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	Aspies for Ron Paul? Congressman Ron Paul formally declared his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination on March 12, 2007. Since then more and more Aspies are waking up to the fact that Ron Paul is the Presidential candidate who best represents Aspie values and principles. Ron Paul not only professes to be an Aspie but his life and political career have been a model of logical, unempathetic thought. Here is a man whose career is not merely a type of pandering to "get the Aspie vote" but is in fact a clear record of Aspie principles in action. A brief overview of Ron Paul's career: • Ron Paul is a veteran WoW player, and became the first level-80 Druid in late 2005. • Ron Paul supports the rights of middle-class, white Americans; he would eliminate government handouts, which would lower taxes and allow more of these individuals to purchase video games and computers. • Ron Paul currently represents the 14th district in Texas (south of Houston) in the U.S. House of Representatives. It is well-known that Ron Paul counts the House's ceiling tiles on a daily basis. One afternoon Paul realized a tile was missing, calling it a "failure of our current unconstitutional government." • He is serving his 10th term in Congress. • He is an expert C programmer, and once quipped that all governments should be like C, because he admires its minimalism. • He is known to regularly use the term "ad-homenim attack" on web forums. • He consistently scores a perfect 100 on The New American magazine's "Conservative Index." • He has received many awards and honors such as the National Taxpayers Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, Council for a Competitive Economy, and Young Americans for Freedom. Where Ron Paul stands on some of the issues: • Ron Paul is an Aspie. He is a master logician and a regular hugbox user. • Ron Paul is pro-life. As an Aspie, Dr. Paul knew his only way to maintain a steady relationship would involve trapping a woman with an unwanted pregnancy. Many of our readers are in similar situations. Dr. Paul is not just an opponent of partial-birth abortion; he is an opponent of abortion itself. He is also opposed to federal funding of embryonic stem cell research. • Ron Paul is a believer in free markets. Unlike many "leaders" and Republican politicians who have spoiled America, providing a better quality of life through government-sponsored programs, Ron Paul aims for a free market. Private corporations will be able to provide things like roads, schools, and police. Individuals who are unable to afford these things will most likely die, making America stronger. • Ron Paul is opposed to federal regulations on hugbox sales. Though not FDA-approved, the hugbox is a proven device for making Aspies feel warm and loved. Many politicans are unaware that this issue even exists. • Ron Paul is a veteran and is opposed to the war in Iraq. Ending the war now will save taxpayer dollars. Leaving Iraq destabilized will not cause any long-term harm. Pulling out of a war is similar to kill(1)ing a process on UNIX. • Ron Paul is opposed to unrestricted immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. Nobody likes Vindaloo down the hall interfering with a marathon code session. • Ron Paul is against the tyranny imposed on the American people by our Government through the IRS and has vowed to reform our tax system. He opposes the Federal Reserve and our current fiat monetary system. Instead, the US currency would be based on a gold standard. Paul's WoW background will be a major help here. The gold standard will help fix the US/China trade imbalance, by forcing Chinese gold farmers to make our currency stronger. • Ron Paul is a strict constitutionalist. He never votes for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution. He has consistently voted to lower or abolish federal taxes, spending, and regulation. Taxes and regulation are harmful, since they interfere with social darwinism and remove valuable capital from our free market. • Ron Paul is opposed to the United Nations. He has introduced legislation to withdraw the United States from the UN. Dr. Paul believes that the UN is rife with corruption. It serves as a forum for rampant anti-Americanism. This is analogous to staying in one's bedroom reading books or programming a computer while the neighborhood kids play ball. Remember how many of those kids came home with skinned knees and sprained ankles? The US should stay home, too. • Ron Paul is the premier advocate for liberty in politics today. He believes in absolute religious and political liberty for all Americans. He strongly supports private property rights. Since the US does not suffer from any economic inequality, this will allow fair trade amongst its citizens. RON PAUL IN HIS OWN WORDS: • On his belief that the Constitution no longer is at the center of the government: "Ninety-nine percent of everything in the Constitution is to restrict the federal government — it's not to restrain the people. And yet today the people are being restrained and the government isn't restrained. And the people no longer have their privacy and the government has all the secrecy" • On his belief that the war in Iraq is unconstitutional because Congress didn't provide a declaration of war: "If you give up one part of the Constitution, you give up the whole thing because it becomes arbitrary for the executive branch and the judicial branch and the legislative branch. And that's where we are — we are an arbitrary government today. The government does what they please with no restraint" • On his campaign drawing supporters from across the political spectrum: "There is only one thing — the Constitution and freedom — that brings people together. And it's not divisive. We are not confrontational and we're very tolerant of other people's views. That's why individuals can come no matter what views they have" • On the Federal Reserve injecting more than $100 billion of extra liquidity into the banking system to stabilize a stock market rattled by the U.S. subprime mortgage implosion: "Who is going to pay for that? The taxpayer will pay for that. The people in the financial markets that took all these risks, they are getting bailed out. I think the average guy knows a lot more about that than anybody gives them credit for" • On his campaign: "In many ways what we are doing is sort of a stealth campaign. Maybe ignoring us for a while isn't all that bad, as long as we do the work and show up with the votes"