Todd ole boy sorry to bust your bubble but Ron Paul is pretty much the most principled member of congress. A libertarian he sticks to his principles even if faced with some pretty ugly verbiage both from the left and right.

I think I posted this once before but when you take a group of people both R & D's and ask them a series of questions designed to identify philosophical leanings strange things happen. In the D camp about 25% hardcore D but about 50% are closer to the Green Party and 25% go independent. In the R it is about 25% stay R beating the ole drum but nearly 60% are closer to Libertarian with the rest Independent.

When I sat through this exercise I was totally dumbfounded as I had always considered myself a conservative D. Well imagine my amazement when I came out Libertarian with Green Party leanings. ( lost true Libertarian on the military thing ).

Bottom line if people would vote for the INDIVIDUAL and not the party and we had public financing of elections so this legalized bribery came to and end, our kids would have a good run. Doubt it will happen as we are going to have to hit bottom HARD to dump the two perverted, immoral, damn near criminal parties we have. Hope I live to see it as it will be the greatest day in our nations history since the British defeat at Yorktown!