Here's a comment from Michelle Malkin's "GOP 2012 Hold Your Nose Tracker":
I know I’m going to get some hate for pointing this out, but Michelle left off a candidate that’s still in the hunt: Ron Paul. Yeah, I know. But we’re going to have to pick our poison this time around and – at least in my opinion – the economy trumps everything else, and Ron Paul has that nailed. A broke nation can’t defend itself. If the economy is wrecked then the national security stuff becomes irrelevant anyway. Our national debt and the collapsing dollar are a bigger threat than Al Queda and Iran combined times a million.
Ron Paul released his economic plan today. It’s all cuts, and balances the budget in three years with no gimmicks or other BS. Paul knows he’ll have to fight Congress for every dime of them, so the plan cagily places heavy emphasis on what the President can do with constitutional exercise of executive power – Congress appropriates money, but the President isn’t necessarily required to spend it.
I really like some of his other ideas – he’s an absolutist on the 2nd Amendment (and the rest of the Bill of Rights), pro-life, and he thinks people should be able to opt out of Social Security and Medicare.
Yes, there’s a lot to dislike as well, but I’d rather have 70% of what I want from a candidate who doesn’t flip-flop then voting for some ballot leach whose positions aren’t really what I want and will change another half-dozen times before the election anyway. Sometimes I think Paul’s campaign slogan should be: “Screw it, at least you know what you’ll get.”
http://michellemalkin.com/2011/10/17/gop-2012-the-hold-your-nose-tracker/
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