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Ronald Ernest Paul (born August 20, 1935) is a 10th-term United States congressman from Lake Jackson, Texas, a member of the Republican Party, a pro-life physician, and a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election. He has represented Texas's 14th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1997 and represented Texas's 22nd district in 1976 and from 1979 to 1985. Paul also ran for president in the 1988 presidential election as the nominee for the Libertarian Party, while remaining a registered Republican. After graduation from the Duke University School of Medicine in 1961, and his residency in obstetrics/gynecology, he was drafted and served as a flight surgeon during the Vietnam War but did not participate in it because he was stationed elsewhere.[2]
Ron Paul has been referred to as a conservative,[3] a constitutionalist,[4] and a libertarian.[5] He supports free trade, sharply lower taxes, smaller government, states' rights, national sovereignty, and a non-interventionist foreign policy,[6] advocating a withdrawal from NATO and the United Nations. He voted against the USA PATRIOT Act, the Iraq War Resolution, and the Military Commissions Act of 2006. Paul supports reduced government spending, opposes the debt-based monetary system and seeks the gradual re-introduction of hard currency in the form of gold or silver. As congressman, he states that he has never voted to raise taxes or to approve an unbalanced budget.[7] He has called for the abolition of the Internal Revenue Service and the federal income tax.[8] Paul describes himself as "an unshakable foe of abortion"[9] and opposes capital punishment, stating that the individual States must be allowed to decide such issues in accordance with the 10th amendment.[10]
Over the course of his 2008 presidential campaign, Paul has become popular on the Internet,[11] being among the top Republican Internet search terms as measured by Hitwise,[12] Alexa
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