After a recent posting here at Redstate, I started to notice how anti-Ron Paul people are here for the most part. Granted, the conversation did come up when discussing Palin, so that might have gotten some people hot. Really though, the GOP needs to wake up and grab this before it passes them by for a generation.

What I’ve been trying to scream from the roof-tops to people here and everywhere I go is that in this political climate of out of control spending, Ron Paul’s endorsement matters more than anyone else’s in 2010.

“Truther!” “Paul-Tard!” “Freak!” everyone exclaims with their pitchforks in hand, hoping to put the hunchbacked GOP’er back into the bell tower.

Here’s an article in a recent quasi-paper, but I want everyone to see this part in particular:

A funny thing has started happening to Paul since his long-shot presidential campaign ended quietly in the summer of 2008. More Republicans have started listening to him. There are the media requests from Fox Business Channel and talk radio, where he’s given airtime to inveigh on sound money and macroeconomics. There is HR 1207 , the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2009, a bill that would launch an audit of the Federal Reserve System, and which has attracted 112 co-sponsors. When Paul introduced the Federal Reserve Board Abolition Act just two years ago, no other members of Congress signed on.

And then there are the luncheons. The off-the-record talks have brought in speakers such as ex-CIA counterterrorism expert Michael Scheuer, libertarian investigative reporter James Bovard, iconoclastic terrorism scholar Robert Pape, and George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley. Perhaps the most influential guest has been Thomas Woods, a conservative scholar whose previous books include “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” and “Who Killed the Constitution?: The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush,” and whose current book “Meltdown” has inspired Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) to question Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner about economic fundamentals.

You can find the rest of the article here: Ron Paul’s Growing Influence Article

So please, if you feel the rage building in your ulcer, send it to the right people here: HATEMAIL

Also, let me be clear on one critical point. Blowback Theory is not an appropriate foreign policy long term, though a massively reduced footprint in Europe and the Middle East might not be a bad idea.

Palin/Paul? Ha, ha! Now that would start a conversation…