Who in blazes is Ron Paul...

As I learn more and more about blogging, slogging through more and more about "what you should know" and "you should cut and paste this"...I kept noticing, probably yesterday more than today, Ron Paul...who was this Ron Paul and why did his name keep reappearing when I went back to my Yahoo home page...when I visited Technorati this morning, their homepage listed, sure enough..Ron Paul...on the blurb of tags...Ron Paul...Now..I'm not an everyday Politically minded Mom, woman, citizen...but I have a voice..many people will tell you that..this I assure you!! Have I been watching the Spouting of all of the Presidential Candidates for the 2008 election process...No!

I will typically wait till, oh, maybe March of the Election year...read what falls in front of me and catches my eye...and then eventually choose who I think best fits "the lesser of two evils". But this deluge of Ron Paul...I had no idea who the heck this person was...much less a Presidential Candidate..he could have been a Hairdresser for all I knew...the Proprietor of a "Get rich quick Book of the Year" conference group...I honestly had no clue...So...I turned to my typical method of finding things I need info on quickly...I "Googled" Ron Paul...

I didn't feel bad once I read that his Name Recognition, as early this year...was ranked right about where I would have ranked it...down at the bottom...unless you live in Houston, Texas or in Texas itself, you may not have known who Ron Paul was either...she sighs a sigh of some relief...

So, Ron Paul...he's a Representative from Texas...Republican of late...was born in Pennsylvania in 1935...graduated from High School and College, the son of a Dairy Farmer...went on to Med School and became an Ob/Gyn...he's been called a Conservative, a Libertarian and Constitutionalist, among other things...Wikipedia offered a bevy of material on this man...

He adheres to the Austrian School of Economics..which holds that "increasing the amount of money in circulation eventually leads to Economic Ruin"...makes sense to me...but I don't claim to be an Economist either...

He regularly votes against spending, taxes and Government Initiatives...He would abolish Individual Income Taxes, while achieving "Revenue Neutrality" by scaling back the Federal Budget seven years...ok...I'm sure he would have alot of followers on that note...He supports abolishing many of the larger Government Agencies, and says "Republicans have strayed from limited Government to Big Government" even though he recognizes himself as one...that was a head scratcher....His foreign policy is one of nonintervention which made him the ONLY Candidate in this Presidential election to have voted AGAINST the Iraq War...hmmmmm interesting...

He calls himself an unshakable foe on Abortion, favors State rights, Gun ownership, allowing voluntary School Prayer...he also favors allowing workers right to opt our of Social Security, he opposes the Draft, the Federal War on Drugs and Death penalties...

I guess I haven't been reading all that much on the Internet..and I don't claim to be a huge You Tube fan, because his Internet Presence has been measured by his Ranking as a Top Internet "Search" item by Technorati, Alexa and others...all that compare popularity in the blogosphere...He claims the most YouTube hits (4.4 million) and the most subscriptions of all Candidates, surpassing Barack Obama in May, 2007 !! Well, I guess I must have been asleep this Spring!! His YouTube channel is among the "Top 40" most subscribed of all time, claiming 32,000 subscribers in October of 2007 !! As I said...YouTube and I just haven't met yet...

So, there you have it in a Nutshell...well, my Nutshell anyway...the guy who I thought may as well have been pedaling a "Get rich on Ebay Auctioning off your Parents things from the Garage" E-zine...was , in fact, a Presidential Candidate..or still is...and it appears..I've just given him a little more "show"...yawnnnnnnnnn

So...there you have my take...well, my "findings" when I "Googled" a plain inquiry of "Ron Paul"...as she crumbles up her notebook paper and turns toward the garbage can and ...oh...damn..missed the hoop shot!!