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Watch Ron Paul’s Speech After New Hampshire Primary (by PBSNewsHour)

Dr. Paul finishes 2nd in NH!!! :D

ron paul revolution give us back our constitution!!

bring them home! bring them home!! (the troops) <3

Ron Paul revolution? This is horrifying. Obama just brought home the Iraq deployment of the foreign combat troops with a plan to reduce Afghanistan forces tapering involvement over the next year. Was our incursion into these foreign countries unjustified and wrong? Yes, but like any mistake it is our job to responsibly fix it, and they doesn’t mean immediate pull out.

Give us back our constitution? The constitution is a living document that our founding fathers wrote to give us a foundation for this nation, built on the very idea that the government was for the people. Not dead people, not the past founding fathers, but people living in the moment. It was not mean to be adhered to for eternity, because the founding fathers had no clue what they future held. Their one goal was to create a government with a set of ideals that we were to never stray from; life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The only thing restricting these virtues from taking center stage is the never ending tirade of political bullshit swarming around every menial decision government faces. Shut up, look at the facts, the data, give it to us straight and set forth policies that benefit the greatest number of us. Work your way to a better future, and not your own pointless re-election.

Read Common Sense by Thomas Paine, the oh so beautiful political philosophy book that inspired our revolution and was, a mere 240 years later, mutilated by the likes of Glenn Beck and conservatives for their own agendas. Paine knows that governments are by the people, for the people. He would be appalled to see the constitution waved in the air like a prop. A movement to return strictly to the ideals on a 250 year old piece of parchment? Have we lost our minds? Paine would disapprove, as would Washington and the rest of the men you claim to honor but rather disgrace daily.

Do I believe in smaller government? Yes. But we are in a hole that needs to be dug out of before we can even think of simply down sizing for the hell of it.

I am frustrated beyond belief with the rhetoric this campaign by the GOP, and the democratic inability to confront these allegations.

Allegations that paint me, and anyone that falls towards a liberal or progressive end of the spectrum, as un-american. A virus that needs curing. I am part of your nation, learn to live with me as I have learned to live and work with you.

I am a progressive, and I am more American than you give me credit for. I, more than you stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For the separation of church and state. For the preservation of the virtues, not the words on paper, that this nation was founded on. The continued corruption of our constitution as a weapon against true, uninhibited freedom and equality makes me ill.

As I watch speeches by Romney, Santorum, and the hilariously bitter Newt Gingrich, I can’t help but fail to understand why more people don’t call out this kind of bullshit.

“I think the central issue during this election is freedom.” - Santorum

“[Insert endless tirade of references to blue collar America all whilst vaguely outlining almost no political idealogoies whatsoever beyond essentially beating his chest and shouting “America!”]” - Romney

The mere fact that the suggestion that a vote for these people is a vote for America, a vote for freedom and a vote for our Founding Fathers makes me sick. There’s no mysterious spirit of America that we’ve been missing like some warped Pandora’s box that will magically solve all of our problems. Yet, as these men cite their love of freedom and American values as their platform, they are met with cheers. Cheers that essentially say Obama, Democrats, Liberals, Progressives, Moderates, and basically anyone who isn’t a Modcon, Conservative or Neocon is against freedom and what should be America’s values.

America’s number one value, the one that you gloss over, the one that created this nation and is tragically lost amid the political bullshit is the idea that this is our nation. No one is right, but collectively, this is our nation to build and live within. I’m a progressive, but not in the sense that I think either of these parties have the answer. The only reason I tend to vote democratic (my fiscal beliefs lean conservative, my foreign policy and ethics lean liberal) is because to me, there is a fundamentally disturbing aspect to the conservative, GOP movement. This idea that we are headed in the wrong direction unless they are in charge. It’s a bitter, angry, vindictive stance that causes stalemates politically and vicious rhetoric that poisons this country. The democrats stand idly by, trying to win elections by being less extreme politically, but offering nothing better in return.

This is why I wanted Ron Paul as the candidate. I don’t support him in any way as someone that I want to be president, I want Obama re-elected in 2012, but what I want before that happens is an election that forces him to acknowledge his shortcomings in changing the political system in this country, a promise he made to me, a first time voter, almost four years ago. Four years ago when I campaigned throughout Philadelphia for him, inspired by a breath of fresh air after years of lies and the kind of bullshit that has since dominated this nation’s political discourse.

Then he got elected, fell right into the comfort of the system, the special interest groups, the bickering and the stalemates. Ron Paul is frank, honest and ballsy. He would play devil’s advocate and he wouldn’t allow Obama’s bullshit during a debate or through speeches. He would represent a far right end of the spectrum and point out specifically the areas in which Obama has failed on a fundamental, government basis because that is Paul’s area of concern. His very presence as the antithesis to Obama and what he has become would pull him back out of the muck; the circus of the two party system, and bring him back to not just talking about change to get re-elected, but having to promise to do it to win back voters. The democrats would never let him promise fundamental government change without doing anything about it (he would nail their coffin shut for 4,8, maybe even 12 years).

I guess what I’m saying is that I just want to see a good fight, but Romney is the same cookie cutter GOP shit spewing puppet just trying to win votes that we have seen so many times before. These elections bring out the worst in our politicians, and I might as well accept that we’re in for four more years of pandering.

whatdefrig:

maureenmargaret:

synecdoche:

yep.

You don’t have to be a genius to know Rick Perry is a fucking homophobic ludicrous excuse for a human.

Newt Gingrich is leading the pack for your party. Donald Trump is hosting a debate. Your candidates are changing their views daily and jumping through flaming hoops to satisfy voters, your first “leading candidate” was Michelle Bachman, a woman who couldn’t take accurate notes in the margins of her history books, let alone recall facts about the basics of this country’s history. Then you moved on to Herman Cain, a neocon puppet derailed by sexual harassment. Oh, and this son of a bitch in this hate filled horseshit propaganda ad was taken seriously and led the pack at one point. Your political machine, transparent bullshit has gone past my ridicule and earned my hate. Good day to you GOP. I was so hopeful that maybe we’d at least have a race on our hands that would force a candidate to take a serious stance and maybe shake up the system a bit, but here come politics as usual.

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