The thing that really frightens me about this Ron Paul character is that he might run as an independent. We have enough people who are short on thought to throw the election to Obama by voting for independent Ron Paul. Apparently, the Ross Perot lesson was not received or was not understood.
What really frightens me is that he has a large youth following who have turned it into a cult. They all are worshiping at the alter of a guy ‘from the government who is here to help’. They weigh everything they believe about the government and the Constitution on what Paul says about it instead of picking it up themselves and reading it or grabbing the Federalist papers. They are worshiping at the feet of a career politician and are actually excited to send their money to someone in the government. They are selling their personal possessions and spending all their time in the service of him.
It really is a cult. Replace Ron Paul with Fred Phelps or David Koresh and the Constitution with the Bible and the the feel of the rhetoric would be indistinguishable.
They say it is just passion for ‘freedom and liberty’ but it has well crossed that line when they sacrifice their own individuality for a politician. They have long crossed the line from passion to obsession.
Neither party takes this country in a conservative direction. It seems to merely be a matter of marginally slower or faster.
I for one would like to see this discussed on the merits pro and con.
Can you provide a contemporary example in which Ron Paul suggests that he might run as an independent? It aeems to me that It seems to me that the idea only comes from Paul's detractors.