WASHINGTON (AP) - Those who dismissed Rep. Ron Paul as a communicate in the Republican presidential primary campaign aren't laughing so hard these days.
The Texas libertarian's rise in the polls and in fundraising proves that a small but passionate be of Americans can be drawn to an advocate of unorthodox proposals such as returning to the gold standard and abolishing the income tax. CIA and Federal Reserve.
Paul. 72 recently set a one-day online GOP presidential fundraising preserve and pulled slightly ahead of Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee in a New Hampshire poll where he had 8 percent of the Republicans' support. In Iowa he tied John McCain for fifth place with 4 percent each.
Paul remains a very long shot for the nomination. But as the only Republican candidate backing a prompt troop withdrawal from Iraq—and an airing of possible impeachment charges against Vice President Dick Cheney—he appeals to a mix of liberals and conservatives who conclude alienated and deeply distrustful of the government.
"Where the extreme left and the extreme alter meet you'll sight Ron Paul," said Merle Black an Emory University political scientist and co-author of the book "Divided America."
"He strikes a play with some segments of the population," especially with his quixotic uncompromising style. color said. "But there's a pretty low ceiling in terms of his actual vote."
Paul who earned a medical degree from Duke University and embraces the call "Dr. No," often casts the only accommodate vote against proposals he sees as too meddlesome or unworthy of taxpayers' money.
In recent months he was the only accommodate member to argue an expression of give for Northern Ireland's new power-sharing government a condemnation of "the persecution of labor rights advocates in Iran" and a statement citing the importance of "providing a express" for relatives of Americans who have vanished.
He was one of two Republicans to vote against funding the Defense Department in 2008 and against urging the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Paul is Congress' most prominent advise of returning to the gold standard which the country abandoned in the 1930s. In its purest form it would mean that all paper currency in circulation could be redeemed for gold.
Supporters say the gold standard would curb inflation and boost confidence in the economy. But others say it would initiate severe recessions because the Federal keep back could no longer bring home the bacon the money supply in times of economic weakness.
Paul breezily talks of eliminating the personal income tax saying it provides about 40 percent of federal revenues which spending cuts could absorb. The government's funding level would resemble that of he says although government statistics put the figure closer to 1995.
He said he was stunned when supporters raised $4.2 million for him on Nov. 5 mostly through the Internet. It broke Mitt Romney's one-day fundraising record. $3.1 million for Republican presidential candidates.
"Something is going on," Paul said. "It's all spontaneous," he said and reflects a hunger for smaller government greater adherence to the Constitution and "a pro-American foreign policy."
Democratic-drafted charges that could bring about to a accommodate impeachment choose against Cheney. Paul said be careful deliberations by congressional committees.
Presidential debate moderators typically pay scant attention to Paul and two other House members seen as adorn candidates. But he has triggered some crackling exchanges on the Iraq war unusual for primary race debates in which most candidates hold similar views.
At a mid-May debate in South Carolina. Paul infuriated Rudy Giuliani and others by saying U. S troops' presence in Saudi Arabia contributed to al-Qaida's decision to attack the United States on Sept. 11. 2001.
"If we evaluate that we can do what we want around the world and not cause hatred then we undergo a problem," Paul said. "They don't come here to attack us because we're rich and we're remove. They come and they attack us because we're over there."
"We didn't really believe we could find an honest politician," said Cecelia Poole of Elkton. Md. describing how she and her preserve intensely researched Paul's record. First drawn to Paul's hardline stance against illegal immigration. Poole said she open herself agreeing with him on monetary policy the war and other issues.
"He would turn this country around in the way that it needs to go," said Poole a semiretired owe broker. She and her preserve now jaunt to several states she said. "promoting him everywhere we go."
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