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I’m Still Voting for Ron Paul and This is Why

Posted by Josh in May 22nd, 2008

I finally picked up a copy of Ron Paul’s book

and started reading it last night. It reminded me all over again of why I wanted to vote for him in the first place. His philosophy is simple and it rings truth with my core values. He nails the real the problems we face as a people in the preface to the book:

Today we are living in a fantasy world. Our entitlement programs are insolvent: in a couple decades they will face a short-fall amounting to tens of trillions of dollars. Meanwhile, the housing bubble is bursting and our dollar is collapsing. We are borrowing billions from China every day in order to prop up a bloated overseas presence that weakens our national defense and stirs up hostility against us. And all our political class can come up with is more of the same…with national bankruptcy looming, politicians from both parties continue to make multitrillion-dollar promises of “free” goods from the government, and hardly a soul wonders if we can still afford to have troops in–this is not a misprint–130 countries around the world. All of this is going to come to an end sooner or later, because financial reality is going to make itself felt in very uncomfortable ways. But instead of thinking about what this means for how we conduct our foreign and domestic affairs, our chattering classes seem incapable of speaking in anything but the empties platitudes, when they can be bothered to address serious issues at all.

This one section illustrates how truly different and refreshing Paul is as a Presidential candidate.

None of the arguments against him have ever moved me. He had white supremacists supporting his campaign. He also had black ultra-liberals supporting him. That is just a testament to how universal his message of individual liberty is. We should be free to live in a land where idiots of both sides believe what they want and live how they want just so long as what they do doesn’t harm another person or inflict damage on their property.

Paul is a pro-life supporter. The man delivered over 4,000 infants in his lifetime. You would think he would tend to side with them after a time. But beyond that, I’ve told you my feelings on this subject. I believe there are too many people in this world on the one hand and on the other that people should be allowed to life their lives as they see fit. I would never support my wife getting an abortion but that’s my wife’s and my choice. Far be it from me to inflict my worldview on someone else just because it’s mine and I think it’s right. So for those of you out there who think this abortion argument would ever deter me from voting for a candidate, you can wipe your ass with the fugging abortion issue. I’m talking about personal freedom here.

And so is Ron Paul.

And as for “The War” and the rumor of wars. I am still not to the point where I’m ashamed of myself for supporting the drive into Iraq although I can now admit to myself that I was duped, fed a line of bullshit about why the land of the free invaded another sovereign nation and I understand the reason has far more to do with the movie There Will Be Blood than it does with Independence Day. Our entire global culture rests on extracting the sun’s energy from carbonized fossils of long dead mammals and reptiles. But killing each other over it? Fighting ridiculous wars which stretch our resources and our moral conscience beyond the breaking point? That’s just stuck on stupid which it seems we’ve been for eight years.

And I help put George Bush in office twice. For the record, I’m sorry America. It was the wrong vote but one that felt right to my conscience at the time. I did the best I could at the time. This time I’m going to do better.

This time, I’m not voting for the best-looking turd in the bowl.

This time, I’m writing in Ron Paul when I vote. And as what remains of our once proud society finally weathers into dust as straggling waifs that were once human beings stalk and eat each other for food because their is no more gross domestic product; I’ll be able to sleep next to my semi-automatic hunting rifle that I use to ward off the packs of post-Armageddon blood cults seeking to cannibalize my family (think

The Road

stuck with me a little bit?).

Read Ron Paul’s book. I dare you to disagree.