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Dean, I don’t think you’re going to find many Ron Paul fans around here.  Some, but not many.  His isolationist views on foreign policy and pandering to 9/11 truthers turn off most of us, and his archaic support of the worthless gold standard (along with his nutty conspiracy theories about the Fed) pretty much take care of the rest.

There’s a few Paulbots around here, but not many.  Most of us are interested in serious candidates.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Most of us are interested in serious candidates.

I thought you supported Fred Thompson

About half of what Ron Paul says indicate that he needs to have his psychiatrist adjust his meds.  Especially his foreign policy stuff and his 9-11 stuff.  His only real hope is to appeal to a bunch of nutcase Truthers that for some reason aren’t interested in what the guys at Kos and DU have to say.

On the domestic front, about half of his ideas are right on, but as you will find with most “true Libertarians” their ideas are so idealistic that there is no real practical application possible.

I flirted with being an actual Libertarian for a while, even registered as one.  Most of that was being pissed off at the “Evangelical Wing” of the party that supports expanded Federal Government powers like monitoring the music industry, the FCC policing radio and TV, and using the Federal Government to ban abortion as opposed to overturning Roe and returning it to the states themselves.  I am a 10th Amendment guy.  But in the end, I support about 50-75% of their positions, but the other half to a quarter are so loony and off the wall that I want to run.  Plus the party is based on an extremely appealing intellectual movement based on guys like Friedman that I follow, but the implementation and the party members are primarily Gun nuts, Pot head college kids that want Mary Jane legal, and anti-social weirdos.

Kinda what I think of Paul summed up right there.  He fits right in with the LP.  Just that I abandoned the LP solely because guys like Ron Paul fit right in there.