Sandy, since I was already asked in this thread I'll just give a copy of my answer.
"ARMCX1, to answer your question: "Is your vote for Paul one of principle, protest or do you agree with most or all of Ron Paul's agenda? I admire Paul's political honesty but I think he's unelectable when his policies are scrutinized."
For several years now I have believed that our gov't has become too unwieldy and branched off into too many different directions. I have felt that we really need to scrap a lot of things and go back to the beginning. We need to rebuild it and make changes only through amendments. The last few years the constitution has been pretty much ignored unless someone wants to use it as ammunition for something.
We need a do-over. People have complained that RP is too old fashioned and not up with the times but if you are on the wrong path you won't get where you want to go by staying on it. Sometimes you have to go back to your starting point and take a new path. GWB was quoted as saying the constitution was nothing more than a gd piece of paper.
Ron Paul is rare in that he is not only very intelligent, he's honest. That's pretty rare these days. While I do not agree with everything in RP's agenda, he is making people think and deal with some logic. The press likes to call him unelectable because they don't want him as he would cost a lot of people a lot of money if his policies were accepted and they do that to scare people off. Here's the thing though. He's educating a whole new wave of future politicians and the public as well. The more votes he gets, the better able he is to do that. That's much more important than whether he actually gets elected or not."
As to what seems really radical about his policies isn't as much as you would think. For one thing he advocates transition on things that people have come to depend on so that they are not hurt in any way. As for the other things, he does believe that they would all get addressed closer to a local level where so much money wouldn't be wasted on the bureaucracy that keeps the things from actually working. For instance the dept. of education. We've thrown more and more money at it yet the education in this country is worse than it used to be. It's too unwieldy.
If you follow him a bit you will see that whenever given a chance he will completely explain his positions. They make a lot more sense once he tells it instead of the spin the media puts on them.
