This video has rolled around the interwebs since the end of November, so you may have already seen it. Although it got buried by the media, like nearly everything Ron Paul does, so maybe you haven’t. While you probably caught the video of some 99 percenters accosting Michelle Bachman (which was hilarious) you might have missed this one of occupy protesters having a go at Dr. Paul.

After a solid “Mic check” and a short declaration from protesters about the ills of the one percent, Ron Paul stepped up to the podium and returned a cheerful, “Do you feel better?”

He then goes on to let protesters know that he’s been rallying against the 1% since they were just a twinkle in their parent’s eyes. And Paul has been. While you were going to high school, this guy was building a voting record that has been anti-fed, anti-war and anti-war-on-drugs. He’s been doing this for over thirty years, so this means you classes 1978-2011. Maybe it’s just me, but he kinda sounds like our guy.

Occupiers, this is what I’m here to ask you… What about Ron Paul? Sure, he got roped into being aligned with the tea party, but he admits that those people kinda freak him out. Okay, so he’s running on the republican ticket, but are we really so attached to those labels that we can’t see that Paul is a different kind of politician altogether.

This is not to say that I”m ready to hop on Paul’s bandwagon, but you’d have to completely ignore the man in order to miss the fact that he’s not like anyone else running for president these days. And that’s exactly what the media’s doing to Ron Paul. He’s getting a straight up cold shoulder. Remember when they did that to the occupy movement? Perhaps we have more in common with Ron Paul then we think.

Sure, his ideas are mainly theoretical. We haven’t seen a libertarian society in centuries. But what’s wrong with a little experimenting. We’re the first ones to prattle on about our broken system, so why are we so adverse to throwing it out. Better yet, Paul isn’t asking us to throw it out. He wants us to recycle it and make it something new, by the people, for the people… You know. He’s really into that whole constitution thing.

So what do you think about Ron Paul? Would you be willing to give him a shot at breaking down the system?