I unfortunately came across the printed vesion of today’s front page article on the republican primary and was disturbed to see that Congressman Ron Paul’s key views were severely misrepresented. While I have come to expect this nations major media organizations to disrespect this candidate, it appals me that a student paper would follow suit.
Given the blatant attempts by the media to ignore or down play Ron Paul’s campaign, I can not sit quietly and observe the same happening in the student paper regardless of whether it was an accident or intentional.

My first issue was his placement on the page, given that he has been shown in numerous polls to be neck and neck with Romney in national polls and actually beats all the republican candidates when pitted against Obama. Does it not seem odd that yet again Romney appears on top of the page and Ron Paul is at the bottom below two candidates that have been showing much lower success than the Congressman?

Secondly the listing of his key views far discredits what the Congressman’s views are, he represents a cause to reduce the size of the governement, balance the budget ( the ONLY candidate to propose an actual plan to make this happen), bring ALL of our troops home from around the world and end the world police stance that the US has held for the past several decades. Not to mention multiple other causes. Your listing of “legalizing marijuana” as his number one key issue is disgusting, he wants to end the war on drugs because it is a massive expenditure that results in no forward motion and cripples our economy and is an unjust and prejudice system. To say that it is the Congressman’s key issue downplays and discredits what the only honest politician in politics today stands for.

My third issue is your numbering of delgate counts, I am very curious to know where you got your numbers from and whetheryou did any significant research at all into the material you pasted onto the front page of a student paper.

My questions to you are how much did you actually research this material and how much do you understand the present political climate and what is going on in this country and in the world. For instance are you aware that the Congressman’s strongest supports and largest donors are the men and women in our military. In direct opposition to the article, Paul’s largest following comes for the college aged population and that record numbers of our generation of notoriously low voting percentages are seeing a dramatic increase as a result of Paul’s campaign?

Last time I checked there were 5 GOP candidates! Yet, I cannot blame you for not knowing this. 92% of Americans do not know the name BUDDY ROEMER! Yet, he is the only candidate, democrat or republican, that is saying anything different.

BUDDY ROEMER has been continually shut out of ever national debate, every national broadcast, every national headline. The media is bought and sold by the same people who buy and sell our politicans!

Many may not care about the “Occupy Wallstreet Movement” but they have some very intelligent things to say about the current state our political system.

We need to get the corporate money out of politics. We need to start listening and talking about this man: BUDDY ROEMER! A man, who unlike Obama, or Romney, or Santorum, really wants to change things! Those men are in it for the greed and power. Buddy is it this race for our future. For America’s future.

I just wish our own newspaper would have the moral courage the put Buddy Roemer’s name and picture on the front page!

Mitt is the man for Michigan! It’s going to be so great to have a President who actually cares about Michigan.