A new mailer from Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul landed in GOP mailboxes in Iowa today, highlighting the post-Thanksgiving rush to the caucuses. (The Register) In a new campaign mailer that arrived at Iowa homes today, Ron Paul shreds three rival GOP candidates’ past policy stances and tells voters that his “record of being right while others were wrong” sets him apart.
“Ask anyone in Congress or even anyone in this race. Whether or not they agree with everything I say, they will admit I stick to my principles and that I am despised by the Washington establishment for taking on both parties,” Paul says in the seven-page letter.
Paul, a congressman from Texas who has been campaigning aggressively in Iowa, says he’s the only candidate who predicted the current economic mess.
He slams rival GOP presidential candidates Herman Cain, Rick Perry and Mitt Romney, in that order.
Paul doesn’t mention Newt Gingrich by name. Recent polling in Iowa shows Gingrich, Cain, Romney and Paul clustered at the top. Perry is not in the top tier.
“In one of his opinion columns, Herman Cain referred to the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street banks as a ‘win-win for the taxpayer,’” Paul writes. “Rick Perry signed a letter with a Democrat urging Congress to pass TARP. Mitt Romney still defends his support for this massive bailout.”
All this is bad enough, Paul says, but there’s more.
“Massachusetts’ RomneyCare plan … has swamped Massachusetts in new costs.”
Paul continues: “Rick Perry raised taxes twice and has sunk my home state of Texas in mountains of new debt with his reckless spending.
“And Herman Cain still won’t come clean and admit that I’ve been right for years when I’ve said his beloved Federal Reserve was one of the main reasons for our economic troubles.”
Also in the mailer, Paul says he’s the only candidate who will fully balance the federal budget within three years, start paying down debt within one term and cut $1 trillion in federal spending in one year.
“I am the only lifelong fiscal conservative in this race for president with a record of fighting big government and a reputation for saying “No!” to the big spenders of both parties,” he says.
Paul’s mailer arrived in a thick manila envelope. It also contains a glossy, color copy of his 12-page executive summary of his “Plan to Restore America.”
www.ronpaul2012.com/the-i...-plan-to-restore-america/
