he didn't even know who ron paul was 4 years ago, but he voted nader.
i've been trolled.
I knew his name but had never seen him on TV til 4 years ago. It wasn't until the republican debates of the last election that I actually heard him speak. It might of been the one where Rudy Giuliani got owned by Ron Paul.
[video=youtube;KuX73Ixqtbg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuX73Ixqtbg&feature=player_embedded[/video]
After that I actually started paying attention to him. The more I read about him, the more I heard him talk, the more I realized he was one of the few honest people I had ever seen on TV. He is even willing to put his personal convictions aside and uphold the Constitution as the laws everyone should live by. The only thing I ever really heard and disagreed with him about was abortion. I really didn't agree that abortion should be outlawed. I agree that it was morally wrong, but I think that women do have a right to their body. Then I actually looked up his positions on it and listened to him speak about it, like in this one where he talks about witnessing an abortion (1:55 in the video):
[video=youtube;FGyBUKMffaA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGyBUKMffaA[/video]
Or in this one, where he talks about it to the house or senate.
[video=youtube;Lg22y0mS7t4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg22y0mS7t4&feature=player_detailpage#t=154s[/video]
After hearing Ron Paul speak, and understanding his side. I can understand his position on it, I would never want a sexual partner of mine to have an abortion, except possibly if the baby had something horribly wrong with it or she had a high chance of dying.
So here was something I felt strongly about, and the politician that most closely mirrored my own beliefs was my polar opposite. I really had to question him and try to understand how someone who was 100% liberty and freedom could then go and believe in restricting someone's life or their body.
I am not catholic, and I don't think that condoms are a sin, I strongly support people using birth control, I think the morning after pill should be a lot easier to get, and I think Abortions up to a
certain point are a persons choice. However, at what point is a baby a baby? Is it when it cries and breaths? Is it when you deliver it? Babies have been born and lived before 22 weeks. Once a baby is a baby and not just a pile of cum in a woman's stomach aborting it becomes murder. Murder is illegal per the Constitution. If the baby has a chance of living on its own, then it is murder to kill it.
The realization that he is against letting people murder babies and not against abortion as an act made more sense. While I may not be 100% in agreement with Ron Paul about when a baby is a baby, I respect the fact that he thinks the federal government should not be legislating morality due to our constitution. He wants to leave it up to the states to decide, which makes a lot of sense. Our country is not a whole. It is 50 individual states with different beliefs and people. Ron Paul is so enamored with the Constitution that he votes against things he believes in because they are unconstitutional.
The realization of all that took away the one reservation I had of Dr Ron Paul. In four years, this man has become the only politician in my lifetime who I honestly could love, or even like for that matter. I love Ron Paul as if he were my family. I would probably cry if I ever get the chance to meet him. He is unparalleled in his defense of freedom, the Constitution, and the people of the United States of America. He is a shining example of what a man could and should be. Even if he does not win, he has taught me something, and renewed my faith in humanity.