President Ron Paul

Texas physician and Congressman Ron Paul emerged victorious at the Conservative Political Action Conference in a straw poll conducted at the plenum to determine who the attendees deemed should be the next President. While there is virtue in some of what Ron Paul says, the same could have been said of Adolf Hitler. Paul is a reactionary with as many out there sentiments as Obama has on the left. A complete and immediate end to foreign aid and a return of all US forces to the homeland are preposterous on their face. Two hundred and thirty years ago avoiding foreign entanglements was laudable, but in today's jet age world, it is an impossible prescription that only a quack of a doctor would offer as policy. The runner-up Mitt Romney is probably also unelectable nationally as a Mormon former Governor of a liberal state only now finding (pretending) his connection to rightist causes. Third was Sarah Palin, she of so much international notoriety who is still dismissed by many as a lightweight (even intellectually). At least, if she proves her capabilities, she may actually become electable at a national level. In any event, none of the three could ruin America and threaten our rights any worse than Obama.