Ron Paul Talks to CJP in N.H.

By CJP | December 3, 2007

If the New Hampshire primary is to politics as Fashion Week is to style, then New Hampshire is the Milan of the political world. It’s small, charming and where every industry insider goes to do business. This weekend, CJP made a pilgrimage to the to the Granite State, including stops in Manchester, Concorde, Salem and Nashua. We talked to several Janes to get their take on the upcoming primary and caught up with Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul, who was kind enough to give us a few minutes.

Ron Paul is a 9-term Congressman from Texas and Duke-educated OB-GYN. He is the only Republican candidate in the field who voted against the 2002 Iraq War resolution and calls himself a libertarian Republican and strict constitutionalist. As libertarians sometimes are, Paul has been treated as something of a fringe curiosity by other campaigns and members of the media.

Despite that, he’s on track to raise $12 million this quarter and attracted a large and very supportive crowd at his stop at Salem High School in Salem, N.H. In his speech, he decried the overreach of the federal government, the illegality of the Iraq war and the danger of forced immunizations for children. During the Q&A session after his speech, one undecided voter praised Paul’s positions, but said he worried voting for Paul would be a wasted vote, like his vote for Ross Perot. Paul responded, “When you vote for the lesser of two evils, you’re still supporting evil.” Snaps, Ron Paul.

Following his speech, CJP asked Ron Paul how women’s everyday lives would be different if he were president.

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