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Originally Posted by RawAlex
Mike, if you are going to propose a different course, propose a different course. He isn't doing that, he is just "we will get out of the UN, we will kill the IRS, we will get the government out of your life... unless you want an abortion, then we will be up your ass like a bad hemeroid".
Tearing down a building is easy. But without a plan, you aren't going to have anything except a pile of garbage once you knock it over.
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It has never been his position to just go in and blow up every government program and bureaucracy he can, while he can, and just sit back and watch what happens. Read up on his positions, he does propose alternatives and transition plans for all of his "radical" ideas.
Currently *all* of our income tax goes to pay one thing. The national debt. He's proposed to balance the budget, stop deficit spending, stop the war, end the war on drugs, cut government programs, and give more power back to the states. If/when he can get the government operating within its means, he would phase out the IRS, since it would no longer be needed, seeing as the only thing our taxes our used for is to pay the debt that congress keeps inflicting us with. He's been very specific about how he wants to do this.
On a side note, he is personally pro-life, but concedes abortion as a states rights issue. Either way, even though presidential candidates love to go on and on about abortion to reel in votes from their base, they really dont have the ability to do a damn thing about it, aside from stacking the courts with biased judges.
Not that he would have the power as president to accomplish much of what he would like to do... so its kind of moot, anyways.
If anything, he will at least (I hope) turn the frame of debate in Washington towards fixing and minimizing the federal government and returning power to the states. Currently, the mainstream candidates are bickering over the different ways to expand the federal governments power.
While I support him, I am realistic. I know he really doesn't stand a chance, but I will be voting for him anyways. Unless you live in a swing state, where there's going to be a close election, your vote really wont count for anything anyways, except making your voice heard.
The fundraising efforts do give me a bit of hope though, he's doing really well. Especially considering he doesn't take any donations from corporations.