by Patrick Henningsen

Created on: October 11, 2007

The false paradigm which pits Republican vs Democrat, or Conservative vs Liberal has, for the most part, reduced the current 2008 Presidential race to a field of dead horses. There is one candidate though, who managed to avoid rigid party politics and shine through by broadcasting a message with real cross-over appeal and he has earned the respect and loyalty of millions of fans already. If you haven't checked this man out yet, now is probably a good time to do it. His name is Ron Paul, a true conservative in the traditional sense of the word, sporting a non-interventionist, fiscally conservative agenda that is gradually taking the Republican ticket by storm. What is making this candidate so appealing to Americans on both sides of the political divide is that his pure Constitutionalist policies transcend the polarity which has paralyzed American democracy in the 21st Century. He has already moved some pundits to label him as authentic "founding father material".

So can an anti-war leader still be considered a conservative? This is in fact one of the forgotten definitions of a true conservative, and Ron Paul's singular prominent voice points out how disastrous our recent misadventures in Iraq have been on the American psyche- and of course, its domestic economy. Fear of clashing with Washington and power lobbies like AIPAC has made every other leading Republican and Democratic candidate fearful of parroting anything other than the current Neoconservative party line of pre-emptive military intervention in the Middle East. Ron Paul's voice is one that many Americans have yet to hear because it doesn't fit in the official storyline fed by the mainstream media- even leading Democrats Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama have adopted the aggressively Neocon pro-war stance. This have left the American people with a 'Hobson's Choice', between pro-war Republicans vs. pro-war Democrats.

There still remains a sizeable contingent of Noconservative people in America that despite its toal failure, still support the war and do not want to hear the truth, as it fundamentally shatters a comfortable, albeit naive, view of the world as determined by Wshingon and its compliant media arm. Ron Paul's stance against current Neocon foreign interventionist policies has made him popular in both Democratic and Republican circles and has been embraced by a rising tide of Americans who can longer support the US military occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, an occupation which Washington has

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