I'll even wait patiently until 2020, if he needs more time to gear up and find the right campaign personnel. His party affiliation, you ask? Why, a new party of course. One which America desperately needs right now: the Reason Party.
OK, fine, he probably needs at least five or six years to get a presidential campaign and a new political party off the ground, but he is a gifted public speaker and he's right on so many issues. I'd even go so far as to say that the one major pillar of the Reason Party platform should be to revoke religion's tax exemption. That's right, no more mega churches soaking up vast stretches of valuable land that would otherwise contribute to the absurdly overburdened tax base. At a time when all government budgets are strapped — local, state, and federal — it is a stance that could influence voters.
Here's Sean explaining in his relentless, uber-rational, bulldog, rapid-fire way how blatantly perverted the ministries in this country and their financial abuses have become.
And he can more than hold his own in a debate, as we found out when he challenged Sam Harris on gun control, and, if you ask me, flat out won. That, my dear blog readers, is not to be taken lightly. Though Sam is human and cannot be expected to get every last social issue right, he is nothing short of an intellectual titan, who has reduced religious opponents to pathetic piles of irrational rubble, and in my opinion is such a talented and eloquent writer he deserves the title of the modern-day Machiavelli. If Sean can go toe-to-toe with Sam, there's no politician he needs to fear. And he has held public office before as a state legislator in Maine.
Also, as the title of Sean's book makes plain and obvious, he's not afraid to target the right people in Washington.
But if you need more proof of Sean's public policy chops, here he is in Oklahoma last year calling out Inhofe on his climate change denial, among other unacceptable stances the confused Senator takes.
I went to the Reason Rally over 2 years ago (man, where the hell does the time go?), and uploaded the great speech he gave there about becoming more involved in secular activism.
I take a little bit of pride in the fact that richarddawkins.net chose to link to my upload of Lawrence Krauss' Reason Rally talk, though the site opted for someone else's upload of Sean's speech, but I digress.
I say all of us in the atheist/rationalist/skeptic/secular communities, or even the public at large, make Sean Faircloth a write-in vote in 2016 and cross our fingers that he gets the message. Simply put, it is well past time an outspoken atheist ran this country.
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