That he has been elected, and re-elected in an agricultural district while telling farmers he would NEVER vote for subsidies, proves that integrity still counts.

Why not get off your high horse and support the candidate who at least has a chance to make it. Printing articles about how he’s not going to win is not only unproductive, but completely useless because you don’t have a better choice in mind.

I used to consider myself Libertarian, but that party just doesn’t get it that life isn’t black and white. Sometimes you’ll have to accept “close enough” over “exactly”.

http://www.politics1.com/index.htm
Interestingly, 48% of Republican respondents said they favored “a withdrawal of all United States military from Iraq within the next six months” — versus 37% opposed the idea. By contrast, Democrats favored withdrawal by a 64-9 margin. These pro-withdrawal numbers could bode ill in Iowa for candidates in both parties who either are pro-surge or waffle on Iraq.

You are right, on the surface Mr. Paul doesn’t have much of a chance, but if there is a ground swell of support for him much in the same fashion as for Howard Dean look out, because Mr. Paul is a far better communicator than Mr. Dean and from an issue standpoint there is a lot to like about him from both the right and the left (granted there are some things that both the right and left don’t like as well).

I think his chaces all hinge on him getting that iniital ground swell of support fairly early that may propel him to the forefront. Once he is there he may not relinquish the frontrunner status. It is a longshot but definitely possible.

Sometimes the competitor without a snowball’s chance in Texas does win. 8-)

The republican voters have been trained to respond to all the non-issues that Paul doesn’t want to waste his time with, I can’t imagine him spitting out sound bites that will appease the typical red stater on gays, abortion, the war on terra, evil mexicans, Iran, etc.

But, that said, I’d vote for him and I’m a farther left than Nancy Pelosi Democrat – based on what I’ve read so far…

Ron Paul for President – no war with Iraq/n, no Federal Reserve, legalize pot, getting the govt off the backs of the people instead of off the backs of corporations – holy crapple this starting to sound like what the founders intended – sounds good so far.

This is a theory I have – that political leanings are not a flat line left/right but reall more of a loop and when you go way left or way right you end up in basically the same place – a non-authoritarian place with fewer differences from each other than from those people who congregate near the status-quo maintaining center.