Whatever happened to Ron Paul?

One of the idealistic young people who worked for the Paul campaign, Iowa State University student Jacob Bofferding, said he’ll carry on Paul’s crusade by working on the state legislative campaign of Eric Cooper, the faculty advisor for the Ron Paul student group which Bofferding led at Iowa State. Cooper is running for state representative as a Libertarian.

Bofferding said it is unlikely that he’ll work on a national campaign this year “unless I really fall in love with the Libertarian Party nominee.” 

Not keen on McCain or Obama
Bofferding is fairly sure he will vote for the Libertarian party nominee. “I would rather sell my soul than compromise my values by voting for McCain or Obama,” said Bofferding.

“McCain openly talks about staying in Iraq for 100 years, with the burden, of course, being on the American taxpayer,” Bofferding complained.

And Democrat Barack Obama is no better, in Bofferding’s view. “Obama still votes for war funding and champions bills like the Global Poverty Act that mandate billions more of foreign aid to be run through the United Nations,” he said.

Bofferding said his many hours of volunteer labor for Paul's campaign have, “made me permanently cynical, as I'm doomed to never approve of the drones and demagogues we're sending to Washington. I'm also able to take a much more critical approaching to daily economic news, such as the many rash moves made by the Federal Reserve.”

He added, “I would consider a career in politics if I even thought it possible for an honest man to break through the Establishment. The way Paul was treated by his own party and the media makes that unlikely. John McCain snickered at Paul on stage at every debate, and Mitt Romney even said in an interview ‘Ron Paul deserves to be laughed at.’"

He added, "Conditions in this country will have to improve before the American people accept an intellectual campaign similar to Paul's, versus the personality cult of Obama.”

Bofferding sounds pessimistic, although he seems to wish he weren’t: “I hate to say that spreading the message of liberty is a waste of time, but it certainly does not sound like a fun job to me considering the war-hungry, government-dependent attitudes of Americans.”

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