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She says he is for freedom, yet she fails to recognize the validity of the line “freedom isn’t free”. Wonder what he would have done in WWII? Paul has no idea of the concept of foreign policy.

We’d all like to see the IRS go away.

He has a few good ideas, but then goes off the cliff. The man is not a serious contender. Those that support him demonstrate their lack of knowledge about the way things work.

Paul is not a Republican. He is a Libertarian. Therefore his running as a Republican is a fraud. He will not be the nominee. He is only in this to garner the money.

He is only in this to garner the money.

I'm afraid this is one politician whom you cannot question their integrity and motivation. I say this because Paul has lived an ideologically impeccable life. As a physician he didn't accept Medicaid or Medicare (socialized programs), he treated those patients for free. He didn't accept government loans for the 3 of his children that went through medical school. He gives back a portion of his congressional 'office funds' each year because he thinks the funding is too extravagant. He will not take part in the lucrative congressional pensions plan because he feels it is unconstitutional (it is!). He's passed up tens of thousands, if not more, in $$$ out of principle. As Tom Delay said:

"I've known Ron a very, very long time -- I like to think of Ron Paul as 'The Conscience,'" DeLay said. "You've always got to have a conscience."

So, disagree with him all you'd like, but he surely believes and lives what he preaches and is not 'in it for the money'. Such a spurious charge is uncalled for.

fails to recognize the validity of the line “freedom isn’t free”.

You're right, it isn't. That's why we need to protect our borders - something the neocons (and G.W. Bush) oppose. I'm very skeptical that they - the neocons - really care about our domestic security. If they did, they'd want secure borders - as Ron Paul does. They're more interested in fighting wars, for their own agenda, in the Middle East. That's like leaving your house in the suburbs and going downtown to rumble with a street gang, while leaving your front and back door unlocked and open. It's a very strange way to protect your home.

Same old, same old....

‘Wonder what he would have done in WWII?’

Probably the same as Taft....

http://hnn.us/articles/1569.html
Isolationism Strikes Again
By Ronald Radosh

...”To the isolationists, Franklin D. Roosevelt was not a democratically elected President, but a virtual dictator, who if the U.S. went to war, as Senator Robert A. Taft put it, would become “a complete dictator over the lives and property of our citizens.” Like the left today, Taft claimed that the President was presiding over a state that allegedly had become fascist, and in which the President showed “a complete lack of regard for the rights of Congress,” and in which he was making policy “in violation of the people’s will.”

Seems Americans are suffering from Historical Amnesia. -gris

Paul is not a Republican. He is a Libertarian.

A truly moronic comment. His political philosophy is libertarian, but is a member of the Republican party. He was the Libertarian party candidate for president in '88, but that was after he served several terms as a Republican. He has a 20 year track record as a Republican congressman, and only one failed election as a Libertarian.

The Republican party has lots of factions. Social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, paleo conservatives, neo conservatives, moderates, libertarians, Rockefeller republicans, and even that most strange breed - Log Cabin republicans. For the party to regain Congress, and hopefully retain the presidency, none should be shown the door.