Hearst Washington Bureau
Last week, Mitt Romney wowed conservatives at the Republican National Convention, but one Texas representative remains unimpressed.
Former presidential candidate Ron Paul, who was described by the master of ceremonies at his Tampa campaign rally last Sunday as a “clean boat in a sea of garbage,” still has not endorsed the Republican presidential candidate.
In an interview with Bloomberg, Paul even went so far as to say the Republican Party was not his party — and is, in many ways, irrelevant.
“I do not like politics at all. I think both parties are Keynesian economists, and support positions that I do not like,” said Paul.
Paul, who was a distant runner-up for the Republican nomination, called the former Massachusetts governor”s acceptance speech “upbeat,” “pro-American,” and acknowledged that the audience was won over, but said that he remains “very, very skeptical of hearing anything that will change the course of history.”
He even lambasted the GOP’s guest speaker Clint Eastwood for implying that Romney and his supporters were unhappy with current policies, but for failing to suggest any changes.
Paul said he thinks the current economic crisis is much worse than the one we faced in 2008, but that debt is a problem no one is willing to face and one that Romney and friends failed to address during the convention. “Hopefully [Romney] is right and he’s going to create all these jobs, but quite frankly, only the market creates jobs. Governments can’t and presidents don’t do it,” Paul said.
