HIM Yao Sui asks: What is the reason for not voting for Ron Paul?

China's head of state in exile, China's Emperor, who is a loyal American citizen asks: 1. What's wrong with Ron Paul and why isn't everyone voting for him? 2. Who is the best person to be President and why? 3. Where do all of the candidates stand on the Iraq War? 4. While Obama may seem good with words and ideas, he is hollow because he lacks capacity and understanding. Perhaps, he just doesn't want to understand. So, should we have eight more years of the Bush administration under Hillary, McCain, or a very stupid Barry Obama? 5. If Ron Paul were the next US President what would he do with respect for the Iraq War and the 2 million innocent people murdered and what would his treatment of China be like. I, HIM Yao Sui, DO favor a man like JFK based on the following set of two hour videos: http://www.topix.net/forum/us/TQNVUHJ7CO4843OCK "Help keep hope alive! --or-- perhaps, let's all vote for a Bush clone in 2008!" Official Site http://www.myspace.com/centerkingdom What say you? .

Public Comments

1. Uhh..because he would be a waste of a vote?
2. I support Ron Paul INSPITE of relative wackos like you because he actually does have sound policy. you can read about it here if you click issues: www.ronpaul2008.com
3. They keep saying that he is a nut-job, or other insults, but never give any examples. BTW, the only wasted vote is for someone you don't believe in
4. What nacsez said.
5. Monetary gold standard supported by Paul is threat to people printing dollars. He has been marginalized for this reason. I encourage you to vote your conscience, not for fear of "wasting" your vote. Big money loves when you vote based on fear.
6. I am sick of being told that if I do not share the magical thinking of Professor Science's supporters -- "Vote for our guy and suddenly well-documented attitudes and policy preferences of the American people will change overnight, and we can do whatever we want! We just have to want it enough and be pure!" Please. Do not indulge yourself in a political fantasy and then knock me as a "sell-out" or "neocon collectivist" because I decline to follow you into the political equivalent of Middle Earth or Narnia. I live in the real world, guys, where some things just can't be done, at least not without twenty or thirty years of furious advocacy and serious movement in public sentiment. Reality itself is not a "neocon collectivist" construct. And I think, sometimes, that Professor Science's more fervent admirers think it is. "If you dream it, you can do it" is a silly bit of twaddle told to eighth graders at "Be Somebody!" self-esteem rallies. Adults who consider themselves astute and savvy really ought not be indulging in such childish sloganeering. "The Only Man Who Can Save America" cannot move us to a gold standard. "The Only Man Who Can Save America" cannot undo fifty years of bad liberal jurisprudence expanding the "Constitution," as liberal judges imagine it, into strange new realms. "The Only Man Who Can Save America" cannot single-handedly reverse the age-old habit of Americans of claiming they want low taxes and limited government while actually voting for new federal programs and giveaways. And I'm sick of being told that he can. There is one thing, of course, that Professor Science can do. As Commander in Chief, he could, immediately, surrender in the War on Terror and withdraw all our troops from overseas. (Pretty sure about that last one; I suppose there may be treaties that may have something to say about this, but as a general matter he could order most troops to be redeployed back home, and then, presumably, demobilized into civilian life as we shed this "military-industrial complex promoted neocon Army of Empire." So the one thing I'm quite sure that President Professor Science can actually accomplish is the last thing on earth I actually want him to do.
7. Why not vote for Ron Paul? Ah, because he is a Republican and America deserves better than another Republican president?
8. While I agree with Ron Paul that we should change our monetary system, and possibly go back to the gold standard, he is a Libertarian. Libertarians don't believe in government agencies of any sort. He wants to end the war, which I agree with, but he also wants to abolish the dept. of education. As I understand it, Libertarians think the only function of a gov't is to provide an army.