Joe Miller's website has a good video of Reason editor Nick Gillespie talking about Mitt Romney's essential problem of being an echo to Barack Obama and Rick Santorum being an echo to George W. Bush. The only real candidate who is talking about truly changing the system is Ron Paul. And like Gillespie admits, I have no delusions that Paul will be the GOP nominee but its an important campaign to be apart of because this is where the Republican Party will truly reinvent itself.
I do believe that both Romney and Santorum have admirable qualities . . . I especially have a soft spot for Santorum because I went to the same church as him for awhile and know what a good man he is. But neither are true vessels of conservative change, and Santorum himself has been hostile to libertarianism within the Republican Party. Normally I would probably go with Romney over Santorum but I cannot get past Romneycare and the imposition of government into health care. Its this attitude why I'm so supportive of people like Cuccinelli and Marshall here in Virginia, because they represent such a change from the Republican status quo. It is a painful process that I find myself in that as abhorrent as it is to admit, if the choice is between Romney and Obama I honestly don't understand what the *real* choice will be? I understand that the generic issues on the margins will be in contrast, but what will really change? From Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama, what has really changed in this country besides more of our liberty being taken away, more of our freedom being taken away, and more and more government.
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