Why does everyone want Ron Paul to be president?

I'm Australian, and I don't pay to much attention to recent US political events. (I do know a bit)

But I am curious to know two things.



What is the main thing Obama has been doing to make people angry - (Non Biased opinion please, I want facts, not rage and conspiracy theories)



What is Ron Paul promising, what is it he is offering America that so much people seem to like - (Once again, non biased opinion, and please keep it brief, I don't want to have to ready large paragraphs of information)Why does everyone want Ron Paul to be president?
Not everyone wants Ron Paul. At this point he's second in popularity to Mitt Romney, whom nobody likes. 8^) And Pres. Obama is more popular than either of them.



Paul represents the only real alternative in this election. All the Republicans have all the same opinions and positions on all the same issues. The old saying is; Democrats fall in love, Republicans fall in line. But the leadership of the party is finding that their voters are not as happy to fall in line this time. Paul is the only alternative to a return to the egregiously failed policies of President Bush.



The thing is, mainstream Republicans, Reaganites, have consistently broken their promises for 30 years now. They've raised taxes, they've spent huge deficits, they've gotten us involved in stupid quagmire wars. But Ron Paul has never had a chance to break his promises yet. He's as 'new' and 'fresh' as Reagan was in 1980, when everyone thought he was going to balance the budget and give them a big tax break.



As for Obama, the Republicans don't like him because he's a Democrat. They have owned the White House so much in recent decades that they've come to see it as THEIR house. When a Democrat wins, they go on a four-year-long hissy fit. Basically they just say (and believe) the worst, most damaging things they can think of to damage him, true or not. Their overt strategy is to block everything he tries to do and then bash him as a do-nothing president.
Obama has supported an individual mandate for health care and increased the national debt. I will give him credit for being getting troops out of Iraq, but hasn't gotten rid of the patriot act or closed guantanamo bay. He has not supported ending the "war on drugs" which is costing millions and increasing the prison population.



Below is Ron Paul's plant to restore America. he plans to cut $1 trillion from federal budget year one, including the excessive "defense spending."Why does everyone want Ron Paul to be president?
I sure as hell don't. A lot of people with brains are also frightened of him.



Ron Paul is a complete racist and is just about the nuttiest candidate out there in any party. I would vote for Obama before Dr. Demento - Ron Paul.



Paul thinks the majority of blacks are criminals - stated it in his own newsletters over and over again.



Paul thinks Bush did 9/11 as an inside job. Waaaaaayyyy nutty.



Paul thinks America deserved to be attacked on 9/11. Said it himself many, many times.



Paul claims to be a strict constitutionalist, but does not understand the basics of how it works.



Paul would generate warfare all over the globe by bringing back US troops from every overseas base. We provide a lot of security and stability in the world.



Paul thinks America should have never fought the Germans in WWII.



Paul thinks Iran should be allowed to build nukes and they don't threaten anyone.



Paul thinks meth, marijuana, cocaine, heroin and LSD should all be totally legal because the Constitution says so. What a lunatic.



Paul is just about as insane as they come. He is racist and frightening in so many other ways too.
Bush was a republican. People didn't like him. Obama is a democrat. People don't like him. Ron Paul is neither. He's different. That's why people like him.



I think the main reason Obama is so unpopular right now is the debt. We are at $15 trillion. That's 15 with 12 zeros. He thinks the way to solve our nations problems is to spend more money, but that spending itself is part of the problem, says Ron Paul's supporters. Paul wants to cut money-wasting parts of the government.Why does everyone want Ron Paul to be president?
Obama made the government bigger, wants to raise taxes, wastes more money, is taking our freedoms away (ndaa, sopa), and he's intervening and starting wars in more countries.

Ron Paul wants to shrink government, lower taxes, stop the insane spending, bring our troops home(but out of other countries) and give us back our liberty.



