Common Sense isn't so common anymore is it??

I have been doing a lot of research lately, and a lot of reading comes with that. I must say that I am very ticked off at this political race and what it has become. I have no more answers than I did 4yrs ago, and I sure as hell am not happy about how the media portrays this one person, as if he is the 'Only' person running for office.

Words from Robert Taft: "When I say liberty I do not simply mean what is referred to as "free Enterprise" I man liberty of the individual to THINK his own thoughts an live his own life as he desires to think and to live; the liberty of the family to decide how they wish to live, what they want to wat for breakfast and for dinner, and how they wish to spend their time; liberty of a man to develop his ideas and get other people to teach those ideas, if he can convince them that they have some value to the world; liberty of every local community to decide how its children shall be educated, how its local services shall be run, and who its local leaders shall be; liberty of a man to choose his own occupation, and liberty of a man to run his own business as he thinks it ought to be run, as long as does not interfere with the right of other people to do the same thing"

I ran across this, and thought dang, this is common sense..yet I don't hear anyone talking about that..are we so blind that we are missing the importance once again of our history? Our Founding Fathers {Which I have spoke of many of times on my blogs} gave us advise time and time again, is there some reason we are ignoring that?
What about the Constitution? What about how the power of the executive branch and how the power has far expanded beyond what The Framer of the Constitution thought of? It was a matter of making a society after all..so we were not ruled by Kings and a matter of limit the federal government control.
I am just a simple American who is looking at the common sense of the history that is out there and see that even the media wants to go ga-ga over someone running for president, instead of asking the common sense questions.