Quote:I think you and I have found something that we're pretty far apart on. I really don't place any particular importance on campaign finance reform in this election. I think it's hard to focus in on more than a small handful of issues that you use to guide your vote, otherwise all the candidates kind of swirl into one jumbled mess of compromises. That's really how Rand Paul ended up at the top of my list. His strong libertarian foundation is obviously very appealing to me, and while he doesn't go quite as far as I'd like in going to a consumption-based tax system, he does propose a flat tax that eliminates most special interest loopholes and is, if nothing else, a positive start towards a consumption-based taxation system. Essentially, I'm willing to live with areas where he and I disagree in the interest of getting someone into office who will defend personal liberty and dismantle the Department of Homeland Insecurity. I do so fully recognizing that he may well try to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges and Roe v. Wade, and that he will likely go after the ACA as well. Those are risks I'm willing to live with if it means tearing apart this nation's approach to treating its own citizens as terrorists until proven otherwise and rebuilding a society in which common sense takes over for McCarthyism.

That's perfectly fair. Again it's all a matter of perspective. In my case I believe campaign finance reform should be at the top because it would put the of the people part back into the equation rather than being of a few people with a lot of money. If you can fix that than the will of the people matters again because iny opinion, it doesn't right now.

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