Run!!!

I was pretty sure this news was coming soon, but I am glad to hear it officially announced today: Ron Paul is forming an exploratory committee for a 2012 presidential race.

I voted for Obama in '08, but he will likely not get my vote again, because I don't like how he has handled immigration (more crackdowns and broken families than under Bush) and the war in Afghanistan (pretty much the same crappy way Bush handled Iraq).

Ron Paul isn't the savior of the world, nor of the United States, but he is a lot smarter than anyone else currently in the running. He is also more consistent. He believes in free speech for everyone, not just people he agrees with. He promotes tolerance, nonviolence, and nonaggression, which is FAR more than any other Nobel Peace Prize Troop Surge Muslims Suck Beat the Bad Guys in Every Corner of the Globe Because America's Got the Answers candidate in either party. I have a hard time with his support of the purely free market, as it seems that in so many corners of the globe, that becomes a platform for people in power to abuse those lower on the totem pole. But at least he is consistent in his views - less government is better. So I don't 100% agree with him on everything; probably the only person I 100% agree with is myself. But if he ran and actually got nominated, I'd vote for him a heck of a lot sooner than for anyone else. (I just wish he'd run on a different party ticket than the Republican....it will pain me to no end to pull the lever for anyone with an R or a D beside their name!)

So....Run, Ron, Run!!