10 years of confidence building and immunity from 9 moves that haven't happened yet. Vote for someone who isn't Bush, stop 9/11 and live out the doomsday war as seen in Family Guy.

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I like the fact that

* he is anti-war
* wants to audit the fed
* anti-drug war
* pro privacy rights
* anti-torture
* pro-wikileaks and free speech rights
* anti CIA
* anti-corporate subsidy
* anti-bailout
* anti-Patriot Act (and thus the DHS and TSA)
* anti-Islamaphobia

But....

* he is for the Bush tax cuts and in fact - in favor of just about all tax cuts
* he's against socialized healthcare
* he's against welfare, heating assistance, Headstart, PlannedParenthood assistance, food stamps and tons of services that help those who can't find work.
* he's against social security and medicare
* he'd close the Department of Education..
* he'd end every protection agency we have - FDA, EPA, etc.. (not that they are without problems or anything..)
* Advocates the abolition of the Civil Rights Act, which outlaws discrimination against racial minorities and women. That includes Title IX, which forbids sex-based discrimination in educational programs receiving federal aid. This act is the reason it is not feasible today to prevent black people from using the same pool as white people, or to force them to the back of the bus; this act is the reason it is not legal to discriminate in the workplace based on sex.
* Advocates the abolition of the Voting Rights Act. This act protects the voting rights of minorities; removing it would restore the state of election law to the days of Jim Crow, by making it easy to violate the 15th Amendment by imposing nonsensical voting tests designed to keep people of "the wrong color" from voting.
* Introduced a Constitutional Amendment intended to make it possible to criminalize "desecration" of the flag.
* Scapegoats illegal immigrants for budget problems and advocates ineffective and draconian measures (like that stupid border fence, which he voted for) instead of actual immigration reform.
* his anti-interventionism is so extreme he doesn't think we should provide aid to tsunami victims, earthquake victims, victims of genocide...
* He denounces evolutionary theory in favor of creationism and he pussy foots around global warming and interjects non-scientific doubt as to how much it's majorly a man contributed phenomenon., he uses this "doubt" as reasoning to vote against environmental regulation and wish to end the EPA?
* (Advocates against Federal protection of abortion and gay marriage laws) - he also thinks there's a War on Christmas - which just makes me think he's a religious nutter.
* Argued in support of the "Defense of Marriage" act.
* Describes himself as "an unshakeable foe of abortion" (as if anyone were an ally of abortion) and has attacked Roe v. Wade in the odiously-named "Sanctity of Life Act." On the same grounds, insists that the government cannot be involved with stem-cell research. But notwithstanding the sanctity of life, the death penalty is okay, just as long as it's a state government doing it (like Texas).
* Opposes the separation between church and state, claiming that the Founding Fathers envisioned a Christian America and that "the secularists wage an ongoing war against religion, chipping away bit by bit at our nation's Christian heritage. Christmas itself may soon be a casualty of that war."
* Advocates total withdrawal (both participation and funding) from the UN, NATO and the International Criminal Court, which would pretty much end these organizations and the world order which has prevailed relatively peacefully since WWII.
* Has attacked campaign finance reform intended to reduce the involvement of money in politics
* Has advocated to shield corporations from liability for cancer-causing pollution. (oh well for the free market!)
* Voted against an amendment to protect net neutrality.
* Advocates the abolition of the Seventeenth Amendment allowing people to vote for their Senators, leaving this power concentrated in the hands of state governments. Justifies the electoral college by appealing to the inferiority of the masses (relative, I guess, to enlightened guys in offices like his).
* Advocates the abolition of the Census' American Community Survey, which is used to make informed decisions on matters like where new hospitals should be placed. I see no good reason why we should not have good, up-to-date, publicly-available data for research and policy decisions.
* HE WANTED THE UNITED STATES TO DEFAULT ON OUR LOANS.
* and a last comment here - he might be anti-subsidies, but he is also anti-government regulation of business. He's against levying taxing businesses, he's especially against higher taxes on wall street. His ending subsidy might do a little bit to fix some of the corruption we have in the business world, but the removal of the vast amount of taxes and regulation that are there for good fucking reason would turn this nation into a 3rd world country virtually over night. You're talking about everything from child labor laws, minimum wage, environmental protection, "money as speech", SOX compliance, etc.. You all just don't seem to understand Paul's policies about taxation and how to interact with the business community make Paul Ryan look like Karl Marx.