[jrooney]

Ron Paul, hmmmmmmmm.............no. I will give him my vote when I do Hillary, Hagel and the other morons that think they are fit to lead this country to defeat. We are in a war in need a warrior, not an accountant whose math is fuzzy.

[wideawake]

While it is ironic that Ron Paul presents himself as a second-to-none fiscal conservative even as his own statements betray how unfamiliar he is with how the actual numbers work - there's another interesting aspect to him.

He is not an accountant by training and work experience, but a medical doctor.

He is 100% gung-ho for cutting spending by defunding our fighting forces.

Yet, his website does not even mention Medicare or Medicaid - programs that helped pay his bills, programs with which he is intimately familiar on a professional basis, programs which vacuum up tons of taxpayers money, programs which are sources of almost-unbelievable waste and corruption.

These two government programs do not even exist if we rely on his website as a resource documenting government spending.

[malibu2008]

bin Laden alive - 3,702 coalition KIA - tens of thousands permanently maimed - $ billions that don’t go to your kids education or roads or other infrastructure . . .
some “Mission Accomplished !” fool you must STILL be !

Ya’ kinda already bein’ led down dat yellow brick road of the already defeated by bin Laden , n’est ce pas ?

Maybe even more fiscal conservative, constitutionalists like Ron Paul are what we need to turn around from this proud and permanent state of paper money-printing “victory” we find ourselves in !