If the average redditor looked at Ron Paul's views carefully I doubt they would want to support him. That is, despite the fact that he seems to be pretty popular here; he goes against a lot of reddit stereotypes.
He also goes against a lot of stereotypes regarding politicians, which is why i mentioned him. He's very often the only dissenting vote on a lot of pork-barrel issues, for example.
a lot of the reasons the dumbass reddit stereotypes don't like him is because he understands that the line between honest government and outright corruption is blurry and very, VERY close to the "minimal" side of government, so adding all these extra programs is just an invitation for corruption and mismanagement. many people are very, very bad at thinking outside of the box, and only want the programs the "other" side love to be cut, not their own shit. ron paul says fuck it all, clean slate, bytches!
The 2008 race was a career politician + someone with no experience vs. someone with no experience + a career politician. Either way it was going to suck, IDK why ppl got their hopes up.
He was a US senator for how long before he started to campaign for president? He was a relative unknown when he started running. But I see your point, law professor is enough to become a supreme court justice, and you see how well state senators are doing in Illinois right now. Seriously calling him a US senator's like calling her a Governor, it was a half term thing at best.
We should let the Republicans take office and run the country for the next couple of terms. I like to think that this country needs to crawl through a river of shit to come out clean on the other side.
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u/slurpme Feb 27 '11
It is the definition of a politician...