SOUTHERN ARIZONA (SGT NEWS) - Ron Paul continues to be shunned in the national debates, ignored by national media and largely underestimated by America’s political talking heads, but the American Conservative Magazine has taken note that Paul is the only candidate that has “put forth a diagnosis of America’s current ills and has a vision to turn the country off its misguided course.”

The magazine notes how closely the other candidates’ policies match each others and how Iraq war enthusiasts support a long-term and expensive presence of military forces in lands overseas, primarily Iraq. “All speak as if it is America’s right and duty to station its armed forces over much of the world,” the magazine said, speaking about the largely embraced theory made possible by “neoconservative paranoia”.

“He is the one candidate who sees how the realities of world power have shifted since the 1990s, the one who recognizes that the time of unilateral American hegemony is over—and can’t be maintained even if it was in our interest to do so.”

ACM continued by acknowledging Paul is the only candidate who recognizes the federal government of the United States is becoming a greater threat to freedom and liberty to the American people than despotic dictators overseas.

“By speaking about the benefits of smaller government and limited executive power, he has introduced a generation of young Americans to a more traditional and true style of conservatism—to the movement and the country’s benefit.”

Paul sounds the alarm at every opportunity about our crumbling dollar and the Federal Reserve’s direct responsibility in the devaluation. The magazine also notes Paul realized and publicized the direct danger involved in embracing free-trade deals like NAFTA and CAFTA long before it has now become an issue.

“Dr. No,” as the Texas Representative is known, takes pride in the number of wasteful spending and unconstitutional pieces of legislation that he has voted against. “Anyone combing through his lengthy record will find many lone stands and idealistic statements that ignore the maxim that politics is the art of the possible.”

The magazine admits, though, that Ron Paul has a significant uphill battle in front of him. “We are under no illusion that he has much chance of winning the GOP nomination this election cycle.”

“This campaign sends a signal to both parties that a significant number of Americans value their country’s great Constitution, that many conservatives reject wiretaps, waterboarding, and senseless wars. There is far more realism in Paul’s analysis than can be found in those Republicans who believe that Washington’s policy of borrowing billions from China to pay for the occupation of a growing number of countries is desirable, much less sustainable.”