Confident and secure with his ideas, we watch Paul maneuver, spin and speechify with the best and worst of them, always a quiet eye in the political storm. By contrast with the snake oil salesmen of the political establishment who sold their recycled wares to Middle America, Paul came off as the safe port in the political storm.

 

A significant portion of Paul’s dedicated and mushrooming base was because of his fierce opposition to the Iraq war. He alone among the Republican club of warhawk presidential candidates called a war is a war early on -- that the war was an anti-Constitutional betrayal of America's interests -- and thereby stood out from the snarling pack. Hence Paul was able to draw visceral antiwar support from both sides of the blurred ideological divide. He inspired millions regardless of party affiliation, who believe in conditionally supporting their country all the time and their government only when it deserves it.

 

When Paul’s campaign coffers swelled above and beyond his debate mates, the knives started to come out. This is how politics in the US currently works, and it’s not a pretty sight. It has very little to do with democracy of the kind we might romanticize about and is idealized in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. What we really have is an oligarchy wrapped up in the trappings of democracy. To the utter fury of the Republican organizers there was an intrusion of rational thought, in the person of Ron Paul, a US congressman from Texas they deemed a rank outsider.

Despite their snarling glances, Paul blew the lid off the WMD deception, the 9/11 blame game and the danger America faces as a result of the “greatest military blunder in American history,” the true character of  his opponents and the absolute lie of their war on terror were laid bare for all to see.

And, rest assured, For Liberty is not about tired, old, right-versus-left political bickering and backstabbing. No, it’s about right vs. wrong, according to time-honored American values and the fundamental principals that 99% of us chose to live and abide by. Paul sees government as a clenched fist protecting corporate interests, maintaining economic hegemony through military might abroad while greasing the wheels for privileged elites to make money off the working majority at home.

With murmurings of another Ron Paul Presidential run in 2012, For Liberty may be more important than ever.