Ron Paul, the RE-founding Father

I'm pretty sure that the founding fathers would be proud of one, and ONLY one politician: of course, Ron Paul.

Strickly adhearing to the constitution, Ron Paul advocates a non-interventionist foreign policy. Ron Paul would bring home all of the troops from around the world. This, not only would increase our own safety, but enable us to better protect our own boarders. The key focus in this foreign policy is us...as in U.S., focus is totally on us. Bring the troops home to protect our boarders, not the boarders of Afghanistan and Pakistan, North and South Korea, Iraq and Iran. Nay-sayers might say "This foreign policy is dangerous." I say: HOW!? All of our troops on our own boarders? How is this dangerous...it sounds like the safest thing we could do!

Same-sex marriage, Abortion

This is where Ron Paul sold me his message. Personally I'm pro-choice, and pro-same-sex marriage. But here's the thing, why on Earth is same-sex marriage even an issue?! The Federal Government should not have ANY role in its citizens' personal lives. Period. End of story. This is an issue that should be left to the states. In other words, in some states it would be legal and in some states it would illegal. Fair and Square. He feels the same about abortion.

War on Drugs

This was also a selling point to me. I should point out that in '08, I voted for Barack Obama. But it was also during that '08 campaign that Ron Paul first got my attention. Since then I have done my own research. I re-registered to vote as a 'non-affiliated' voter. This year, I re-registered again as a republican, for the sole purpose of being able to vote for Ron Paul in my state's (Oregon) primary on May 15th.

Anyway, the war on drugs. Ron Paul has realized that the war on drugs has failed. There are better ways to go about this and throwing money at it hasn't helped, it's only made things worse. By ending drug prohibition, crime would actually go down. As a physician Paul believes in treating drug addiction as a medical problem, not as a criminal act.

Marijuana

Ron Paul favors the right of patients to use medical marijuana. Federal agents raiding medical marijuana dispenseries is unconstitutional. He also advocates growing industrial hemp. Farmers have demanded to grown industrial hemp for decades. Hemp is a viable replacement to timber. It's cheaper, grows quicker, and industrial hemp is not the same hemp that is smoked.