Ron Paul is about to Surge to the top of the Polls!

If you scroll down on this blog, you will see that I predicted Herman Cain to be the next president back on September 25th when he was polling about 2% nationally. Now he is polling at about 25% and beating Obama in head to head matchups. How did I know? Because I know what resonates with the American people. It's no secret that I have been a big Ron Paul supporter since I first became aware of his message in 2007. Ever since I learned about him and his vision for America, it has basically been Ron Paul or anybody else. (Herman Cain is somewhere in-between).

I've been very critical of Paul this election cycle because he has been unable to clearly articulate his message. I see all the other candidates taking bits and pieces of Paul policies, and watching people go nuts for them. A big part of Cain’s 9-9-9 plan can be traced back to Paul ideologies. Americans are so sick of 'budget cuts' just being some accounting techniques as part of an unenforceable plan that will bring our national debt from 27 trillion to 25.6 trillion in ten years, and then having the politicians act like it was some sort of miracle among men and they saved the country. I know Ron Paul's message is right, and I've been so frustrated with the fact that he’s not being aggressive enough in making sure people understand. THAT CHANGES TODAY!

The truth is, as a country, we are in HUGE trouble. HUGE. Like very, very soon our annual revenue won't even cover the interest on the debt that we have. Like did you know that even if every American were taxed at 100% of their income TODAY, the government would still run at a deficit because we spend so much. Trimming a little bit here and a little bit there is basically just rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. We're going down anyway and Leo isn't going to be there to comfort us.

But, have no fear, Ron Paul is here! Huge problems call for huge solutions. That is what Ron Paul laying out today. Remember that huge debt ceiling crisis we had a few months ago? All that was to try to save about 2 trillion dollars over the next 10 years, largely with a bunch of bullshit like, 'we will save 600 billion because we won't be fighting in Afghanistan anymore. That's like me saying I'm going to save 60 bucks a week by starting to smoke pot and then stopping.

How good is Ron Paul's plan? Even Rush Limbaugh, who hates Paul is endorsing it. His plan eliminates 1 trillion dollars over the next 3 years and the cuts are real. Here are some details.

1. No more aid to foreign counties.. EVER. We're fucking broke. Broke people don’t give to charity.

2. Military budget down to zero. We were never supposed to have a military budget. We have a DEFENSE budget. That budget is plenty to operate the Pentagon, and protect American interests. The military budget is specifically allocated to the destruction, rebuilding, and nation-creating that we do all over the world, on the tax payer’s dime, with no benefit to the tax payer.

3. Freeze spending back to 2006 levels for all federal departments. It was enough to run the country then, it's enough to run the country now.

4. Cut EPA by 30%.

5. Cut FDA by 40%

6. Turn Medicaid, food stamps, family support, and children nutrition programs turned over to the states where the Constitution wanted them. Traditionally, states operate these programs much more effectively and financially efficent than the feds. 

7. Cut Presidents pay to $40,000.  That is the median pay for the average American.

8. Cut the government workforce by 10%.  I've been around government offices enough to know that any 9 people can do the job of 10. 

These are all things that resonate with everyone. The problem is making sure everyone hears and understands them. That is where the Ron Paul campaign is about to hit the Republican field with some real body blows. Paul is going to lay out this entire plan, which I'm sure will also come with massive tax cuts for EVERYONE, tonight at 6PM on YouTube. He is all over the news all afternoon to raise interest in his plan. Tonight’s big debate from Nevada is at 8PM. The debates have been doing a great job of staying current, so I assume the Paul plan will get a lot of exposure today. Then, tomorrow, Ron Paul is going to break his own record for most successful single day fundraiser which I think will approach or exceed 7 million dollars which his grassroots organizers have been pushing for weeks. Paul now is the first candidate with over 100,000 individual donors to tap into. That will get him another day of headlines tomorrow, and the media will interpret the successful fundraising day as a public outcry of support of his trillion dollar plan. (We need to think of a catchy name like 9-9-9.) This will give the plan a chance to resonate with America, and hopefully, if people are like me, they will see that his policies make perfect sense, take us back to the fundamentals of limited government that we were supposed to be on, and give control and MONEY back to the people. I think Rush explains perfectly:

