i don't get it

i'm (i guess) some kinda flaming liberal. and yet the only person who has even remotely represented my liberal interests in the past several presidential races? ron paul.

good wholesome liberals point out that he's a religionist, and anti-abortionist, a monetary-fantasy-land-ist, and a racist. i won't bother linking to the evidence, it's easy to find, and some of it is pretty conclusive.

but the perfect is the enemy of the good. ron paul isn't perfect. he may indeed be a racist. but he's not going to get into office and set up extermination camps for illegal aliens. nor is he going to get into office and appoint klansmen to the supreme court.

what he will do is stop sending billions of undeserved foreign aid dollars to undeserving foreign countries. he will stop the wars (for real, not just fake endings like bush and obama). he will not start stupid wars. he will cut back or end as much as he can the wasteful drug wars. he will expand the freedoms of the 99%. he will not fight for the 1%.

ron paul is a man whose tune has not changed. he stands for the same thing today as he did fifteen years ago. when he says he'll do something, he means it. only the severely uninformed could possibly believe the same about ANY of the other candidates, no matter their party.

all the other choices we have, or have had in my voting lifetime, have been liars, by commission or omission. ron paul -- whatever his stances on race or abortion or religion -- does not seem to be a liar or a sneak. and when you look at what he has said he will do as president, these are things he CAN do as president, without help from the useless and freedom-hating congress. contrast this to the pie-in-the-sky crap from the other candidates. contrast it to the warmongering towards Iran. contrast with the clever schemes from obama and newt to funnel money to the bankers.

i really don't get the liberal hate for RP. ultimately we are judged by our actions, not by our thoughts or our writings. as president, ron paul may think whatever he likes about black people, mexicans, and arabs. if he avoids war with iran, he'll be remembered more favorably than any of his recent warmongering, freedom-hating, waterboarding predecessors and opponents.

a vote for anyone other than RP is a vote for more war, more weapons contracts, more mercenaries, more torture, more secret prisons, more assassinations of american citizens, more money for the bankers, more guantanamo, and more money for overseas oppressive regimes of all kinds. i don't see how a good liberal could support that.