Dr Paul would be a perfect fit with the next Democratic controlled Congress. He would slam the door on spending and

stop the global police work the corporations and religionists so dearly want.

All the talk about Ron Paul changing to the gold standard, abolishing social security, labor laws, etc. would not see the light of day under the next Congress.

Ron Paul caught my attention beause he is the first politician who actually believes what he says. I will vote for him because he would end the stupid occupation in Iraq. Except for Kucinich, the other candidates D and R, including Fred Thompson, are a bunch of corporate bobbleheads.

I am no fan of the "spend and bill our children repubs" but I have to admit Ron Paul intrigues me. All the negative reporting, "gadfly" is the least of it, actually enhances Dr Paul's position. When I see the negative treatment he receives from the MSM who backed this Iraq nonsense I smell smoke and have to admit he resonates with me.

Just the idea of DR Paul being president and not appointing a drug czar is quite appealing to this liberal. Obviously, his stand on the Iraq occupation and foreign policy would probably put him over the top against the pro-empire Democratic choice.

There is quite a large sum of our tax money burnt on maintaining this global empire. The question is, will the repub electorate put aside their paranoia of two-bit Asian hell holes taking over the USA? If they do and nominate Dr Paul they have a good shot in 2008.

If Paul were nominated there would be many democrats in a dilemma deciding in November 2008. If the Rudy, Mitt, Fred, Bush clones etc. are nominated I think the Dems win.

The Democrats and Republicans can have their primary on their own time and on their own dime. It is not the business of the people too fund a political party's selection process. They can rent a convention center and draw straws, or use the internet, or mail in absentee ballots. The point is they do the work and fund it.

The only election should be in November. It should be 3 or 4 days long and include a weekend.

To give all views a fair chance we should go to an IRV (instant run off voting) system. Every voter ranks their selection:

http://www.instantrunoff.com/

http://www.fairvote.org/irv/

McCain should do everyone justice and drop out. He wants to carry the water for Bush/Rove after what they did to him makes no sense to me. How he tolerated Bush/Rove swift-boating him after what he went through as a POW reveals a character flaw everyone should be concerned about.

It seems like we have 3 choices in 2008. The American Empire nanny state offered by the NEOCON Republicans or the nanny state offered by the Democratic candidates or Ron Paul who thinks we cannot afford all this nanny state nonsense.

One needs a great leap of faith to endorse a national sales tax. Huckabee backs this nonsense. The mother of all taxes.

If you use reason and logic you will want to flush the sales tax. Not Huckabee.

I await any Fair Tax advocate to come forward and give a realistic prediction of how much enforcement will be required to make this nonsense work.

With the internet in an embryonic stage, here comes the pied piper from Hope, Ark. to abort it. What a great mind. Then again, you got ta have faith.

If a sales tax appeals to you please give this link a read.

Scroll down to National Sales Tax:

http://savingcommunities.org/issues/taxes/sales/destroyscommerce.html

Happy New Year

With the internet in the embryonic stage why would Huckabee want to tax it? I would think keeping track of all the economic activity on the internet would be an insane idea.

The Fair Tax punishes the advancement of our economy.

http://savingcommunities.org/issues/taxes/sales/destroyscommerce.html

http://www.progress.org/gaffney/salestax.htm

Why do these Christians, like Huckabee, want a government to enforce their perceived beliefs of what Christ taught?

When I read the New Testament I don't find Christ appealing to believers to go get a government and get started doing my work.

Christ called for individual action.

Also, why do these modern Christians love punishment so much?

Again, where in Christ's teachings does he emphasize punishment?

Further, a government dealing it out?

The Moon should be shared, not cut up into private domains. I have no problem if people privatize what they create with their own labor, but no human created the moon nor the minerals on it.

Whoever converts the minerals to profit should reap their reward

but there should be a royalty or citizen dividend along with the profit.

http://geolib.com/essays/sullivan.dan/royallib.html

http://members.aol.com/_ht_a/tma68/kyriazi.htm

I don't recall during the Vietnam War (USA the opponent) protests the back stabbing of the people of Vietnam right after WW2. During WW2 the Vietnamese people fought the Japanese. They were on our side.

Just days after the Japanese surrender, 2Sep45, ink still drying,the British rearmed the Japanese POWs in Vietnam to fight the Vietminh so the French could continue their control over the people of Vietnam.

General MacArthur said in Tokyo:

"if there is anything that makes my blood boil it is to see our allies in Indochina and Java deploying Japanese troops to reconquer the little people we promised to liberate. It is the most ignoble kind of betrayal."