There is no doubt that Ron has spoiled us, and for that I don't think I'll ever feel as passionate about a candidate as I do for him. I'll be as passionate for the movement sure, but not for a candidate. I'm afraid that next election cycle, if Ron doesn't win this year, that the ultimate irony will be that it'll be we the supporters and not Ron himself that will have to come down a bit from our high standards. No matter who his successor ends up being, he just won't be Ron. That person most likely will be more eloquent of a debater, might be more slick of a politician, but he won't have Ron's moral fiber, his economic genius, nor his consistency. That person most likely would have taken something from a lobbyist, would have voted for or proposed a unbalanced budget at some point, would gone against the constitution in some fashion that we'll look back and say "No way would Ron have done that." But alas, what will be will be. In my wildest dreams I could only hope that they measure up. Rand has his dad's last name sure, but Rand isn't half the man his old man is. It is what it is.
