Leaders that bad only come once a century… if that.

Contrast that with George W. Bush, who has completely disregarded US law (FISA), and has illegally wiretapped US citizens without obtaining a warrant, as that law requires him to do.

Or his practice of bill-signing where he reserves the right to interpret or ignore or the law as he sees fit. (He has made over 800 bill-signing statements to this point.)

With these and other actions, he has made a thorough mockery of the US Constitution (see Article Two, Section Three)

I wont even go into his foreign policy; domestically alone his administration has proven to be the most criminally abusive in the nation’s history, even topping that of Richard Nixon.

If I had your complaints about the US government (war on terror, war on drugs, erosion of privacy, constitutional rights, etc.), I’d hold the party responsible for them, well… responsible for them.

Both parties are responsible. The GOP lead the push for the war in Iraq, but many Democrats went along. Clinton abused the bill of rights with his Anti-terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, but many Republicans went along with it. Bush pushed the Patriot Act, but nearly all the Democrats supported it. Democrats have been especially supportive of Hollywood’s excesses, helping push legislation such as the DMCA and Republicans have fed the very industrial military complex Eisenhower warned us of. Major candidates from both parties have supported the ill-advised war on drugs.

I like Ron Paul, so much because he has spoken out (and voted against) the war, the war on drugs, the patriot act, torture, no-knock raids, and anything that violates the constitution. The same goes for Mike Gravel, to a degree.

For the record, I’ve voted for more Democrats than Republicans over my 11 years as a voter and I’ve never voted for a Republican for president. I’m not currently a Republican, but I am registering as one just to vote for Ron Paul.

I’m just a patriot who got tired of doing nothing. Countless people are dying in an ill-advised war abroad, citizens at home are being stripped of basic rights, and people are being detained and tortured without trial. This isn’t the kind of America I grew up loving, and it’s painful to watch.

Maybe it’s the 4th of July that gave me the final push to start writing. I don’t really want this to be a political blog, but each post does reach about 10,000 readers via RSS, I don’t think my conscience would sit too well with me if I didn’t do anything at all.

Sounds like you just want/need a Republican you can believe in.