Ron Paul has a rare quality that Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter both had: They honestly believed in what they were doing. Doesn't mean that it would make him a great president (Carter wasn't), but look at what we get most of the time. We elect candidates that are good at getting elected, but are crappy leaders (something Bush 2, Clinton, and Obama have in common).
I think we are fucked and I think it's going to take a true believer to lead us out of it.
Did you seriously describe Reagan as a true believer? Of what? Reagan was a shill; a puppet for big business. (Just like nearly EVERY president of the past century.) But he is the perfect example of the kind of republican the people on the website seem to be idolizing.
Let's talk about this hypocrisy: When Reagan took office he enacted the biggest tax cuts in a generation, I think. He sold the country on 'trickle down economics. Here's his argument: if the richest people in the country pay lower taxes, they will have more money start companies, create jobs, and buy good and services. And this money will slowly trickle down back in the economy.
So he does it; he lowers the taxes on the rich, cutting off funding to the government but he doesn't reduce spending of the federal government- NO REPUBLICAN EVER HAS, regardless of their campaign promises. He just shifts the money he cuts from school programs into the military, to pad his rich friends pockets further.
When Reagan began his term, the national deficit was 700 million dollars. When he leaves it is 3 trillion.
I don't know where you all are getting your information from. I have to assume it is fox news. I am not an Obama supported. I want REAL reform which would benefit the American people. And neither of the two parties represent reform. They are two sides of the same coin. And anyone who doesn't see that is literally brainwashed.
Politicians don't care about you. They don't give a fuck about us or our families. They are high priced prostitutes for big business and banks. BOTH republicans and democrats just want to raise taxes and give it back to private industry who got them in office. Deficit spending is stealing the wealth of the middle class and BOTH parties are in on the scam. You believers have been had.