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Ron is one of the very last guys I'd vote for in the primaries. You could put McCain and JulieAnny in that category, as well.

I think there is a very large group of "Leave Me Alone" people in this country, enamored with his message. People tired of tax codes that take up shelves of space, and they know they can't take the time or spend the money to make this work for them. So they understand that it has to work against them, instead.

We don't have NEARLY enough Republicans - not in the House, not in the Senate, and not running to be the next President - who present this message: I'm going to Washington to make every bureaucrat there leave you the Hell ALONE!

And we really need to asking ourselves why that is. These should be natural Republicans, people.

People tired of unelected public bureaucrats determining if they can clear brush on their ranch, or tired of the same government regulators mandating that toilets can only flush 1.6 gallons. People tired of anti-smoking NAZI's. [I don't smoke] People as old as me who remember Reagan talking about FREEDOM and LIBERTY, like he really believed in the concepts, not like he was just giving lip service to them at the 17th campaign stop of the day.

The nannystaters are a growing menace to liberty. They are sick bunch of busybodies and parasites and need to be kicked to the curb. In large part, they fulfill their own emotional needs by forcing their ideas onto others through the use of government. Both parties have quite a collection of these nannystaters. The most prominent currently in the GOP field is Huckabee. I used to like him but his fiscal record was bad enough and then I heard him talking about our party base like Bush did, like we're some kind of hate group because we expect our public servants to do their duty and protect the borders of this country and regulate immigration. That made me very angry. So the Huckster is even lower on my list now than McCain. And he worked hard to put himself there too.

And we really need to asking ourselves why that is. These should be natural Republicans, people.

Yeah, but they're so afraid of offending the collective of minorities who come close to (or perhaps are) a majority.

No, a politician like Reagan who has the courage of convictions and is willing to be bold in his positions comes along rarely. Ron Paul is such a man, in his quiet way. He is sincere, he is principled, he is conservative and he is consistent. That's a lot more than you can say for most Republicans, particularly the ones in the current GOP field. I have to give Fred and Duncan and Tanc some good marks though. They quite often say what they think and don't worry that someone will be offended. Mitt is more nuanced but capable of some honesty but not really bold enough. He was better earlier, especially in the first debate. Rudi is a loathsome toad and liar. McCain is, well, hopelessly McCainish, the Bob Dole in the race. And Huckabee is honest enough but he is actually a Southern liberal running as a religious conservative and anyone who picks him for VP will drop a notch in my book. From a conservative standpoint, he's just awful though he is good on guns and on pro-family issues.

If we don't find a bold conservative message in 2008 and a candidate who can press it forward, the Dims will win. We must return to our conservative roots and repudiate the fiscal record and the "compassion" of the Bush era. It's over. It failed. A lot of us warned you even though we voted for him to stop Gore. But it's time to choose a new president and far too many Republicans seem to think we can somehow continue with that failed LBJ guns-and-butter philosophy. It won't work. It's a certain defeat for us.

Well, you can see my tagline pretty much sums up my outlook on our present course as a conservative party. LOL.