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| Ron Paul |
Paul, 76 and physician training, a purist constitutional party to minimize the size of government and non-expansionist foreign policy and return to the gold standard, abolish the income tax and market freedom.
In 1988 he ran for the presidency on the Libertarian Party and in 2008 tried unsuccessfully to obtain the Republican nomination. Immovable in their ideas, even in times of change, preached in the wilderness almost until some of his ideas began to be adopted by the Tea Party.
Thus, many see him as the spiritual father of the movement, which in fact chosen in late February, at a convention held in Phoenix (Arizona), as a favorite for the race for the White House.
The Tea Party advocates minimal state intervention and fiscal austerity, in line with the extreme ultra-liberals who defend individual freedoms and a state with few powers not meddle in the lives of citizens.
Paul is also an outspoken anti-war in Congress who voted against the Iraq war, and now warns that a possible military intervention in Iran to halt its nuclear program would be anything but beneficial for the U.S., partly because of the large deficit that pulls the country.
It is known, moreover, its proposal to abolish the Federal Reserve (the U.S. central bank), which he dismissed as "dishonest, immoral and unconstitutional."
In rejecting an amnesty immigration policy, advocates increased border control and calls for eliminating the right to citizenship by birth.
Ronald (Ron) Paul Ernest was born on August 20, 1935 in Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania.
He graduated in medicine from Duke University and married in 1957 with Carol Wells, who has five children and 18 grandchildren.
One son, Rand, belongs to the Tea Party is a senator from Kentucky since 2010.
In the 60 was flight surgeon in the Air Force and by the end of that decade he moved to Texas, where he practices as a specialist in obstetrics and gynecology, always under the mantle of his opposition to abortion.
Even now lives in Texas and is in that state where he has developed his political career that began in 1976 when he was first elected to a seat in the House of Representatives.
In 1977 he lost his seat, but a year later he won again and kept it until 1984 when, after failing in an attempt to enter the Senate, decided to take the medicine.
In 1996 he was elected again Texas congressman in the House of Representatives, where he remains today.
This "champion of the Constitution," as defined by your campaign website, never voted for a bill in the House unless it is "expressly authorized" by the Constitution.
Author of several books, including "A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce and Honest Friendship" (A Foreign Policy of Freedom: Peace, Commerce and True Friendship, 2007), "The Revolution: A Manifesto" (The Revolution: A Manifesto, 2008) and "End the Fed" (End Fed, Federal Reserve, 2009), Paul has been gaining strength in the polls in recent weeks.
In the "caucus" in Iowa, which opened on January 3 long Republican primary process, Paul will fight for the victory with the president of the House Newt Gingrich and former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, according to recent surveys.
However, we can pass the controversial bill in recent days by some old newsletters full of prejudice against blacks, Jews and homosexuals, supposedly written by him in the 80 and 90.
Although Paul denies having written some of the comments and said that others have been taken out of context, his opponents, especially Gingrich, have been asked to explain and clarify their positions.
It also plays against which, as noted by some analysts, the U.S. is not ready for a president with such radical ideas as your own.
