“Rand seems mostly alright so far. The problem is his Dad is a nut and his Dad’s paultard followers are not people I’d want to be associated with.”
I agree with that. Ron Paul-ites tend to be nutbags and truthers. So far though his son is much more reasonable about a lot of things and judging by the reaction at antiwar.com, he is scaring the nutbags away.
That's basically the way I see. I am willing to give Rand a lot of leeway. I think he is trying to unite traditional conservatives and the more libertarianish conservatives - and that is a very good thing if it can be done.