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For my son, the Aggie freshman, the war is not his biggest issue. I'm not really sure that he is in total agreement with Paul on the war in Iraq (I know that I am not in total agreement).

For my son and his crowd, what has them so energized is to hear someone take a clear libertarian position on the role of government. When Ron Paul is asked by Jay Leno if he is serious about getting rid of the IRS and social security and Pual clearly and amiably says "Yes!!", these guys go wild.

I think that social security may be the biggest issue to my son. The thought that at age 18 he will pay increasingly higher amounts of the fruits of his labor for absolutely nothing drives him crazy. Ron Paul doesn't want to "fix" social security, he wants to shut it down.

That sort of thing, just as much or more than the war, is what motivates the younger generation about Ron Paul. And that's why these mindless attacks on Ron Paul are alienating this group. When I told my son that the Republicans were promoting a challenger in Paul's congressional race, he was first incredulous and then livid.

Yeah, its definitely a big tent. His stance on War isn’t the selling point for me frankly, it’s just what i tend to have to address when talking to conservatives. If Paul wanted to continue business as usual in Iraq and the WOT then most freepers wouldn’t be very divided over their support or lack of support, the dude’s a conservative icon on the issues, and has the best voting record in congress on conservative values.(fiscally at least, so we can dodge the war issue)

I’d argue that if he were pro-war he’d lose though. So in my view, your either looking at hillary prosecuting the remainder of the war(and god knows what that will amount to), or else Paul getting us out of it.(Which i prefer to what i imagine hillary will do to the american people under the guise of war)

I don’t believe a prowar candidate(especially giuliani) can beat hillary. It kind of puts you in a tough spot.

On the positive side. Im an austrian economist, so is paul.
On all the non-foreign policy issues Paul’s not only in the right camp, he’s vocal and sincere about it. Does anyone here really believe a vote for giuliani is a vote for small government?

He’s also a man of integrity, he’s an obgyn, he’s prolife, hes pro second ammendment.

So he’s got me on the social issues and hes got me on the fiscal issues. The dollar is trading under the canadian dollar, how sad is that?