Agree 100%. I’m a life-long Republican, but the party is by no means infallible. I’d much rather listen to Ron Paul and disagree intensely with certain of his positions than listen to a guy like Anuzis tell me who I should not be able to hear in a debate.
Anuzis retracted his bid to remove Paul from future debates.
I wrote the Paul campaign asking them to tone down the wacky foreign policy stuff and start discussing more of the right-on domestic policy ideas.
If he campaigns against Internet regulation, for instance, he can badly hurt McCain. Both political parties have thrown the first amendment out the window when it comes to their desire (corporate desire) to bring the Internet to heel. Don’t expect News Corporation or Time Warner to support a candidate who wants to keep the Internet free.
Regarding the Libertarians: they have long since been taken over by feminist and gay monetary contributions.
In the same way that the Libertarians abandoned true libertarian principles (by putting up gay rainbows on their websites) Ron Paul’s anti-war remarks could end up getting him a lot of left-wing money that would cause him to abandon all trace of conservatism on other issues.
He would then become an idiotic demigogue like Howard Dean.
That is why, despite disagreeing with Paul on the WOT, I would want true conservatives to influence him and let him have his say as a conservative. His domestic policies could become part of the next president’s policy.