The Exceptional Candidate
I will actually vote for Ron Paul. This man is saying things that no other politician has the philosophical basis, nerve, or intellectual honesty to even hint at on a national stage.
Paul gets it. He realizes that we shouldn’t have digressed in to a country where politicians tell us what we can and cannot put in our bodies, how much we should be able to keep of the money we earn, how much business owners should pay their employees, or that we should have to ask permission to exercise our right to protect our own lives. He consistently cites individual rights, freedom and the founding documents of our once great nation. He conveys no altruistic mandates, no “rights” which are really privileges, nor any compulsory sacrifice of individuals to other individuals or the state.
Honestly, he’s consistent enough across the board on reducing the size and scope of government that I would gladly overlook his questionable stance on abortion for the monumental shift in the right direction his ideals would bring. Admittedly, this is an easier trade off for a male.
He may not be perfect, but he’s so much more free-market minded and individualistic that I wouldn’t think twice about giving him my vote.
There are no others that I’d even get off the couch for.
Pulling the lever for someone who’s stances I agree with ~98% of is something I can do in good conscience. The rest of the field (pathetic, pandering weasels that they are) may have stances that I agree with ~5% of (mostly not in principle, just in end-result.)
Great video from a Google Candidate series.
Other great videos here with another intellectually honest individual, John Stossel.
