Honestly I have not detailedly looked into each canidate, but I based upon what I did read mitt romney ( sorry I cant spell) or ron paul would be good in office
Since you've narrowed it down and haven't had time to look into it further, I'll offer some contrasts between the two candidates you're choosing between.
Mitt Romney has openly supported military action against Iran, just like most of the Republican party and Democratic party. He has a history of changing his policy on various topics when he finds it to be unpopular amongst his likely voters - a bad habit of his that has been very well publicized since before the 2008 election when he ran for President. He thinks the government should regulate the traditionally religious practice of marriage, and that it should be between a man and a woman. That might sound reasonable to you, but I'll tell you Dr. Paul's view on that here shortly.
Dr. Ron Paul does not support military action against Iran, his view being that it's just another undeclared, never-ending, and unwinnable war as we are still carrying out in Afghanistan and Iraq. Besides these wars being unconstitutional, he thinks they will cost too much money. As for his voting record, he has been in and out of Congress for about 30 years and has always voted against illegitimate wars, voted against government spending increases, voted to lower taxes at every opportunity, and voted against allowing the Federal government to have more power than what is allowed by the Constitution. His view on marriage? He understands that the Constitution does not give the government the authority to regulate marriage, and therefore he would work to get the government out of the practice, and return it to the people at large to decide where, how, and who they want to marry. If untraditional organizations popped up that performed gay marriages, then so be it, gay people can get married if they want. Ron Paul doesn't think it's any of the government's business who is married or not.
Basically what I'm saying is that Mitt Romney supports basically the same ideas that most Republicans and Democrats already support, the main one being more government spending on illegitimate wars. Dr. Paul is the only real pro-liberty, economically sensible Presidential candidate this country has seen for decades. I support him, but I support him because I support the ideas of personal freedom, a government with limited powers to control my life, and responsible financial habits. A lot of people criticize the guy for not being as presentable as the others, and not being the smoothest public speaker, but I think he's just got too much knowledge trying to exit his mouth at one time.
That's a pretty basic jist of it. There are a lot of issues, but Ron Paul's stance on the issues are always summed up by following the Constitution. He belongs to a very interesting school of economic theory called Austrian economics, which is worth a lookup at the
Ludwig von Mises Institute. The
CATO Institute is another organization promoting personal and economic freedom. Those two organizations have areas on their website that suggest a lot of good books on the subject that cover everything from the basics of the economy and liberty to complex economic stuff that I don't have time to sit and read. Probably the best place to go for news about Ron Paul is a fan site called
Daily Paul which has a fan forum, and updates the news blog very often with interesting articles and videos of Dr. Paul's speeches from Congress or rallies or TV shows or wherever he might be.
I don't think Mitt Romney has much of a fan presence online, or Institutions that he is a member of and contributes to as Paul does with Mises and CATO. Mitt doesn't get many donations from individual supporters like you and I, either - he gets the majority of his campaign money from banks that benefited from the bailouts, like Goldman Sachs, whom he has close business ties to. Ron Paul doesn't have business ties - he gets most of his money, and a fair amount at that, from individual donors. The
New York Times has a thing that shows how much money candidates have raised, where they got it from, and in what denominations. About 56% of Paul's money is raised through donations of $200 or less, while 60% of Romney's money is raised in donations of $2,500. Do you have $2,500 laying around to donate to a candidate? I sure don't. But Romney's millionaire friends at Goldman Sachs do. So far I've only been able to donate $20.12 to Ron Paul, which is a cute option on their donation website.
