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Yesterday, I did a live blog of Dr. Paul’s speech to CPAC. Doug at Below The Beltway has video from the speech on his site, and I thank him for alerting me to the video.

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Dr. Ron Paul is currently speaking to a packed house at CPAC. For those of you who are curious, I am a Ron Paul fan and yes, I came a little late in my support of his philosophies, etc. Here’s some quotes from the live blog of Dr. Paul’s speech:

“I thought we were supposed to get rid of the Department of Education. A Conservative has to willing to stand by and defend the Constitution. A good conservative will start talking about how we should get rid of the Federal Reserve system (AMEN!!) and the rule of law is very important.”

“I would like to remove the 16th Amendment of the Constitution. We need to get back to smaller, limited government and more individual liberty.”

“That financial system has come unglued. Conservatives, as believers in limited government, we need to be aware of the encroachments on liberty. We should be focused on preserving liberty. We have forgotten what our founding fathers have envisioned.”

“We have a foreign policy that was built on fallacies. The Conservatives had a different understanding about foreign policy, and we should not listen to the U.N., W.T.O., and the World Bank. They threaten our sovereignty. You can’t police the world. We received more donations from the military.”

“We need to eliminate the welfare state. The job that we have is to present this case that we are humanitarians, not the liberals. Everything is not for free, and if you care about your fellow man and prosperity, you need to educate those that freedom is an individual liberty, not a right.”

“You cannot have a fiat system. We need to have honest money and that gold and silver should be legal tender. We are closer to a fascist system, where the government has control of our lives and our property.”

“The Freedom of Speech allows you to write controversial things. We need freedom of choice with economic rights. You can’t go to the government begging, pleading and demanding.”

“We, the People Act has been introduced in Congress to protect the sanctity of life. We need to legalize competition and we need to audit the Federal Reserve to see what they’re doing.”

Ron Paul truly represented HOPE for America, and it is a shame that the Republican party did not realize this in 2008.