Ron Paul 2nd in Nevada Caucus right now!

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@kilmer420

I have heard Ron Paul speak a number of times on Air America, during a few debates, and in several other venues. So many people were calling in to say they supported him, that I was very curious to see what the man was about. He is definitely a Libertarian, which means basically that he wants government out of our lives almost totally. I say almost, because Libs very much believe in police forces and armies; that’s about it. They do not see our society in terms of a “social contract”, that we are all in this together and have to organize things to supply the basics necessaries to that achievement of happiness in which our Founding Fathers believed. Libertarians want to privatize the government exactly the way the Bush administration is doing. Libertarians see business/corporations as the way to achieve the dismantling of government, and it’s really interesting to hear someone like Ron Paul try to explain how this will happen without our (the middle/lower classes) being impoverished and gouged. Like so many people who call themselves Republicans, he wants to see everyone “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”—without answering the charge that the deck is pretty much stacked against the little guy when it comes to corporate business practices.

Thom Hartmann likes to say that Libs are Republicans who want to smoke pot and have free sex. I also would like to see those things, but other than that they’re fairly nuts. I can’t see how turning our country over to corporations has done us much good thus far…

I happen to find Ron Paul personable. He is, however, not our friend IMO, no matter how correct he is about Iraq or the Patriot Act. This is why there are people out there who think he the Republican answer to the Bush Admin. He isn’t, unfortunately. No Libertarian can be. Ron Paul is a Libertarian, even if he’s calling himself a Republican to try to get to the White House. Although, this is my current view on him, it may change over time, so far that’s how I see it.

You can jump my reply and call me a Dem all you want. Yeah, I have some of those views and some republican ones and I agree with what Ron Paul propagates in his campaign, but not everything. I haven’t made a decision on a candidate and just reading over many facts now to get myself prepared to vote over the next year.

You do realize I’m a Libertarian, right?