Ron Paul Brings Libertarian Message To Nevada
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Posted: 4:25 PM Dec 13, 2007
Ron Paul Brings Libertarian Message To Nevada
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul questioned the need for mandatory seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws, and the Food and Drug Administration in a speech Thursday to anti-aging doctors.
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Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul questioned the need for mandatory seat belt and motorcycle helmet laws, and the Food and Drug Administration in a speech Thursday to anti-aging doctors.

The Texas congressman, who preaches strict adherence to the U.S.
Constitution, said each was the result of excessive government intervention and regulation that restricts Americans' freedom of choice.

Paul said wearing a seat belt or a motorcycle helmet "may well be good advice" but should not be mandatory.

"Once the government gets control of paying the hospital bills, then they want to control our lives," he said.

The federal government's regulation of health care and drug safety allows the pharmaceutical industry's lobbyists to have outsized influence, Paul said.

"There's a revolving door between FDA and the drug industry," he said. "If we truly believed in free markets and truly understood the Constitution, quite frankly, I don't believe we would even have an FDA."

The comment won loud applause from the group gathered at The Venetian hotel-casino for the 15th Annual Congress of on Anti-aging
Medicine and Regenerative Biomedical Technologies.

Paul is a long shot for the Republican nomination but has found significant support, with help from the Internet, for his anti-war, anti-Washington message.

The platform has particular resonance in Nevada, a state with a strong libertarian tradition.

Nevada will be among the first states to caucus, but it has received little attention from GOP candidates.

Paul is running radio ads in the state, and has drawn larger crowds than any other Republican contender.

Paul was scheduled to campaign at a private school in nearby Henderson later Thursday.


Latest Comments

Posted by: Reaye Location: Boston, MA on Dec 17, 2007 at 03:44 PM

I am so tired of hearing "long-shot" -- he is winning every straw poll and raising more money than anyone else. The people who tote "long shot" will be eating those words.
Posted by: Kay Location: Reno on Dec 14, 2007 at 07:53 PM

I knew of Ron Paul back in his days in Lake Jackson, Texas as a physician back in the 1970-80's, and the strength of his convictions hasn't changed through the years. Anyone with half a brain can look at how government control has increased over the past three generations, and come to the conclusion that a voice crying out in the wilderness against increasing government intrusion is a voice of sanity.
Posted by: plubius_reborn Location: a;abama on Dec 13, 2007 at 10:46 PM

ok, you put in the one required phrase, long shot, now the comments can focus on how ron paul is right
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