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RON PAUL,
because he actually acts on his beliefs, rather than being a giant douchebag and voting in pork.
I would honestly forgive just about any politician for anything ever if they swore off ever voting for pork spending bills.
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Ron Paul is many things, but he is hardly kosher when it comes to pork.
One of many Paul pork articles
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This is the one issue with Dr. Paul that greatly, greatly disappoints me. While his rationalizations for the earmarks he's requested may seem plausible (he's just passing on the requests of his constituents as is his constitutional duty, he is just trying to recover funds lost from his district to federal taxes, he votes against the appropriations bills that contain his pork requests, etc.), they are really just that: rationalizations. For unconstitutional pork barrel spending. Period.
This is one issue where he needs to take a page from Jeff Flake's playbook.