Don Quixote For the Rest of You
February 24th, 2008Numerous people on College campuses all over this country have jumped on the Ron Paul bandwagon because toothless elves are all the rage these days, I guess, and Libertarianism is chic. People like me are frustrated beyond words by the phenomenom. Take a few nights ago, as an example. I went to ride the train, downtown, and above the exit someone had placed an enormous Ron Paul banner. I go to drink coffee in University Hall at my school, with my favorite person on Earth, and there’s a Ron Paul sticker on the second story window, pasted from the outside. I write for a College newspaper that, for some reason, has written more opinion pieces about Ron Paul than any other candidate.
I open a newspaper, on the other hand, and the man is getting .5 percent of the vote everywhere he goes, but on the Internet and on College campuses he is spreading like gonorrhea. It’s ridiculous, and I wish that all the people who’ve fallen in love with that idiot (who might even lose his Congressional seat in this election) would get real and grow up, although I take consolation from my pet theory that there are really only five or six people in each city who love Ron Paul but they’re so committed that they make sure he is represented significantly, however insignificant his signs may be and are.
My dear friends, my Dear Readers, I bring this up not solely to bash Ron Paul but to introduce Don Quixote for the rest of you: Ralph Nader is running for President again.
Have mercy with realty, oh great pasters of stickers, hoarders of third party signs, brave and misguided souls!