Ron Paul
After thinking about going Clinton 1.5, doing the Barackaway, or going with my Senator John McCain, I've decided to forget all of them. It's funny actually, last year studying AP government, I read that a majority of kids going into college, somehow made them more liberal. Here I am, into the second semester, and I haven't read anything, heard anything, that specifically advocates liberalism. So why would I just go for a (drastic) reform candidate?
I think college kids become more liberal due to more knowledge about the system. As you learn about the Constitution, the founding fathers, and politics today, I think it's easy to see how bad things are right now. Of course every single candidate running now has some plan they propose for pulling out of Iraq, but Ron Paul is different. He is strongly against policing the world, and I agree. Up until WWII the U.S. had a strong isolationist policy. Now, isolationism doesn't mean we can't freely trade with other countries, that's just being economically stupid, but getting involved in world politics? Moronic. Why should we spend tax-payers money, on foreign problems, when there are far greater problem domestically? If you look back at my post about Naomi Wolf, Ron Paul's platform seems to be a breath of fresh air. It's the government's foreign policy that's creating this hostility toward our nation, as shown in this New York Times article.
If you take a look at this video, you'll find that Ron Paul doesn't base his campaign on defacing other candidates, yet he only focuses on his platform, which is the best thing anyone running for office can do.
