Okay, so let's face the facts. Obama is a loser who didn't stand up for anything with any backbone. As Matt Damon correctly pointed out, Obama has no balls. For a country to elect a black man President, he would have been able to force through single-payer healthcare in the early days, using his political clout to do it. But he didn't, he played the perfect part of a generic politician and started setting up his favor list for re-election time. Fast forward to now, nothing much has changed, banks still need regulation that doesn't exist, and healthcare is a joke.
Enter Ron Paul. He talks intelligently about getting out of foreign wars, and values highly personal liberties. However he also values getting rid of regulation for almost everything, and allowing the liberties of gays, blacks, and any other minority left up to what are basically a bunch of backwards, racist states. "States rights" are great, except when they start intruding upon the freedoms of poeple like atheists (like me), or blacks, gays, mexicans, etc. Mostly, it's probably towards gays that this makes a bigger dent. His views on religion to say the least, are disturbing -- he still believes that the US is a "Christan nation".
While I agree with a lot of his non-interventionist policies, and his views on personal liberties and NDAA, I am squeamish about his thoughts on regulation (or lack thereof), the ability of the free market to do what is right, and I abhor the ideas he has on healthcare and things like abortion (which stem largely from his view on religion).
So where do I stand? Earlier, I made a post about not voting for a Democrat or Republican, just based on party guidelines as I don't intend to support either party as I think they are the downfall of the body politick in the US, however now I have to take it a step further and say, I don't intend to vote for a MORON. The problem with this is of course, that while every candidate may say some things I agree with from time to time, and and I look at Ron Paul as a candidate that might even follow through with what he says (as opposed to other candidates), I worry about the "stupid factor" that goes into running for this office and how we largely relegate the lowest common denominators to get into political office.
So long story short.... how come I can't vote for a candidate that isn't a liar, has balls, and isn't either crazy or an idiot? Do we really have these bottom barrell candidates in the US to choose from, and that's it? Ron Paul only seems great because the people that stand next to him are SUPER morons. It's like being the skinniest chick in a bunch of fatties. And honestly, I don't want to pick the least fat, or the least dumb. I want to pick somebody GOOD.
There's no answer for my question, I guess I'm just venting. But that's what Mondays are for
Enter Ron Paul. He talks intelligently about getting out of foreign wars, and values highly personal liberties. However he also values getting rid of regulation for almost everything, and allowing the liberties of gays, blacks, and any other minority left up to what are basically a bunch of backwards, racist states. "States rights" are great, except when they start intruding upon the freedoms of poeple like atheists (like me), or blacks, gays, mexicans, etc. Mostly, it's probably towards gays that this makes a bigger dent. His views on religion to say the least, are disturbing -- he still believes that the US is a "Christan nation".
While I agree with a lot of his non-interventionist policies, and his views on personal liberties and NDAA, I am squeamish about his thoughts on regulation (or lack thereof), the ability of the free market to do what is right, and I abhor the ideas he has on healthcare and things like abortion (which stem largely from his view on religion).
So where do I stand? Earlier, I made a post about not voting for a Democrat or Republican, just based on party guidelines as I don't intend to support either party as I think they are the downfall of the body politick in the US, however now I have to take it a step further and say, I don't intend to vote for a MORON. The problem with this is of course, that while every candidate may say some things I agree with from time to time, and and I look at Ron Paul as a candidate that might even follow through with what he says (as opposed to other candidates), I worry about the "stupid factor" that goes into running for this office and how we largely relegate the lowest common denominators to get into political office.
So long story short.... how come I can't vote for a candidate that isn't a liar, has balls, and isn't either crazy or an idiot? Do we really have these bottom barrell candidates in the US to choose from, and that's it? Ron Paul only seems great because the people that stand next to him are SUPER morons. It's like being the skinniest chick in a bunch of fatties. And honestly, I don't want to pick the least fat, or the least dumb. I want to pick somebody GOOD.
There's no answer for my question, I guess I'm just venting. But that's what Mondays are for
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