Why not Ron Paul? I'll tell you why not!

Lately the net and radio talk shows have been infested with Ron Paul supporters who try to convince the rest of us that he can and should be the next American President. Of course few people on either the left or the right find Paul even remotely attractive as a candidate and this has caused his followers to launch a campaign asking "Why not Ron Paul?"
Of course that question is really meant to open the door for them to spew in gallons of propaganda aimed at misleading people into thinking that Libertarian-in-Republican-Clothing Ron Paul--(R),TX is the second coming. They've practically declared open war on Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Michelle Malkin and other conservatives who refuse to embrace the guy. Well they can try me on for size too, because not only do I think that Paul's a loser of a canddiate, I've prepared an answer to their question. Why not Ron Paul? Why not, indeed!

Six reasons not to waste a vote on Ron Paul

1. Ron Paul’s weird 9/11 conspiracy theories. Ron Paul is now on record standing with Rosie O’Donnell, Dennis Kucinich, and that annoying french guy who thinks that the 9/11 attacks were either carried out by the US Government or done with the knowledge and aquiescence of the US Government. That sort of moonbattery might be enough to win him the crazy muslim fanatic vote in Dearborn, Michigan or Patterson, New Jersey, but it’s not going to wash with much of the rest of America.

2. Ron Paul’s foreign policy plans. These can be summed up simply as follows:
a. Quit the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and bring all the troops home now.
b. Close all our overseas bases and bring those troops home.
c. Disband our departments of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Border Patrol. Open our borders to anyone who wants to come in. And oh yeah…get rid of the Drug Enforcement Administration and legalize dope too.
So we can look forward to great economic times as all those soldiers and government employees hit the unemployment rolls and the illegal aliens (and a few terrorists) swarm across our borders in competition for the remaining jobs (and civilian targets). But at least with legal drugs everywhere, we’ll all be too stoned to care.

3. Ron Paul on the economy. As if the above isn’t bad enough, Paul wants to get rid of the Federal Reserve Banking System (and all of it’s safeguards which protect our bank deposits and stock investments) and just put our monetary system on the gold standard. Wow, that’ll be great as other nations with large gold supplies—notably Russia and China—can benefit from new opportunities to manipulate the value of the new gold-backed American dollar.

4. Ron Paul has no allies in either party. None. The Republicans dismiss him just as readily as the Democrats do, and this is one of the reasons why he’s never managed to get any legislation passed as long as he’s been in Congress. But Ron Paul isn’t in Washington trying to do anything other than pump his name recognition up by playing to his nutbar base. His disciples in the Libertarian Party love him because of the things he says and because he actually recognizes their party but most of them still live in their parents’ basements and really aren’t much of a supporter base. And with no real base of supporters and no allies in either party, he'd be powerless as a President.

5. His followers are bananas. As I’ve stated already, Ron Paul is the candidate of choice for the late teen/early twenties males, especially those who aren’t known for their promise or skills in any significant areas. (Playing Dungeons and Dragons or becoming fluent in made-up Star Trek alien languages doesn’t count.) Most of America just ignores Paul but this small demographic sees him as their king and messiah and they think that if they can get him elected, it’ll be like revenge on the rest of us for not accepting them. These cats are weird but they’re also manic about Paul and they spend their days spamming internet discussion forums and trying to sneak onto conservative talk shows to tout Paul, often disguising the fact that they’re Paul supporters so as to enable them to disseminate more Paul-proganda before they get the boot. Anyone that appeals primarily to these folks is definitely off-track with mainstream America.

6. HE CAN’T WIN! RuPaul’s small but vocal army of angry net bots seem to think that his ability to garner as much as 7% of the vote in polls (polls which they themselves admit working to stack) can translate into a victory. Well it can, but only for anyone running against Paul. You see, Libertarians always think that if they can just get their message out, Americans will flock to their colors. They claim that they fail in election after election because the major parties and the media conspire to keep them down, but the cold hard fact is that America knows what the Libertarian Party is all about and with the exception of a small band of loner college kids and disgruntled fast-food workers, America doesn’t want it.