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Iowa caucus - why I hope Ron Paul triumphs

I'm wondering how the good people of Iowa will vote in the Presidential caucus?

It seems to me as if the Republican contest is a two-horse race between more-of-the-same-politicians and Ron Paul. 

The non-Ron candidates appear to have various ideas about what government needs to do to fix things.  Ron Paul seems to grasp that it is government that broke many things in the first place.

The non-Ron candidates seem to think that the way to fix the economy is with yet more of the failed monetary stimulus that created the bubble and bust.  Only Ron Paul seems to grasp that it is the system of government-run paper money that reduced the once-productive West to its current indebted status.

Let's hope that the folk in Iowa see things this way too.

According to many of the "experts" who report on the campaign, Ron Paul's bid is doomed to fail.  He lacks the big financial backers, claim those who do not seem to grasp that in America political campaigns are funded by tens of thousands of ordinary people making donations.  He lacks support in the mainstream media, claim mainstream media pundits - who consistently underestimate the power of this internet thingy. 

Even if they are right, didn't Barry Goldwater's run for the White House show that sometimes it turns out better in the long-run if you stick to your principles, however short term inconvenient? 

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