According to some news stuff I half-read at work today, Ron Paul has raised more money than any of his Republican contemporaries. The reasons for this are simple: Americans are tired of being the world's police (read: tyrants), tired of government-run businesses, tired of forced inflation, tired of war and tired of a political system that does not represent them. They want their country back. They want the constitution to be upheld by their elected leaders and they want someone they can trust running the whole show.
So why's Paul, who leads all Republicans in funding, one of the last in the polls?
I don't know. I don't know how these polls work and I don't know why Paul is so under-represented in the media. But I have a hunch:
I think it's 'cause no one thinks he can win.
That's the whole reason. That's why people don't want to vote for Ron Paul, that's why he's not getting enough media attention and that's why everyone is writing him off. He's not a traditional (read: full of shit) candidate. He doesn't have traditional (read: corporate) backing. And worse yet, he doesn't believe in the ideals of traditional politicians (socialism).
Ron Paul is, for all intents and purposes, the perfect candidate. He's the only one who believes in upholding the constitution, the only one who has been against the Iraq War from the beginning and he is the only one who believes that the government should not dictate monetary policy to the populous.
But when I tell people about him, when I tell them why I'm voting for him and why he's super awesome, the response I get is always along the lines of, “But he can't win.”
But I mean, why can't he win? If he's leading the Republicans in money raised, if he's getting more and more popular with each passing week, if he's got the strongest, most cost-efficient campaign, why can't he win?
In the words of my friend, Mellow, “‘Cause he's a freak, dude.”
I tell you, each day it gets harder to like my country.
Vote for Ron Paul. Vote Core.
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