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Live Free or Die* - desi ishtyle

By: Santosh :+: Under: Brown in America, Politics
On: ⋅ December 13, 2007 ⋅  Email this post ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment
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Remember when we talked about most desis favoring Democrats??? (1, 2)

This guy is different. Vijay Boyapati, an ABD (Australian born/bred, in this case), is a Pauliac. Pauliacs for those of you not familiar with US politics, is the nickname for the small but rabid band of supporters of US Presidential candidate, Ron Paul.

From IndoLink:

Boyapati quit his job at Google to volunteer for libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul - whose political campaign many pundits have already written off as unwinnable.

The key here is unwinnable. If you haven’t heard of Ron Paul, you’re probably not alone. Many Americans haven’t heard of him either. At least not until he criticized American foreign policy during the GOP debate, earning him jeers from his own party members.

So why does Vijay, who recently became a US citizen, support Paul, admittedly a fringe candidate, who is ostracized by most within his political party?

“It was in the first Republican debate for the 2008 election. I was actually quite astounded that he existed. Not him, the person. But that there was a member of Congress with a consistent libertarian philosophy. As you know, democracy encourages special interests and favor-giving. That someone could be successful without partaking in those things is remarkable indeed.”

Among other things that attracted him to Ron Paul …….

Like many of Paul’s followers, Boyapati sees himself as more Libertarian than Republican.
Paul’s conservatism includes strident opposition to the Iraq war, reverence for the Constitution, contempt for the USA PATRIOT Act, a willingness to criticize evangelical Christians, a relatively hands-off social policy, and a position on taxes that essentially amounts to ending most of them. On the stump, he pummels America’s foreign policy in language that you won’t hear from any front-runner, Republican or Democrat, offering critiques of the “military industrial complex” and issuing warnings that America is being done in by its hubris.

So, Vijay quit a plum position at Google and took up campaigning for Ron Paul. Somewhere, the desi uncle fainted. Vijay joins S.R. “Macaca” Sidarth and Atul “Democrat Kingmaker” Nakasi, as major desi contributors for the 2008 US Presidential Elections.

* “Operation Live Free or Die” is a grassroots effort by Ron Paul supporters to get New Hampshire to nominate Ron Paul as GOP Presidential Candidate.

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