"Obama hasn't done anything wrong. In fact I think he is the best president we could have for this moment, and I am libertarian (like Paul)."..........Hello?? Have been living under a rock these past few years? You think it's fine that he continues with these wars? You think it's find that he signed ndaa?? OBAMA APPOINTS MONSANTO'S VICE PRESIDENT AS SENIOR ADVISOR TO THE COMMISSIONER AT THE FDA%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt;%26lt; That's fine too?
well obama raised inflation but taking on this major debt from china and then printing money to pay it back which lowered the value of the dollar and created inflation. He has done nothing good all his policies have failed. Every campaign promise he made he has broken.
HE has caused the prices of gas to go up because he put a moritorium on drilling.
Obama hasn't done anything wrong, Bull *hit. Keep believing that and wind up living in a cardboard shanty, realize that people want change from what we have and that most will vote for the best that is offered.
1984 by George Orwell, of the Constitution of the United States. You can only choose one.
Because he is a no BS guy. I'm politically at the leftest of the left, but I can still be impressed with his arguments. To bad he's a homofob and anti-socialist.
Everyone? Who told you everyone wants that nut to be president? I don't.
MIT ROMENY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111 FOR PPPPPPP OF AAAAAAAAAAAAA
What Obama has done to healthcare - has made government a powerful third party player in the doctor-patient relationship. Today, if you don't like your insurance company you can easily switch to another provider. But in a centralized system, if you don't like the government, you can't switch countries. The practical implications of this also have to do with the federal funding of abortions (i.e. taxpayer's money funding abortions), and the survival of religiously affiliated hospitals such as the Catholic health systems. I'm speaking as a doctor. http://articles.cnn.com/2009-01-23/polit鈥?/a>

Ron Paul is appealing to me because he is the only candidate who is raising awareness of the problems of the Federal Reserve, which is an essentially private bank that is made to appear like a federal institution by the Federal Reserve Act. In truth it is neither federal, and it has no reserves, but at the same time has the power to limit the flow of money in the US economy to trigger recessions, and thereby bring the country further into debt through uncontrolled borrowing. I think Ron Paul is the only candidate who really understands the economy.
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Ron Paul also voted to stay out of Iraq.
Obama hasn't done anything wrong. In fact I think he is the best president we could have for this moment, and I am libertarian (like Paul). Obama is a progressive but he seems wise enough to see that too much socialist practices under today's conditions could be disastrous because the country cannot afford it right now. Huge hordes of excess Asian labor has sucked away too many of our jobs and industries to the tiny wages their overpopulating cultures desperately accept.

His hesitation has angered his voters who expected him to romp in with progressive and socialist policies they wanted and expected from him. Republicans never liked him because he is a progressive and they are conservatives with libertarians (true liberals -- see below) holding their noses next to them. The libertarians are there only because they think their Libertarian Party has no chance right now.

They believe (foolishly I think) that the conservatives controlling the Republican Party will make permanent concessions for them to keep their coalition. They constantly forget the conservatives historically have only pretended to accept libertarian policies until they can capture libertarian movements and subtly but completely change them to conservative principles. That is exactly what they did with the "tea party" movement that began as libertarian but was soon converted to conservative ideology.

The younger generation today likes Paul because he has new (to them) ideas. They know their future has been destroyed by previous generations squandering it away but they don't understand the greatest problem they have is their jobs being sucked away to Asia. They see that both the conservatives, progressives, and socialists (the latter two here fraudulently calling themselves "liberal" -- see below again -- and controlling the Democratic Party today) has done little to nothing to improve the problem, so they don't trust any of those although most of their parents and grandparents still have faith in them.

The younger set doesn't trust their parents either but young people in the US haven't since the 1960's. Just before then parents spoiled and sheltered their "baby-boom" children (post WW II births) so much the kids were shocked and freaked out that their parents would actually send them off to die in a war like the parents were forced to do themselves.

True liberalism advocates: individual freedom, weak government, and free markets. Conservatism advocates: moral responsibility, strong government, and protected markets. Progressives advocate: social concern, omniscient government, and controlled markets. Socialism advocates: social responsibility, omnipresent government, and collective markets.