“I don’t agree with many of Ron Pauls positions, but the guy has balls and what you see is what you get.”
There is just no tactfull way to say this. Ron Paul is a bordline lunatic was occassional moments of lucidity. Don’t ever hold him up as an example to be admired. He is just a libertarian trying to disrupt the GOP.
I agree with your assesment of Paul, he is nuts, but if he was trying to screw with the repubs, he would be spinning his themes to appeal to the republican base, but we all know who he is, so he (Paul ) is not hiding anything and his positons in the polls reflects this.
You say that like it is a bad thing.