Nathan Janes has announced the completion of his most recent painting, "Ron Paw Revolution." Ron Paul, a former candidate for the Republican party's 2008 presidential nomination, was Janes' inspiration for the painting. Janes says that he was moved to complete a painting that recognized Paul's campaign because it drew such widespread grassroots support. Paul's supporters were especially effective at using the internet as a tool for spreading the candidate's message and fundraising, setting a record for the most funds raised in one day at $6 million. Although Paul recently ended his campaign for the presidency, Janes felt it was important to document the growing movement of Americans looking for a presidential candidate who supports our commitment to freedom and resistance to oppression. Janes sees the popular political choices offered today as providing us no real choice at all. With all their talk of “change,” Janes says that both major political parties have neglected to challenge the status quo in any serious way.
Who is Ron PAW? Ron Paw is a canine of the constitution. The phrase "Ron Paw Revolution" was coined by the supporters. Paw has been described as conservative, constitutionalist, and libertarian. He is the leading advocate for freedom in our nation's capital. As a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Dr. Paw tirelessly works for limited constitutional government, low taxes, free markets, and a return to sound monetary policies. He is known among his congressional colleagues and his constituents for his consistent voting record. Dr. Paw never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. He advocates a foreign policy of nonintervention, having voted against actions such as the Iraq War Resolution, but in favor of force against terrorists in Afghanistan. He favors withdrawal from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the United Nations, citing the dangers of foreign entanglements to national sovereignty. Having pledged never to raise taxes, he has long advocated ending the federal income tax, scaling back government spending, abolishing most federal agencies, and removing military bases and troops from foreign soil; he favors hard money and opposes the Federal Reserve. He also opposes the Patriot Act, a North American Union, the Federal War on Drugs, No Child Left Behind, and Gun Control. Paw is strongly pro-life, and has introduced bills to negate Roe v. Wade, but affirms states' rights to regulate or ban abortion, rather than federal jurisdiction.
While Paw was a leading 2008 presidential candidate and won the most Republican straw polls, he saw substantially less support in landline opinion polls and in the actual primaries due to the media blackout. Strong internet grassroots support was indicated by his popularity as a web search term, his lead in YouTube subscriptions, and, on December 16th 2007, the largest one-day fundraiser in U.S. political history, netting over $6 million in 24 hours through an independently organized effort. Ron Paw also received more campaign contributions from the military than any other candidate. His book about his ongoing presidential run, The Revolution: A Manifesto, became a bestseller immediately upon release and went on to be #1 on the New York Times nonfiction best sellers list.
Ron Paw's Impressive Voting Record:
He has never voted to raise taxes.
He has never voted for an unbalanced budget.
He has never voted for a federal restriction on gun ownership.
He has never voted to raise congressional pay.
He has never taken a government-paid junket.
He has never voted to increase the power of the executive branch.
He voted against the Patriot Act.
He voted against regulating the Internet.
He voted against the Iraq war.
June, 2008
In case you haven't heard the news Ron Paul has ended his campaign for the presidency- but make no mistake, he has NOT ended his efforts to continue his campaign for liberty in this nation. Please go to Ron Paul's new website at www.CampaignForLiberty.com,
read his message and sign up to be a part of this monumental effort. It
is without question the most important step you can possibly take
towards restoring this great nation to the values and principles held
within our constitution. The Campaign for Liberty will lay the
groundwork for a different America, the kind of America you and I, and
millions of our fellow countrymen, want to inhabit. "Dr. Paul cured my
apathy," a popular campaign sign read. Others said our campaign cured
their cynicism. We have now reached a moment of great moral decision:
will we let ourselves retreat into apathy and cynicism once again, or
will we dig in for the long haul and fight all the harder? Will we
retire from the scene quietly, or will we give the establishment the
fight of its life? "In the final analysis," I wrote in my new book The
Revolution: A Manifesto, "the last line of defense in support of
freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the
people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from
underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders
their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of their dollar,
and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and
how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop
them." The time has come to act on these words.
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