For Ron and Rand Paul, Like Father, Like Son?

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By Nikki Schwab, Washington Whispers

Calling Ron Paul's supporters enthusiastic is an understatement. When the libertarian Republican lawmaker from Texas ran in the recent presidential election, his fans swarmed the Internet, created a "Hotties for Ron Paul" pinup calendar, and even got him a blimp. So it's no wonder that one of Paul's sons caught the politics bug as well. Rand Paul announced this week that he is entering the race to replace Sen. Jim Bunning, a Kentucky Republican who is retiring.

Ron Paul was on daddy duty when he heard his son's plans. "I said, 'Are you sure you want to do this? You want to give up a completely good medical practice to go into politics?' " Ron Paul tells Whispers. "Of course, I was kidding him because I didn't have any credibility on that argument," the congressman adds. Rand, a doctor like his dad, tells the story this way: "I guess his best advice was, 'Be careful. You could possibly win.' "

Rand is considered a long shot, most likely battling Kentucky Secretary of State Trey Grayson among others in the Republican primary and Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway, the Democratic favorite, in the general. "We're hoping that they will be quite overconfident and not think that we're a threat and we'll sneak up on them," says Rand. The "we" includes many of the online activists who helped his father: They've already scheduled a "money bomb" for Rand on August 20 in honor of Ron Paul's birthday. Money bombs—when supporters arranged a date for a mass donation online—were a hit during the elder Paul's presidential run. Rand is open to recycling other ideas, too. "We love the idea of the blimp," he tells us. "They can bring the blimp back, by all means."

Rand says nobody's son can win political office simply on a parent's fame. "I think I have enough of my own credibility," he says. And his dad agrees. "He's been involved with political things for a long time," says Ron Paul. "I think he's going to be a lot better than I am at it because I think he's more reasonable," the congressman says with a chuckle.

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1 acre of hemp can make more paper than 10 acres of trees & the 1 acre of hemp can grow in 1 year where the trees take 10-20 yrs. about the same difference in fiber used for clothing vs cotton only cotton grows as fast but it still takes much more.

i forget the exacts but it is something like 10 acres of hemp clean more c02 & creates more clean air than like 100 acres of anything else.

the first internal combustion engines were developed using hemp oil & hemp oil is MUCH better than any other biogas products used today. not to mention that along with that fact hemp while it is growing will clean more pollutants than it will when being used as fuel.

clothing & paper made from hemp lasts MUCH longer than what is used today. the paper made from hemp is archival quality.

NOBODY has EVER died from hemp use in the 12-15 thousand history of human use. 200,000 people die every year form FDA approved medicines. an average human would have to smoke 15,000 joints in 20 mins to get even a toxic dose.

up until the vietnam war the u.s. government has pushed hemp growing during war times.

the government LIED about every fact they used to brainwash the public against hemp & the whole time actual doctors & scientists were telling them they were wrong.

after using the fear that anyone who smoked it became killers to outlaw it the government used the exact opposite reasoning to maintain the outlaw during the cold war saying everyone would become lazy & happy so the russians would take us over.

actual quote from ronald regan "these pot smokers, they read books & talk about them" WTF???

the #1 crop at mount vernon & # 2 crop at montecillo was hemp.

at the time of the 1930 census there were like 20,000 hemp plantations in america. to be considered a plantation it had to be 2,000 acres plus.

while most religious groups are against it the bible clearly says "i give to you all of the seed bearing herbs & fruit bearing trees so they can be meat to man". now how can you stand with hemp laws & not be a HUGE hypocrite. after all "god is supposed to be all knowing & the marijuana plant predates man's ability to create & crossbreed plants.

i can keep going on & on while all of the bible pushers & sheeple can only quote lies.

jason of KY 10:55AM April 13, 2010

To you anti-marijuana people you are stupid if you think keeping marijuana illegal is stopping me from smoking it. I am going to smoke it when I want too. I am a 13 your old girl and I smoke marijuana just about every day and I can get it easier than I can alcohol. my mother and daddy has dried to stop me until they just gave up I would get it at school in the day time and if they grounded me at home in the summer time I just call some body and it would just show up at my window at night so what could they do about it they could not witch me 24/7 so I don't want see it be come legal till I become 21 keep up the good work. The people the I get it from off the streets do not care how old I am as long as that they make a sale I have sold it to kids as young as 10 or 11 I don't care as long as I make money to smoke it my self you can't stop me or any body when you have the teachers selling it up there in Lexington

Linda Brown of KY 11:30PM March 25, 2010

Both Paul's have a consistent platform of freedom across the board in economics - social issues - foreign policy. The R's and D's are hypocrites that are fascist just in different ways.

R's

How can conservatives claim limited government and support a blank check to US nation building and full unquestionable and blind support for the military industrial complex?

D's

How can democrats who champion the poor through welfare put blind faith in the iron fist of government while the invisible hand of capitalism (aka freedom) is the system that has brought more people out of poverty than any other economic system in the world?

Matt of OH 10:34PM August 19, 2009

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