Presidential candidate Ron Paul came to Branson last Friday to speak to a throng of supporters and delegates to the Missouri Republican State Convention.

 

While at the Tri-Lakes Center, Paul spoke on a variety of topics including foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and income taxes, but ultimately his message was about how freedom could remedy a multitude of sins.

 

“Freedom truly is popular. Freedom works,” Paul said. “There is no doubt in my mind that the message of liberty is what this country needs.”

 

His speech outlined the various values of freedom and what it could fix. Freedom from the federal reserve could help with the economic crisis. Paul envisioned a world with no paper money where “gold and silver would be the legal tender,” to which the enthusiastic crowd responded with chants of “No more debt!”

Oh Ron, you have some great conservative ideas but then you have some plain crazy ones. However, I feel like I would definitely prefer your “freedom” over Obama’s “hope” and “change.”