From Wikipedia, Ronald Ernest Paul Ronald Ernest "Ron" Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a Republican United States Congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a physician, and a 2008 U.S. presidential candidate. He has represented Texas's 14th Congressional district (1997–present) and its 22nd district (1976–1977 and 1979–1985) in the U.S. House of Representatives. Paul placed a distant third in the 1988 presidential election, running as the Libertarian nominee while remaining a registered Republican. After his 1961 graduation from Duke University School of Medicine and a residency in obstetrics and gynecology, he became an U.S. Air Force flight surgeon, serving outside the Vietnam War zone. http://myspace.com/stevensvideotv http://www.startyourownjob.tv http://www.stevenlending.com Steven Barchetti Ronald Ernest Paul During his 2008 presidential campaign, Paul places in the top tier in Republican straw polls and fundraising, but commands significantly lower support in landline polls of likely Republican voters, which have different selection criteria. He has generated strong Internet support and is the top presidential candidate Internet search term as measured by Hitwise, Alexa Internet, and Technorati; he has several times more YouTube subscribers than any other presidential candidate. Ronald Ernest Paul Early Congressional career During his early days, Paul was influenced strongly by reading Friedrich Hayek’s Road to Serfdom, which led him to devour the works of Ayn Rand and Ludwig von Mises. He came to know economists Hans Sennholz and Murray Rothbard well and credits to them his fascination with the study of economy. On August 15, 1971, when President Richard Nixon closed the "gold window" by implementing the U.S. dollar's complete departure from the gold standard, Paul suddenly concluded that everything he read in these Austrian school economists had been coming true.[27] That same day, the young physician decided to enter politics, saying later, "After that day, all money would be political money rather than money of real value. I was astounded."[31] Ronald Ernest Paul Campaigns