Why do people vote for Hilary and Obama?

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Everyone get this straight: Ron Paul is sincere and dedicated to his ideals and if elected he will work as hard as he can to make those ideals into national policy. He isn't a slave to special interests and he won't be if he gets into office.

HOWEVER

His ideals are somewhere between misguided and lunatic. He has absolutely no respect for Thomas Jefferson's "wall of separation between church and state" (he thinks the Founding Fathers intended no such thing) and he thinks it would be great if the church had more earthly power than the state (a.k.a. theocracy). He says that the Constitution is riddled with references to God (there are zero).

On the secular front, he is in favor of privatization and deregulation of pretty much EVERYTHING. Political theory aside, there are some areas where it is proven that the "invisible hand" does absolutely NOTHING to protect society from corporate depredations (the environment) and there are others where the private sector has proven completely incompetent (airlines).

He also thinks that there is a cabal/conspiracy to build a gigantic superhighway from Canada to Mexico as part of a master scheme to unite the entire continent into one economic entity -- one currency, etc. This is, um, not true.

Ron Paul has more honesty and integrity than any other Republican running for office. That doesn't mean you should vote for him, even if you're going to vote Republican.