be left to the states?
I guess it's the life of a rockstar that we should all idolize... screw anything that gives you attention and then give the mother the choice to kill the kid.
I somehow started getting RS in the mail and read the last issue and it was sickening. It's all propaganda. There's never a question about IF, everything is certain. There IS no God, global warming IS caused by humans, and you ARE heartless if you feel charities shoud help the poor, not the money grubbing politicians.
Abortion is Medieval
I think abortion is medieval. Right out of the Dark Ages and the Inquisition.
Healthnuttie for Ron Paul
I see this as
I see this as, Tim Dickerson was SHOCKED by the overwhelming negative response his hit-piece got, and has been doing some soul searching. Good for him ;)
Glad to see Rolling Stone coverage,
even though there are some stupid slaps at Dr. Paul's pro-life stance, etc., this is generally a positive article from a magazine that is in position to communicate with young, hip, draft-vulnerable youth.
These young readers of RS (who may not yet have seriously considered Ron Paul) need to get registered so they can vote to make RP the GOP candidate. They need to realize they are voting for their lives and their freedom to indulge in consciousness-altering substances without fear, as well as important economic issues like removing the drag of Social Security from their meager pachecks and removing obstacles to a rebirth of American industrial competitiveness.
I sent them a comment thanking them for the coverage. I reminded them of their roots as the journal of the youth revolt of the 1970s, when we had Vietnam to command our attention. BTW, if you remember, we WON then, too.
Dr. Paul, as always, handled their questions beautifully. Thanks for posting this, Michael.
Ron Paul 2008: The most important vote of your life
A letter to MTV I wrote about their Ron Paul article...
Man, I thought this station was supposed to be "hip" and "with it."
This article shows that if you can't force-feed pop culture to your audience then you actually don't have a clue what is going on.
Something happens, everybody on the net knows right away, and then 2-3 days later the major news stations pick it up. Except MTV takes a week. And you all say the same garbage, like a bunch of parrots.
Ron Paul has nothing to do with Howard Dean or Guy Fawkes or any of that garbage. His ideas are not far out and there is more to report than 4.3 million dollars.
Why don't you guys ACTUALLY set a trend for once and report on any of the millions of things going on in the guys campaign.
Dozens of independent films get released every day, his volunteers paint their cars and fly his banners, he has the most support INTERNATIONALLY. That's right, the whole world wants to see him elected.
You could tap into real American History in the making. Don't you think it's about time you get with the times?
Positive snail mail
This letter will only serve to upset them and make them even less cooperative. If this letter was directed at me... I would say, "Screw em" and I would not cover him again...
On the other hand, if we write complimentary letters saying how it is "cool to see the most hip TV station run something on the most hip presidential candidate...." then they would like us and our man more and would be more liekly to run positive stuff in the future.
bump
bump
"not to mention medieval views on abortion and immigration."
Why does Rolling Stone magazine (which ceased being relevant a long time ago) continue to act as a huge shill for the illegal aliens who flood into this country daily across the southern border with Mexico? It's really disgusts me.
That line annoyed me as
That line annoyed me as well. It baffles me how many, many people don't understand that principles (like obeying the Constitution) are timeless. His line is as stupid as writing something like "not to mention medieval views on on genocide and rape." As if the current year makes any difference on the principle of the matter.
Short memory
isn't Tim Dickinson the guy we absolutely destroyed a couple weeks ago when he posted some idiotic uninformed opinions about Ron Paul? i guess this is his form of an apology.
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities." - Ayn Rand
Rolling Stone Ron Paul cover
Except Rolling Stone eats fetuses... just not the young, idealistic and draft vulnerable.
Canada Loves Ron Paul
Medieval Views on Immigration?
Yeah, enforcing our immingration laws is definitely "medieval."
What an idiot.
Penn & Teller or RP?
Watch the "bullshit immigration" Penn and Teller bit on youtube... I ahve for many years agreed with that stance more than RP's, but on all other issues I think RP is right on!
Immigration
Although I support Ron Paul, one of his plans on immigration reform provides a big problem for me. You can't propose to remove birthright citizenship and to uphold the constitution in the same breath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w...
Don't listen to me though, I'm descended mostly from dirty European immigrants.
14th Amendment
Not to get too nerdy on constitutional issues, but the 14th amendment is the cause of most of the constitutional outrages that come out of high courts nowadays. The Amendment itself was illegally ratified as has been documented by preeminent scholar on the subject, Forrest McDonald. It was one of the radical Republicans' amendments that Confederate States were required to ratify in order to be returned to statehood, begging the question of how they would ratify the amendments if they're not actually states. In at least two southern states the Union Army forced southern legislators at gunpoint to enter the state legislature buildings so that there could be a quorem allowing them to ratifiy the amendments.
The views of most of those who actually contributed in the constitutional convention certainly wouldn't be against disallowing birthright citizenship. George Washington wanted to cut off any and all further immagration in 1787 for goodness sakes.