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... Strong on military/national defense/ending illegal immigration and economic knowledge. But they also have to have leadership skills to get anything to work.
I don't know of any person who has all of those skills.
I really do align with a lot of Ron Paul's policies, and it was interesting to see his attempt to grill Bernanke, but he does lack charismatic presence and oratory skills ...
Hopefully someone with the core of his policies (some of them are at the fringe), combined with those skills, will emerge in the next four or eight years.
The democrats have those skills now in Mr Obama, but some of his policies are suspect. We'll see.
ME TOO and he's still in it. Everyone can write Ron Paul's name if it isn't on the ballot in November. Maybe we will have a surprise election upset of the century and he'll resoundingly win the popular vote. Hopefully enough people won't be so easily led by the media who want people to forget about Ron Paul.
If McCain was smart he'd ask Ron Paul to be VP and then model his platform more on Ron Paul's, then he'd win hands down--- because I'm not convinced intelligent Democrats are that impressed with Hillary or Obama. I think that with party affiliation aside, anyone who has seen any of the debates or heard any of his speeches have to agree that Ron Paul makes the most sense of any candidate so far----BY FAR.
first one has a decent platform alot of us would agree with i think... putting troops on the border,free healthcare,lower food prices, lower taxes, cutting off aid to Israel.
Not I.
"Free healthcare" is anything but; combining that with lower taxes is about the most foolish thing I've ever read.
In a society such as the one we have evolved to, it will be very difficult for a fundamentally sound candidate to win the nomination.
Call us superficial, narrow of scope, populous minded or whatever we have a penchant for oratory, appearence and perceptions. Perhaps it comes from our sports/extreamist societal ways.
That said, I think we indeed have had candidates that have faded into the virtual unknown that would have benefitted the large mass of middle-class Americans. No nonsense types frighten Americans, I guess.
We seem to prefer the flashier, better financed, better heeled, better connected and larger mouthed. So far these types have not done a very good job or set an environment in which good things can florish.
I would have thought Cookie Monster would have gone towards a universal health care candidate, considering his cookie eating, obsessive compulsive disorder
The only candidate I could approve of is Ron Paul. He is right about the FBI and CIA. I know these are not considered to be major issues but it is great that he has come forward and said what I already suspect is true.
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