Rush concluded:

What this indicates is something, folks, that we have got to face, if we are serious about this. Fooling around the margins isn’t going to get it done. A 2% tax cut here, or a 3% tax variation over there is not going to fix what’s wrong. Genuine, big spending cuts are the only thing that is going to bring us back …

Limbaugh then said something interesting: that Paul’s ideas were just conventionally conservative ideas. Explained Rush:

Now, these are not really Ron Paul’s ideas. On this program I myself have suggested freezing spending at 2008 levels. Let’s freeze spending back to Clinton’s years. Paul is stealing that idea. Cutting the EPA? We’ve long been an advocate of this … eliminating whole bureaucracies. But nobody on our side has ever seriously proposed this and Ron Paul is going to.

He finished: "We have called for everything that Paul is suggesting. He will be the first candidate to actually do so."

Grudge Report Predictions:

Ron Paul will raise at least 6 million dollars tomorrow on 10/19.

Ron Paul will be the lead story on every cable news channel the night of 10/19.

Ron Paul will be polling over 15% nationally by 9/15/11.

Ron Paul will stay in the top 3 through the remainder of the campaign along with Romney and Cain.

Ron Paul will win the Iowa caucus.

How Hard is Hank Williams Jr. Getting F'd in the A Right Now?

A bunch of people have come up to me in the past couple of days saying, 'Did you hear about Hank Williams Jr comparing Obama to Hitler?' That seems to be the prevailing thought on what happened, even leading to his firing from ESPN Monday Night Football. My problem with this?  He didn't even come remotely close to comparing Obama to Hitler, and the fact that the liberal media (and Fox News shame on them) is reporting that as the story is so ridiculous to me.  The only thing more embarrassing is that the American public is buying it hook line and sinker, even though I literally don't know how.  I just googled, 'Hank Williams Jr. Compares Obama to Hitler' and about 1,000,000 pages came up, with our buddies at the Huffington Post right near the top.  Are we so stupid that just because he said the words Obama and Hitler in the same sentence we assume it was bad and overreact immediately?  Of course we do, because that's the new American way.  I would love to see ESPN explain how what he said was politically incorrect even for the most PC of people.

I actually watched this live and thought it was a great line and a great point.  If you watch the interview, Hank is basically just being a difficult dick the entire interview and the hosts are rightfully annoyed by him.  He just sits there giving 1 word answers with his arms crossed like he owns the place and they have to pull every word out of him.  When they start talking about politics it's obvious that he doesn't really have any faith in anyone or the system because nothing ever changes.  Then he brings up a point that I have always agreed with, but no one really has the balls to say it.  He referenced the famous Boehner/Obama golf round which occurred during the harshest point of negotiations during the debt ceiling increase a few months ago.

His point was basically, 'How can we as the American public have any faith in the politicians to get anything done when one second they are giving speeches to the country about how the other party is destroying American and shitting on the poor to help the rich and punishing the rich for success and blah blah blah and basically hating each other, but then go have beers and laughs over a golf game while the rest of the country goes down the toilet?'  His point is basically, 'if you really hate each other, don't play golf, and if you really like each other stop putting on this theater act where you pretend to hate each other.  Cut the shit.'

To illustrate this point, he uses a pretty awesome analogy that fits perfectly.  Referring to the Democrats and Republicans playing golf with each other he says, 'That's like Hitler playing golf with Benjamin Netanyahu!(the prime minister of Israel).'  In NO WAY AT ALL, does he compare Obama to Hitler.  The hosts act terrified and the one guy is like, 'Well, I don't really understand the analogy.'  How do you not?  It's obvious he is just using a hypothetical example of two famous arch rivals.  He may as well have said, Varitek having a beer with A-Rod, or Bird hanging out with Magic during the playoffs, or Biggy and Tupac uniting for a fun afternoon of drive byes.  Oh well, guy said Obama and Hitler in the same sentence so lets alienate him for the rest of his life and take away his ability to earn a living.  Great job America.  Way to stand up for common sense.