I'd like to comment on those saying that Ron Paul is more of a movement and less of a candidate.

They are absolutely right. 

Now that's not to say that he is less qualified or less electable, not by a long shot. Instead, Ron Paul has awakened, not created a movement. His supporters, his embrace of ideas and his ability to accurately layout whats to come will not disappear regardless of if he wins the presidency or not. His supporters are more fervent than what have been seen in a presidential process because they, we, know that we have the most at stake and the most to lose. 

Our opponents like to cast us as having such a negative outlook on the state of the United States and its future but its really quite the opposite. An awareness of whats threatening to what it means to be an American is not a negative state. To be aware of the faults means to be knowledgable of those faults opposites and to appreciate what we have and could have.

The liberalism and neo-conservatism experiment has failed at great cost to our economic prospects and personal liberties. For too long, we have been lied to and our politicians bought and our government turned against us. What ever happened to the concept of the government fearing the people, not the people fearing the government? Fear and lack of personal accountability have caused people to give up their rights to a government that has and will abuse them.

Not too long ago in the course of human history, the U.S was subjected to overtaxation, a massively overreaching and intrusive government, a strong internal occupational military presence, lack of basic human rights and privacy and corruption. It all started small but little by little grew to where it became simply unbearable. A group of men knew that the concept of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness were worth fighting for. Out of this powder keg grew the United States.

Today we see a great complacency amongst a large percentage of our people who would not blink to see a constitutional right simply abandoned, a president who is incompetent and a top republican candidate who would make the founding fathers roll over in their graves.

The only question is, in 20 years, will you look back and ask yourself why?
When your children no longer enjoy the constitutional rights granted to them? When the opportunities we once enjoyed are gone? When the American Dream is just that, a dream?

Optimism in the United States has plunged, even in the short 21 years that I have spent here. I have been on ALL sides of the political spectrum and I understand where people come from. But paramount to all political ideals are the core fundamentals that were created in the depths of tyranny that should never be eroded.

Yes, Ron Paul represents a far greater movement than a simple candidacy, one that will not be going away for my generation is becoming more and more aware of exactly what the problems are and what the solutions are.

“An idea whose time has come, cannot be stopped by any army or any government.”