Quote Originally Posted by angry nomad
It seems like the people that hate Ron Paul have a lot of negative things to say, pointing out problems, but never have any solutions. Also, for some reason, the people that hate Ron Paul are so antagonistic, and I have no idea why.
Any idiot can criticize a candidate they don't like, but it takes intelligence to give valid reasons why they support an alternative. I personally don't give a crap who hates Ron Paul, I don't take presidential campaigns personally like many others do, but what annoys me is the persistent criticism with no alternative ideas for a better solution. People feel like they are smart when they talk about politics, so a lot of dumb people can only criticize. They find one thing wrong with a particular candidate and are like "oh my god, this candidate said such and such, I can't support him bla bla bla" They feel smart when they say something like that, for once in their life they feel part of the political process, but the reality is that they aren't presenting an alternative and really aren't that smart at all. Playing political armchair quarterback doesn't take a lot of brains or knowledge of politics in general.

Everybody wants the perfect president, another political Jesus to magically erase all of their personal problems away with one pen signature. So the masses of stupid are mislead away from truly honest candidates and are directed towards the same corrupt liars over and over. Nobody really wants a president in the middle, democrats want an extremist, and so do republicans, democrats want a socialized president to give them money, and republicans want a pro-war Christian president.

Until we get smarter voters in the booths, don't ever expect another great president.