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So why do YOU like Ron Paul so much?

Name: Anonymous 2007-11-25 14:29

I truly want to know.  All bullshit, flaming, and racial slurs aside (which, I know, is impossible on 4chan), why do you (or anyone) like Ron Paul so much?  I just don't see what is so revolutionary about his campaign.  It seems he is sort of a Jeffersonian Republican... but if you know American history, you'd know that that didn't really work out so well.  His stance against the war is admirable, but not revolutionary.  A candidate like Gravel is far more appealing to me, with the National Initiative and his economic stance.

Name: Katherine 2007-12-01 12:08

The thing that I find appealing about Ron Paul is that he is so genuine. He doesn't have that slime-ball, too-heavily-invested-in-winning aura of Giuliani, or the too-much-testosterone, crazy blood-sucking femme-nazi approach of Hilary.
He practices what he preaches, and what he preaches (for the most part), I agree with. This means that he doesn't change his entire set of moral values with the wind like Giuliani does (when he first made his debut he was, allegedly, pro-choice, pro-gay rights, anti-war, and supporting free choice in all matters...just look at him now). This also means that he doesn't do one thing and say another, like Hilary (and most of the candidates, too be frank) does (i.e.: let's get out of this war!! *in five or ten years*).
He wants to strengthen the dollar, which has been inflating hopelessly for awhile now (a rate that has recently escalated to the degree that Japan, among several other countries, has abandoned the US dollar as a backing for its monetary system because it is no longer reliable). This is something we badly need.
He has many proposed solutions for our many problems, and the solutions actually make sense. They attack the root problems, rather than the symptoms.
He follows the Constitution to a tee, which is something no other candidate I have seen (with exception perhaps to Dennis Kucinich, who is also an excellent pick) has even begun to approach doing. This means that he wants the government to stay the hell out of our lives as much as possible, rather than coddling and enslaving us, as has been the trend.
He supports a once and for all end to the war in the middle east, and, furthermore, feels that we should try to avoid foreign entanglements as much as humanly possible. That means no more military bases built across the globe, which in turn means greater national security. No more empire building, which America has been engaging in for many years now. No more one-sided alliances, such as our strange pact with Israel, a large part of the reason we are in the middle east in the first place. Trade with your neighbors. Treat them with mutual respect. Stay the hell out of their affairs and expect them to stay the hell out of yours. The only time that war is appropriate is when war is brought to you (9/11 is hardly applicable in this instance since, if you read the facts, Iraq had nothing whatsoever to do with the attack).
There's a hell of a lot more, but this comment is getting rather lengthy, and I had hoped to be concise.

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