Former congressman Ron Paul is no stranger to controversy or headline-grabbing statements about America’s political process. The retired doctor and congressman from Texas has been very vocal in the elections today.
Speaking with Russia Today , Ron Paul called the midterm elections the “monopoly of a one party system” and says it’s all too evident that Americans have no real choices at the polls.
“The whole idea that a good candidate that’s rating well in the polls can’t get in the debate, that’s where the corruption really is.”
Ron Paul said that if anyone from a third party gets anywhere near making an impact, the major parties do everything they can to stop that from happening, often through questionable means. Although he is a long-time Republican, Ron Paul was once a headliner for the Libertarian Party, running as their presidential candidate in 1988. The 77-year-old Ron Paul has been quite vocal about what he sees as serious problems with his Republican Party.
Reason Magazine reported that Ron Paul also tweeted several digs at the Republicans, saying that Republican control of the Senate would mean “expanded neocon wars.” He also said that despite Republicans likely winning tonight, changes in Washington will be few and philosophies between the two parties remain identical.
Republican control of the Senate = expanded neocon wars in Syria and Iraq. Boots on the ground are coming!
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) November 5, 2014
Looks like big Republican win tonight. Power shift? Yes. Philosophy shift? No!
— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) November 5, 2014
Writing on his think tank site, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Dr. Ron Paul also gave the controversial opinion that more guns and less war means more security for the United States. He said that media-generated fear over “lone wolf terrorists” would enable gun control to move forward by making gun control “anti-terrorist” and a must for homeland security. He then went on to bash the current interventionist foreign policy as the real threat to Americans’ safety. He famously used a similar line to illustrate why the 9/11 attacks happened. When then-Mayor Rudy Giuliani of New York took offense, Paul followed it up with a press conference offering reading assignments to the presidential candidate, including books from the CIA and leading national security experts to prove his point to Giuliani.
Even with Ron Paul giving dire predictions for a Republican win in Tuesday’s midterm elections , though, the latest report from the Inquisitr , as of this writing, shows that the GOP is likely to win big in 2014. Several of the candidates from Ron Paul’s own Campaign for Liberty political action committee are among them, it appears.