This week's political sticker is for a candidate I'm sure many recall but who never managed to get the traction he really wanted. Another Pittsburgh native, Ron Paul actually served his time in the House of Representatives as a representative for Texas. He relocated to Texas after getting his medical degree and serving time in the armed services. What makes him an interesting character is that while he was clearly a Republican, he is very closely tied to the Libertarian causes and groups. Granted this is partly because he ran as the Libertarian candidate in the 1988 election but he also took his chances as one of the Republican nominees for president in 2008 and 2012. He had a fair amount of support behind him when he ran for the office of President, just never enough to really get his Libertarian ideals through.
Paul has always been a vocal conservative and a strong advocate for limiting governmental power. He supports adjusting our financial system, bringing troops back from all of the posts around the world, and wants the Constitution to be a driving force for laws rather than something politicians adjust to fit their needs. A big supporter of groups like Campaign for Liberty, he goes around speaking at college campuses promoting these Libertarian hopes now that he's retired from political office. I can't say I completely support these ideas but I do think that we need to expand our political parties and how the system works. Sorry I know this isn't a particularly interesting post, I'm just a little bored with the political stickers. I think the theme is definitely an interesting one, you could probably make an entire blog using just these political stickers, but it's not my forte. Finding these old stickers is always fascinating and discovering the campaigns behind them is rather intriguing, I just have problems coming up with ways to relate them in interesting posts. I could technically call it quits on these stickers, it is my blog after all, but I'm a rather stubborn thing so I'm going to see it through to the end. All I ask is that you bear with me for two more posts and then I'll move onto other, hopefully more interesting, topics.
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