Not So Famous…

I’ve not mentioned this in awhile, and I don’t want any of you to think that my resolve to vote for an actual conservative this election has diminished or is wavering in any way.  In fact, McCain locking this GOP nomination just hammers home the need for change in the Republican Party!  Here’s the deal.

McCain is not conservative. Don’t look at how he’s positioning himself now, people.  Don’t look at what his people have said in the last year.  It’s pretty much mandatory that he now “LOOK” conservative.  He’s locked his liberal support.  He’ll lose some in this political repositioning, sure…but he’ll pick up more conservatives who are duped by his little image change.  Look at his voting record.  Look at the fact that he continues to oppose tax-cuts.  When Bush gave his across-the-board tax cuts, he complained that tax cuts were “for the rich”, which was an incredibly uninformed thing to say.  The fact of the matter is, his support among liberals ought to be enough to tell you that he’s not a conservative.  Liberals won’t support a truly conservative candidate.

I’m voting for Ron Paul. Why?  His economic policies make sense.  He favors small government; something that the Founding Fathers favored as well, having just shaken off the yoke of tyranny. He is conservative, and he stands for what I stand for.

I have been criticized for my position on my chosen candidate.  I’ve been told that Paul has no chance of winning, and thus I should not vote for him.  I don’t disagree with the premise, but I think the conclusion leaves a lot to be desired in the logic department.  Paul has no chance to win.  That doesn’t change the fact that I’m not supposed to vote for a candidate based on their chance to win.  I’m supposed to vote for who I think would make the best President of the most powerful nation on earth, and that is NOT a pseudo-conservative.  (I know, the popular term is “neo-conservative”, but I don’t like the term and I don’t use it.  “Neo-” means “new”, and that particular usage indicates that this is the new conservative outlook.  I disagree…it’s not conservative at all.  It’s liberalism in sheep’s clothing.  Hence, “pseudo-”.) 

I am voting for Paul because I am sick of the Republican party forsaking its values, and I’m not talking about anti-abortion, or anti-homosexual.  I’m against abortion and homosexuality is immoral, but those are primarily morality issues.  (Except for the fact that abortion is murder, of course.  Murder is also a morality issue that is only TRADITIONALLY a legal one…I expect that will change as progressives realize that without some moral framework based on something outside of themselves, they’ll stop supporting anti-murder laws.  They already feel that murder isn’t worthy of death…i.e. the punishment fitting the crime.)  The values of which I am speaking are small government, promoting success, and not punishing it, etc.  Those are values that the conservatives of America care about, and those are the issues that are steering me toward Paul and away from the pseudo-conservatives like McCain.

He won’t win, no.  I want his small percentage of votes to be a strong message to the Republican party that there are a lot of us out there who don’t even LIKE being associated with the GOP.  In fact, I’m only registered Republican so I could vote for Paul in the California primary.  I’m considering changing my registration now.

Vote for Paul.  Vote TRULY conservatively.

This post was inspired by this blog: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/05/ronpaulgop.html

I’m ALL FOR a GOP revolt.  Who’s with me?