Ron Paul... I actually wrote his name in during the last election. If ever there were a candidate who feels we should follow the letter of the Constitution, it's Ron Paul. Again, he doesn't have a chance.
Hi Wee,
Your willingness to write him in is to be applauded. However, concerning your assertion that he doesn't have a chance, here is why you rightfully feel this way along with the rest of us. Can it be overcome? Don't know. One would think that things had become transparent enough and the economic destruction so complete that he "should" be a shoe-in. He was by far the front runner the last time around yet just didn't seem to be able to capitalize on it. Below will explain why. One must remember that neither party wants him.
Thanks for posting that info! And I agree completely that neither party wants him. And WHY???? Because he's not in the pocket of liberal left wingers or conservative big business interests. He's strictly a Constitutional "cash and carry" kind of guy. And neither party wants him because of that very reason. He owes no one favors. He's not courting special interest groups. He simply uses the Constitution as a guideline for government, and that is something neither party does any longer.
Even Fox news, the conservative stronghold, seems to ignore him, or if they do mention him it's never in a favorable light. They don't really degrade him, but they treat him like someone's mentally deranged brother that people like to keep in the basement, and are embarrassed when he climbs up the stairs and begins talking to the neighbors.
If everyone who voted had enough brains to really listen to what he's saying and elect him, things would really change in this country. What saddens me is that his age, (and he LOOKS his age), is going against him as well. And some people will look at him next to Romney, who seems full of vigor and has the advantage of fewer years, and want this guy to lead them.
Fox News seems to be backing Bachman. Maybe that's just my take on it, but she's interviewed more than any other candidate on their news programs, and so far her entire platform seems to be based on two things: "Get Obama out of the White House and repeal Obamacare." I don't hear a single concrete thing from her. Truthfully, she's beginning to remind me of Nancy Pelosi! (UGH)!
The United States is so far removed from it's constitutional beginnings as to be laughable. And it seems to me that Ron Paul is the only person who actually recognizes this and wants us to get back to a lawful form of government.
The media hypes up the threat of a nuclear Iran, and only Ron Paul sees that little nation for what it is. And if they want to blow Israel off the map, that's Israel's problem and shouldn't be ours. Yes, we need to support out allies, but my feeling has always been that if we had NOT been such staunch allies of Israel we would have never become the target of Muslim extremists. They hate us because we support Israel.
And the other thing which bothers me about the national debt is that we hear ONLY about cuts to Medicare and Social Security. There is so much fraud in government, so much waste, and payouts to different agencies which do exactly the same thing. There are probably thousands and thousands of goverment workers milking the public teat and not doing a thing. If the government would simply "clean house" and get rid of all the useless staff, we'd save billions in salaries, health insurance, and retirement payouts to them. And they need to simply stop replacing government workers who retire! Perhaps that will mean that a few more people will have to do a little extra work. Well, they should be thrilled they even have a job in this economy, and do it willingly in order to stay employed.
I am also getting sick and tired of the Tea Party being so maligned by the liberal press. The members of the Tea Party are AMERICANS! Yet they are treated with the same disrespect as people like Bobby Seale, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden and the rest of the "Chicago Eight" who were on trial after the tumultuous 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. Members of the Tea Party are not terrorists, rioters, or anarchists. They are simply americans who are fed up with the corruption and malfeasance in our capital and want our legislators accountable to the people of this country.
Geeze.... I have to get to bed.
