Ron Paul finished second in New Hampshire with a perplexing 20+ percent of the vote. One must start to wonder what is in the minds of voters who vote for Paul and why seventy percent of U.S. troops are behind him. The only perceptible option is that he appears to be a libertarian. In theory, there is nothing overly dangerous about libertarianism in the right type of economic crisis, however, what libertarian voters, of whom are voting for Ron Paul, do not realize, is that Paul is not a libertarian. Ron Paul is technically a authoritarian, but he is portrayed as a logical conservative and a libertarian, of which apparently make him very likeable. Ron Paul is trying to put together libertarianism along with both social and political conservationism, and they just do not add up. Putting all of his views behind, what if Paul was a libertarian? Does this help are current economic crises? Cutting taxes would surely not help in our current situation, when we are already billions of dollars in debt. Of course, he would also be cutting the spending costs down by over a trillion dollars. Stopping all the wars is not necessarily bad, but it puts too much pressure on the president. I think Ron Paul would spend way too much time trying to stop other wars, and of course ending the prohibition of marijuana. Of course, his views on the federal government have never been done before, so no one can know exactly how they will work. Something like abolishing the federal government seems very crazy to me since I don't know how it would work.There is a chance that I could be wrong about Ron Paul and he could turn out to be a great president and prove me wrong.
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Assuming your results grid is accurate, what makes Ron Paul stand out is just how close he is to being a libertarian, as compared with all the other viable candidates. He's a statesman and an incumbent Congressman, so he's going to be an authoritarian to some degree. But I'll wager his classification as such is more due to the questions being asked.
All that said, why do so many of us like Ron Paul? Because he's the only candidate who represents a true change from the status quo, which is an amalgamation of corporate favoratism, taxes, increased federal power at the expense of the states and the individual, and a foreign policy that tries to police the world. Our current 2-party system offers candidates who perpetuate this system more or less. Ron Paul is the only candidate who can get us off this pathway.
THAT's why so many people favor him.
I can understand what your saying. Ron Paul would make a decent president in an economy that was more stable. I don't know if his tax cuts will be smart in our current economic crisis. I'm all for legal drugs and peace, I just don't think it's the smartest choice to have a constitutionalists at this current time when their are people like Rick Santourm and Newt Gingirch who can debate Obama and win and stabilize the country better. Also I think he is very negative and insulting. If you ask any of the other candidates about their fellow competitors they might say "I like him a lot he's a good man but I don't like this and this.." However, when you ask about let's say Michelle Bachman to Ron Paul he immediately starts criticizing them on, mostly, things he just made up. I don't remember exactly what he said someone along the lines of "she hates Muslims she want's them all dead" anything to make her look bad and him look good.
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