Analysis of Ron Paul

While doing this I have found that whether an item falls under "Positive" or "Negative" is largely subject to my own opinion. Although I am trying to think on a larger scale about them, about how they would affect America.


MY ANALYSIS OF RON PAUL:

POSITIVES:-Believes that abortion is murder. Period.
-Opposes using tax dollars to fund organizations that promote abortion.
-Supports only appointing judges who refuse to legislate from the bench. 
- Wants to reduce size of government and start paying down our debt instead of adding to it
-Wants to audit the Federal Reserve.
-Opposes National ID card.
-Believes we should legalize drugs and prostitution.
-Voted YES on ending preferential treatment by race in college admissions.


-Opposes “hate crimes” legislation
-Supports closing the Department of Education.
-Wants to encourage homeschooling and private school via tax writeoff
-Voted NO on $84 million in grants for Black and Hispanic colleges.
 -Voted no on No Child Left Behind.
-Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution.
-Wants to cut all foreign aid to the Middle East.
-Wants us to stop interfering in other countries business. 
-Opposes nation-building, world policing and pre-emptive war.
-Wants to withdraw from UN.
-Wants to block international highway from Canada to Mexico.
-Opposes North American Union.
-Wants to end government secrecy and restore openness of information.
-Wants to abolish Homeland Security.
-Opposes mandated health insurance.
-Wants to amend Constitution to remove aliens’ birthright citizenship.
-Wants to make English the national language.
-Wants to replace Social Security with Personal Retirement Accounts.
-Opposes raising taxes and in some cases wants to do away with them.
-Opposes applying broadcast indecency rules to cable networks.
-Voted against going to war with Iraq.
-Voted YES on providing $70 million for Section 8 Housing vouchers.

NEGATIVES:-Vote on an amendment banning adoptions in District of Columbia by gays or other individuals who are not related by blood or marriage.
-Opposes death penalty
-Vote no an amendment that would reduce the funding for violent offender imprisonment.
-Voted NO on military border patrols to battle drugs & terrorism.
-Voted NO on establishing nationwide AMBER alert system for missing kids. This bill would have also given a mandatory life sentence to two time child sex offenders.
-Voted NO on prohibiting lawsuits about obesity against food providers.
-Believes that if the economy were better there wouldn't be an "immigration problem".
-Believes it is impractical to round up all illegal aliens.
-Doesn't believe a border fence is important.
-Voted no on extending unemployment.
-Voted no on increasing minimum wage.


MY THOUGHTS: Ron Paul is primarily a constitutionalist. Though his Positives list is far longer his some of his Negatives are BIG Negatives. Based on his Negatives I sincerely hope that he does not get the Republican nod.