I've spent the last few hours reading up on his positions, I just took an interest on what they all were exactly since reading up more and more on Rand. After looking at it, I just couldn't ever support him fully anymore. He's just too "strict constitutionalists" and virtually no governmentthat it's okay in some areas, but not in others for me where I think it needs to be.


For him with these...



I agree with him on a lot of his foreign policy, how we should keep our nose out of everywhere and stop trying to police the world(well where it's not needed like vietnam, korea, iraq and now afghan). Of course I agree with him on his stance on the wars we're in.

Definitely with him on the Patriot Act.

With him on ending the "War on Drugs" and medical marijuana.

His position on Stem Cell research.

His position against re-introducing the draft.






then what I'm against him on....

No gov. in the healthcare area, would just be insane. It's already horrible enough as it is because these companies are able to run wild. This includes him wanting VA hospitals to be phased out.

No gov. in the education system, esp. with homeschooling oversight. Then with the "tax credits" so they can choose private schools, which sounds good at first, then when I see most private schools are religious schools and that's tax-payer money going to a religious institution. He favors that, which would obviously be unconstitutional, but somehow opposes vouchers.


Against him with his opposition to same-sex adoption(which I honestly don't see how anyone can oppose that, stupidity really) unions and marriage - which he said he supports same-sex marriage, but has supported legislation that says otherwise.

Of course he's very pro-gun, but not as far as the right to own assault weapons/machine guns.

Him being 1 of only 2 people to vote against the Securing Adolescents From Exploitation-Online Act.

Oppose the part in the "We the people Act" that would allow a ban on atheists from public office. That one was ridiculous, along with other parts of that Act, but that one stuck out.

Definitely oppose eliminating the income tax.

Pretty much his entire immigration policy. He's against amnesty - I am for it. He's against birthright citizenship - I and other logical people are for it. And definitely abolishing the mandate for emergency care of illegals, that's just disgusting to me actually.

Against his position that we should intervene with the genocide in Darfur, sure we shouldn't police the world everywhere, but there's times we need to step in.


Of course against his opposition to Roe V. Wade, I actually think he'd be the first one to really try to abolish it.


And last, but definitely not least, this one actually got me into looking at all of his positions because Rands views on it. Which is his opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 64', when I read about Rands opposition and his support of businesses right to discriminate based on race, I wondered if Ron believed the same, sure as enough did. Then I read up on his Newsletter, which had interesting things like this in them.


"opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions,"

"if you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be"

Said MLK was "pro-communist philanderer" and to Martin Luther King Day as "hate Whitey day."

He's denounced the Newsletters, his newsletter, but when it's for him he flip-flops on that and defends whats said in the Newsletters.






All in all, he's not the man I thought he was. I think he could do a lot of good with a lot of his idea's, he'd be a politician that would do what he campaigned on, but with the positions I've talked about...there's quite a few that I would never want to see him carry out. I still think the GOP has treated him pretty unfairly during the campaign, the guy knows his shit and is extremely intelligent, but I definitely have lost a lot of respect for him after reading about what all of his stances are. I can't support him anymore.