I read with interest Dana Milbank’s recent column in which he criticized the blatant “untruths,” to put it kindly, of President Obama, Mitt Romney and ex-president George Bush, putting it down as pretty much “politics as usual” (“Romney’s pants on fire habits are especially disappointing,” April 9).

You know, all politicians lie and American citizens know it and accept it as a necessary evil in the process of electing our representatives.

But all politicians do not lie, and not all Americans tolerate lies.

Witness the thousands upon thousands of Ron Paul supporters who attend his rallies and strive to keep our elections honest in their support of his ideas and philosophy of individual freedom as guaranteed in the Constitution.

For the 30-plus years that Ron Paul has served in Congress and now as a candidate for president, he has consistently persisted in “telling it as it is,” often to the discomfort of his colleagues, and not following the party line.

Truth is often difficult to accept. It makes us uncomfortable. As Scarlet O’Hara said in “Gone With the Wind,” “I’ll think about that tomorrow.”

Well, that tomorrow will have to be dealt with by our children and grandchildren, saddled with trillions of crushing debt, a crumbling infrastructure and worse, the horror of a World War III.

Ron Paul is consistent. He has held the same values for 30 years, values that are not like his competitors’, whose promises today are gone with the wind tomorrow.

Bruce Bohrmann is a resident of Yarmouth.

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