Ron Paul is the right choice

An interesting thing has been happening in the 2008 presidential elections. While the democrats have a pretty clear candidate, the Republicans still don't have an obvious choice.

However, as the Republican "front-runners" are battling it out, there is a unique revolution rattling the Republican base and changing the way politics are being run, both off the mainstream media and on the new medium of the Internet, where anyone's voice can be heard.

Ron Paul, a minor Republican candidate who puts forth truly changing policies that more people are flocking to every day, is the candidate of the people. He was the only Republican who didn't succumb to the peer pressure for the endless war in Iraq and continues to oppose it.

Personally, I don't understand how all these other candidates claim to be fiscally responsible when they will continue blowing up bridges in Iraq, rebuilding them and ignoring the very bridges right here at home that are collapsing due to missing funds for wars with no foreseeable end.

But it is more than just his sound immigration policy and plans to save America from bankruptcy that appeal to me as an ideological first-time voter. Dr. Paul has cured my apathy.

He has made me believe in the dream that was once America. While other candidates can't even keep a wife for more than four years, Paul's clean stance from his first to his 10th term as a Congressman means he knows what needs to be done, and unlike many unscrupulous members of our Congress, he is different.

I know him as an honest and trustworthy man. I know exactly what he stands for; he isn't trying to please everyone; he is trying to do what he believes is right- even his critics give him that credit.

It doesn't matter that he doesn't "look" very presidential. It doesn't matter studies say his high-pitched voice might turn off some voters. It doesn't even matter people say he can't win.

It's unfortunate that we think that way as a society, where candidates who are predicted to win are the focus of the horse-race journalism that is the media.

Voting for Paul is the only logical thing to do, the man who can win in an unpopular war with the general election, turn America around for the better and get America back on the course it was meant to be. Zach Kiefer Simi Valley