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End the Fed: Ron Paul on the Economic Crisis and the Federal Reserve (2009)
Paul argues that "in the post-meltdown world, it is irresponsible, ineffective, and ultimately useless to have a serious economic debate without considering and challenging the role of the...

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Ron Paul: Repeal, Dont Reform the IMF!
Repeal, Don #39;t Reform the IMF! by Ron Paul A responsible financial institution would not extend a new loan of between 17 and 40 billion dollars to a borrower already struggling to pay back...

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Rand Paul Announced 2016 Presidential Campaign | RYOT News
Ron Paul teased the announcement with a video released Sunday on YouTube titled "a different kind of republican leader." He #39;s expected to formally announce his candidacy on Tuesday. ***Subscribe.

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Rand Paul Announces Hes Running For President in 2016
Rand Paul Announces He #39;s Running For President in 2016. Son of Ron Paul, who Ran for President in 2008 and in 2012. *SUBSCRIBE* for more great videos daily and sound off in the comments...

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Rand Paul: #39;I am running for president #39;
Randal Howard "Rand" Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American physician and politician from Kentucky. In office since 2011, Paul currently serves in the United States Senate as a member of...

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Rand Paul 2016 Speech | Senator Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run (Running For US President 2016)
Rand Paul 2016 Speech - Senator Rand Paul Announces Running For U.S. President | FULL SPEECH | Senator Rand Paul Announces Presidential Run (Running For US President 2016) | FULL ...

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Chris Matthews Goes Nuclear on Ads Attacking Rand Paul
Watch "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer" Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET for an interview with Rand Paul. Washington (CNN)Rand Paul is facing a prospect that haunts every politician: missing his...

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I Stand with Rand...JKLOL
Do you support Rand Paul for president?! Is he different than his father, Ron Paul? Keep calm Rand-Bots, the president is just a puppet anyway. http://thinkprogress.org/election/2015/04/06/3643...

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TROY SENIK: Rand Paul must walk tightrope to White House

Buttons in support of the presidential candidacy of Sen. Rand Paul are shown at the Galt House Hotel in Louisville, Ky., where Paul spoke Tuesday.

WILLIAM DESHAZER, NEW YORK TIMES

What a difference a decade makes. In 2005, only the most obsessive political junkies knew the name of Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a somewhat eccentric figure who had been the Libertarian Partys presidential nominee in 1988.

His son Rand was even more obscure, known mainly to the clients of his ophthalmology practice in Bowling Green, Ky.

On Tuesday, that small-town eye doctor stood on a stage in Louisville and declared to the world that he intends to become the 45th president of the United States.

You cant fully grasp Rands rise to prominence unless you understand how dramatically the Republican Party has changed in the intervening decade. In 2005, George W. Bush, fresh off re-election, was seeing the last positive poll numbers of his presidency (he hit 50 percent approval in the Gallup poll for the final time in May 2005) and writers like The Weekly Standards Fred Barnes were touting the presidents penchant for big government conservatism. Under this theory, it was no big deal to increase federal spending or add a costly new entitlement, like the Medicare prescription drug benefit, as long as those liberal means were being directed toward conservative ends.

Then the bottom fell out. While the broader publics second-term distaste for Bush owed largely to the pre-surge sense of aimlessness in Iraq, the gut-wrenching images that accompanied Hurricane Katrina and the economic meltdown that occurred in the dying days of his administration, conservatives focused in on an entirely different critique: He never cared about limiting the size, scope or influence of government. Bush couldnt be an example of conservatisms failures, they told themselves, because he was never a conservative in the first place.

It was in that environment that the elder Paul first rose to sustained national prominence, launching a 2008 Republican presidential campaign that initially felt quixotic. With the likes of Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson and Mitt Romney jockeying for the nomination, who really cared about the starkly libertarian views of a doddering seventy-something obstetrician from Texas?

An awful lot of people, it turned out.

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TROY SENIK: Rand Paul must walk tightrope to White House

Former Texas Rep. Ron Paul was seen but not heard when his son, Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, formally announced his presidential campaign on Tuesday. But the elder Paul hasn't been shy about expressing his opinions on various - and controversial - topics.

In the past year, Ron Paul has written that a violent revolution should be considered to protect individual liberties, said the secession movement should encourage supporters of freedom, and asserted that the U.S. government is "likely hiding [the] truth" about the Malaysian flight believed to have been shot down by pro-Russian separatists over Ukraine.

Several likely 2016 candidates have familial relationships that will inevitably pop up as issues during the campaign. Jeb Bush has two former presidents in his immediate family, and Hillary Clinton is married to one. Paul's GOP rival Ted Cruz's father was never elected to office but has become a min-celebrity within the GOP for his fiery rhetoric.

But unlike pastor Rafael Cruz or President George H.W. Bush, libertarian icon Ron Paul is producing a weekly column along with frequent media and public appearances that present a potential problem for his son's presidential run.

"I have a great deal of respect for my dad, my dad is probably one of the most honest, genuine characters in American political history," Paul told Politico after his announcement. "We don't agree on everything, but not everyone agrees with their dad on everything."

But that relationship has shaped much of Rand Paul's political identity. He has embraced many of the small government ideals that his father espoused during his three presidential runs and decades in Congress, and Rand served as a strategist on his father's campaigns. But Ron Paul's continued opining about the issues of the day means he will be remain an arm's length away from his son for most of the campaign.

Here are some recent Ron Paul comments that may surface during Rand Paul's campaign.

Secession: Ron Paul wrote last year: "The growth of support for secession should cheer all supporters of freedom, as devolving power to smaller units of government is one of the best ways to guarantee peace, property, liberty."

And in a conference in February, Buzzfeed reported Paul said secession is "gonna happen. It's happening." He has said states seceding from the U.S. and local governments seceding from states will happen "de facto" when conditions break down after, he predicts, the economy collapses.

Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. arrives to announce the start of his presidential campaign in Louisville, Ky., on Tuesday. In the background, upper right, are his parents, former Texas Rep. Ron Paul and his wife, Carol.

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