To the point: Vote for Ron Paul!!! I myself (and my sister, and many other people I know) am registering Republican just to vote for him in the primaries. He is a nine term congressman from Texas, running for President in the Republican party. He basically takes a very literal reading of the constitution and sticks to it, no matter what. Which is remarkable. They call him "Dr. No", since he votes no on almost everything and he is, I believe, the only MD in Congress (ob/gyn).
He has been against the war from the beginning, not wavering in his opposition once. He voted no on the so called "Patriot Act", twice (both times it came up, he's not stuffing the ballot!). He votes against taxes, foreign aid, big business subsidies, welfare, the UN, gun control, and giving medals out to noble people at taxpayer expense, though he will offer his OWN person money instead.
I haven't officially endorsed Paul's run yet, as it almost seemed too obvious. He is the only politician I ever have actually given money to (and I will again). He is ALL over the nets, do a search on him on any of the major sites to find a simply embarrasing amount of media and blog coverage, though the MSM is trying hard to ignore him, hoping he will just go away.
It's almost dizying to have a the politician I support getting actual press and even some respect. He has stood his ground, even in the face of ridiculous acusations and mischaracterizations of his positions. I know he is highly unlikely to win, but maybe he can at least change the way people talk about politics in this country.
Read up on him in the Wikipedia. I like how he says being pro-life falls out of being a libertarian (In my opinion it does ie not harming anyone including the unborn). Although he says that he wants individual states to be able to decide their abortion law for themselves, which I'm not so keen on. I guess campaigning on a platform on outlawing abortion nationwide would be tantamount to political suicide. However, he says he wants to strike down Roe vs Wade to facilitate that end and because it's unconstitutional, so maybe eventual total outlawing is somewhere in his mind. Methinks I would vote for him if I were in the US.
I really like constitutions, we could do with one here. There are NO restraining powers on what the UK parliment can vote through if they so choose. It has been variously said that the UK is not a democracy at all but an Oligarchy or an Elective dictatorship. I think there is a good deal of truth in both statements.
Posted by: AbrasiveScotsman | May 25, 2007 at 03:50 AM