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As recently as two years ago, Congressman Ron Paul introduced a bill to audit the Federal Reserve Bank, who were heading to oblivion. Year after year - from 1983 - the bill has never even won a committee hearing. Paul has been ignored in Washington and has been a lonely voice for freedom back in his congressional district of Texas.

Times have changed. Ron Paul is on a roll policy. Bill Dr. Paul introduced in the current Congress of the audit of the Federal Reserve (HR 1207) has more than 300 cosponsors - including all the Republicans in the House and more than 100 Democrats - and support House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank. Frank has promised a vote in committee, and he has a chance to better than average pass the House this year. End Dr. Paul's new book, the Fed has sailed in the top twenty sales figures from Amazon.com over a month before it is available. He made his debut on both Amazon.com and New York Times bestseller lists, and sales remain strong even today. His presidential campaign was rocked by an old campaign for freedom "that has raised over 4 million dollars since its inception in February of this year.

More importantly, his presidential campaign obviously inspired dozens of candidates for the office of Congress across the country seeking to reform the Congress in a constitutional perspective. And many of them both well funded and taken seriously by the political establishment.

Paul Rand
Rand PaulPrime among these constitutionalist "Ron Paul" candidate is the third child of Congress, Dr. Paul Rand. While the elder Dr. Paul was an obstetrician by trade before being elected to Congress, Dr. Paul Rand is a surgeon eye (ophthalmologist). The 46-year Paul Rand announced his candidacy for the Senate seat in Kentucky U.S. Open in August. A few days before the announcement Dr. Paul Republican incumbent Jim Bunning bowed out a contest for reelection after the establishment of Kentucky Republican Senator Mitch McConnell (who is also minority leader of the Senate) has been collecting funds to Washington difficult for Bunning. "During the last year," Bunning said, "some Republican leaders in the Senate have done everything in their power to dry my fundraising. The simple fact is that I have not raised the funds necessary to conduct an effective campaign for U.S. Senate. "Time Magazine on July 29 said that" some leaders "Bunning talked about was his companion Kentucky Republican Mitch McConnell:" He quietly sign moneymen Republican need to wait for Bunning. The party leaders in Washington met with a potential adversary primary .... McConnell strategy finally worked. "

Dr. Rand Paul is the founder of the conservative United taxpayers Kentucky and has also campaigned for his father, then he is no stranger to politics. But he did not see McConnell open the floodgates of money Washington is his name. Politico.com noted that "the GOP establishment lined up behind the Secretary of State Trey Grayson." Perhaps Grayson was promoted through the establishment Republicans in Washington as the site of the Grayson campaign is devoid of the mention of bringing back the federal government within the United States Constitution. However, Paul Rand made the Constitution a centerpiece of his campaign. "The federal government must return to its powers enumerated in the Constitution and restore our inalienable rights "The young doctor Paul said on his campaign website, in an echo of his father's principles." America can not prosper, to preserve individual freedom, and repel threats to national security without infringing on the lives Personal of its citizens. "

The fact that the establishment is not behind him did not hurt Paul Rand in the crucial fundraising race, he noted.