> 1. Staunchly pro-life. <br>> <br>> 2. Would gut the federal govt., axing things like the Dept. of Education. <br>> <br>> Even people who don't react negatively to #1 tend to react negatively to #2, unless they have libertarian leanings. <br> <br>However I would LOVE to see this country head in the direction he wants. That's why I think he'd make a great president, having a congress filled with Democrats and Republicans. I have the feeling he would get on the 5 o'clock news and call them out for even the slightest bit of bullshit, and he'd pull the veto card so many times it'd make their heads spin... but at the same time the democrats and republicans will enact laws which will create a reasonably slow transition in the "right" direction. <br> <br>Frankly the thought of 24-28 consecutive years of only Clintons and Bushes in the whitehouse frightens the shit out of me regardless of their individual politics. American needs a dramatic change and I hope Ron Paul is it.