No problem, we are free to disagree, so do I with you.
Ron Paul terrible, scary? To do away with income tax, large Gov, end spreading hatred world wide, and end the war, scary? .…disagree or not, he is the only candidate who is not mutli-faced. He doesn’t have a party because both parties continue to fail at any true change. Anybody should know that.

Sorry, Bennet, but I disagree. The pols care about soaking up votes — so they can keep their jobs (which actually pay peanuts, perks included, compared with the people who are paying the lobbyists to tell them what to do).

Why this works, I argue, is that the lobbyists have the best read on what We the People really want. Maximum bennies for minimum labor. Get me my stuff, and tax / extort someone else for it.

Ron Paul won’t make it to the Pres, and would make a terrible one if he did make it, because he has no party. Where are all the legislators who will support Paul’s policies? If We the People want what Paul has to offer (and he frankly scares me), we’d better identify those running for the House and Senate who are of like mind, and vote them in too. Otherwise Paul = gridlock. Look up the “Know Nothings” on Wikipedia for an example in US history of how this worked.

Time just voted a “strong leader” who reflects the will of the People “Person of the Year”. Vladimir Putin. Who is giving the Russians peace and prosperity after years of clamor and destitution. Taking political worries out of the hands of the citizens. Just like Time’s Man [sic] of the Year in 1938. A puny Austrian named Adolph …