I have to say that I’ve become quite political since I started reading your blog… it’s always a good read- even if I have to be constantly reminded how little I know about movies compared to you.

That, plus Ron is so much at odds with all the rest of their ideology, I think that it would be even less likely for someone to pick him as a running mate than for him to get the nomination.

In my eyes, it is the fact that he needs the Republican nomination for any serious presidential bid that is the main problem. The party system is broken, primarily in the notion that the election is essentially a “Who can throw the most money at the media” contest.

I don’t think Ron Paul would run on an independent ticket again. But what I would like to see is him in the passenger seat as Vice President. That could give him the name brand to get him in office in 2012.

The vast majority of America uses the internet for “the emails” and nothing more. They are not represented online, and they are the people who will be voting for the next president. It comes as little surprise that Ron Paul is so popular online, because the internet is predominately populated by idealistic young people like ourselves.

The second-best that he can hope for is to lose the republican primaries, and then run as a libertarian or an independent. This way he could likely get enough visibility to be a part of the debates at the least, and do what Ross Perot did in the 90s, which was to bring some extremely important issues (a balanced budget, mainly) to the fore.

http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm

This page aggregates recent polls taken by top news sources regarding the nation opinion of the war in Iraq. I think it speaks pretty loudly that we want the war to end. My favorite one is the stats from May till now saying 65% of people oppose the war in Iraq. That sounds like popular opinion to me.

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I didn’t get a chance to rant all of my points.

As long as you brought it up, the previous “President” was guilty of lying to congress. This is an impeachable act. There is no evidence that President Bush ignored any outcry of the people. His assertions were based on faulty intelligence gained from an intelligence gathering inferstructure that was desimated by his predicessor. Enough said on this point.

I also think you are making an enormous mistake by overestimating the electorate. You seem to think that the United States population is as passionate about views as you are. History has proven that this is not true. Most people are single issue voters and can not see the “forest for the trees, or tree” try to broaden your view and consider long range impacts from some of the issues.

Time for a short history lesson, I will try to make this short. In the not too distant past, politics was much simpler. Parties were formed around “Planks” refered to as the structure of views shared by the party. Candidate would run on a “Platforms”, stating boldly what they see the problems of the country were and the direction or plan they have for the country. Ron Paul to date is the only candidate that I have heard professing a “Platform”. Getting any other candidate to commit to an agenda of what they would do short of sound bites that pander to certain interest groups is quite refreshing for us, but we are not common to the electorate.

With all of that being said, I will say that if by chance Ron Paul would get the nomination, I would be very supportive of his run for the Presidancy.