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Slogans and self congratulatory ranting are not answers. Yet that is all you Paulbots have to offer us.

HERE is an example of an answer a serious Presidential Candidate would give. Notice NONE of Paul’s answers ever fit this format. Instead they are all mindless sloganeering and/or bile filled ranting at everyone and everything.

Slogans are not solutions. Electing a President is serious business and should not be treated like a high school popularity contest. See to answer Â“howÂ” Paul would have to be saying something like this below. The whole problem with him is his whole campaign is based on misdirection and emotional hysteria, not a serious rational discussion of the issues of the day.

Paul might be taken seriously by thinking people if he said something like this instead of merely spewing slogans.

On Federal Spending. Federal Spending is out of control. To put our fiscal house in order my Administration will work with the Congress to pass a Balanced Budget Amendment to the US Constitution. I will work with Congress to abolish base line budgeting, eliminate earmarks, impose strict pay as you go rules for new spending. In my 1st term, I will reduce the federal deficit to zero and return our Govt budget to surplus. To achieve that goal, I will impose a mandatory 2% increase cap on all executive agencies budgets, require a top to bottom review of all agency functions and work with the Congress to reduce or eliminate departments x-y-z.

That is just the 1st step. Serious budget reform can only take place when we reform both the tax code and the systems of entitlements we have created. There has been no serious Social Security or Medicare reform since the systems were created! Obvious a system that is 75 years old in one case, and 40 years old in the other are way over due for an overhaul.

To overhaul these systems I will introduce legislation to the Congress that will privatize the following parts of both the Medicare and Social Security systems...

That is an example of answers that tell us HOW a politician plans to do something. Nothing in PaulÂ’s campaign does any of this. All he does is spew reckless demagoguery based on Talk Radio culled slogans designed to push the emotional hot buttons of a certain fringe segments of the US population Too bad for them we don't elect a President simply for spewing the best sounding rhetoric on this emotional hot button issue or that one. We elect a President on the base of his whole agenda.

Paul might be taken seriously by thinking people if he said something like this instead of merely spewing slogans.

Well, I could help to find out where you would apply to be a speechwriter for Ron Paul if you're looking for work. But he does write his own stuff. A lot of people still like hearing what a candidate thinks, warts and all.

Ron Paul's answers satisfy his supporters. Period. Same as any other candidate even if supporters of other candidates or the media find them lacking. Since you aren't a supporter and wouldn't support Ron Paul no matter what he says, then your "advice" isn't really worth that much even as a debate point.

I oppose Giuliani thoroughly for instance. So I wouldn't offer him advice and, if I did, I can't imagine he would take it seriously.

Ron Paul has said that he would deal with the fiscal issues, by first pulling back U.S. forces that are wasting hundreds of billions of dollars and using that money to transition us out of Social Security, allowing the younger generation to opt out of it.

The ending of SS would be the overturning of the New Deal and would rank right up there with winning the Cold War.

For those who want to see his stance on the issues, here is a link.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

Most of all a Ron Paul Presidency would send a message to Congress that the American people are serious about freedom, just as the election of Reagan did.