Vivek Ramaswamy’s vision is America first — even more than Trump By Miranda Devine

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 Vivek Ramaswamy’s vision is America first — even more than Trump
By Miranda Devine   
May 3, 2023 11:21pm

While Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are busy tearing chunks out of each other, there is an unlikely sleeper candidate in the Republican race who is quietly winning hearts and awakening hope across the country with his sunny version of America First.

Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, the woke-busting entrepreneur, son of Indian immigrants from Ohio and the GOP’s first millennial presidential candidate, is rising steadily in opinion polls, just 10 weeks after announcing his candidacy on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show.

In one CBS poll this week, he managed to tie with former VP Mike Pence in third place among likely Republican voters, ahead of establishment figures such as Nikki Haley, Chris Christie, Tim Scott and Asa Hutchinson.

He’s pitching himself as a more energetic but less divisive version of Trump, as “the outsider that doesn’t just talk about draining the swamp,” he said in New Hampshire this week. “I’m going to get the job done . . . I see an opportunity to do in 2020 what Ron­ald Reagan did in 1980, win a landslide election.”

He preaches that it is not enough merely to point out the hypocrisies of the left’s “secular religions” of “racial wokeism, gender ideology and the climate cult.”

These are just symptoms of a national identity crisis, he says, caused by turning away from the founding values of the country, from success by merit and adherence to the rule of law, values that wooed immigrants like his Indian engineer father and psychiatrist mother to Ohio.

“Faith, patriotism, hard work, family, these things have disappeared,” he says, and he wants to “fill that void with a vision of American national identity that dilutes this woke poison.”

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[libertybele]

Only problem is, very little is known about him or his past AND neither of his parents were born in the U.S.A, which should make him ineligible to run for president.

He reminds me of another Barrack Obama -- little known of his past and yet he become president.  Rams has no political experience and a very spotty past.  Obama's intent was to transform America and he's still working from the sidelines.

[Fishrrman]

bele wrote:
"Only problem is, very little is known about him or his past AND neither of his parents were born in the U.S.A, which should make him ineligible to run for president."

Do you have a source to back that claim up?
Ramaswamy has specifically claimed that both his parents were naturalized citizens at the time of his birth...

[libertybele]

bele wrote:
"Only problem is, very little is known about him or his past AND neither of his parents were born in the U.S.A, which should make him ineligible to run for president."

Do you have a source to back that claim up?
Ramaswamy has specifically claimed that both his parents were naturalized citizens at the time of his birth...

Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there. His parents emigrated from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India.

Naturalized??? Try finding a source that verifies that.

As I pointed out, his early years aren't well documented, nor are his parents.  Much like Obama.  Little is known about his earlier life and then we have numerous rumors that his is a Soros plant.

[Bigun]

bele wrote:
"Only problem is, very little is known about him or his past AND neither of his parents were born in the U.S.A, which should make him ineligible to run for president."

Do you have a source to back that claim up?
Ramaswamy has specifically claimed that both his parents were naturalized citizens at the time of his birth...

I sincerely hope that is true @Fishrrman but, to date, I have not been successful in documenting it.

[LMAO]

Well, he is saying the right things

I just wish there was some kind of legislative record to back it up

[libertybele]

New York Times bestselling author Vivek Ramaswamy makes the case from firsthand experience that the essence of true American identity is to pursue excellence unapologetically—no matter your skin color or where your parents came from.   Leaders have called Ramaswamy “the most compelling conservative voice in the country” and “one of the towering intellects in America,” and this book reveals why: he spares neither left nor right in this scathing indictment of the victimhood culture at the heart of America’s national decline. Following the success of his instant bestseller Woke Inc., Ramaswamy explains in his new book that we’re a nation of victims now. It’s one of the few things we still have left in common—across black victims, white victims, liberal victims, and conservative victims. Victims of each other, and ultimately, of ourselves.   This fearless, provocative book is for readers who dare to look in the mirror and question their most sacred assumptions about who we are and how we got here. Intricately tracing history from the fall of Rome to the rise of America, weaving Western philosophy with Eastern theology in ways that moved Jefferson and Adams centuries ago, this book describes the rise and the fall of the American experiment itself—and hopefully its reincarnation


https://premierecollectibles.com/victims

https://www.deccanherald.com/national/vivek-who-enters-us-president-fray-used-to-frequent-kerala-1194094.html

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/kerala/2023/feb/24/palakkad-roots-that-helped-shape-a-us-prez-hopeful-2550327.html

https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/vivek-ramaswamy

[libertybele]

The Soros connection perhaps through fellowships and Rams is affiliated with George P. Bush.

https://freopp.org/about

[libertybele]

Well, he is saying the right things

I just wish there was some kind of legislative record to back it up

You are right, there is no legislative record to back him up.  Little is known about his early years -- he received Fellowships from Soros and I've looked and cannot find any evidence that his parents were nationalized citizens.  A quote from his book mentions that is should not matter where your parents come from .... so ... you can form your own opinion.

Sorry, I just don't trust him just like I didn't trust Obama who appeared out of nowhere. Obama made it into the Senate and then had a legislative record, though many obviously didn't research it.

[Smokin Joe]

You are right, there is no legislative record to back him up.  Little is known about his early years -- he received Fellowships from Soros and I've looked and cannot find any evidence that his parents were nationalized citizens.  A quote from his book mentions that is should not matter where your parents come from .... so ... you can form your own opinion.

Sorry, I just don't trust him just like I didn't trust Obama who appeared out of nowhere. Obama made it into the Senate and then had a legislative record, though many obviously didn't research it.

Another thing that trips a warning flag and needs to be looked into: "biotech".

We've had enough damned biotech foisted on us to last a century.

So, what, exactly, sort of biotech is he wrapped up in?

[bigheadfred]

Another thing that trips a warning flag and needs to be looked into: "biotech".

We've had enough damned biotech foisted on us to last a century.

So, what, exactly, sort of biotech is he wrapped up in?

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[goatprairie]

I don't dislike Ramaswamy. I just don't see any particular reason to support his presidency. True, he's not as irritating as Trump....nobody is as irritating as Trump. I liked Ramaswamy's rhetorical slapping of that idiot Don Lemon. However, that is still not a great reason to vote for some candidate.
But anytime I hear some candidate vowing to drain the swamp, I get irritated.
Nobody is going to drain the swamp. Not Trump, Ramaswamy, nor anybody else. As long as you have a government, you're going to have a bureaucracy i.e. The Swamp.
Start talking about meat and potato issues, and stop with the "getting retribution" or "draining the swamp" malarkey.

[LMAO]

Nobody is going to drain the swamp. Not Trump, Ramaswamy, nor anybody else. As long as you have a government, you're going to have a bureaucracy i.e. The Swamp.
Start talking about meat and potato issues, and stop with the "getting retribution" or "draining the swamp" malarkey.

Nancy Pelosi made the same “Drain the Swamp” promise during the 2006 midterms.

The swamp got swampier, instead