Ron Paul has a knack for asking inconvenient questions.
I like the guy - right where he is. Better that he's on the outside tossing bombs, than on the inside and captured by the process.
Actually, we need more politicians who have the same basic small-government philosophy & integrity as Ron Paul, but who bring different strengths to the table. RP is more like the college professor who produces students who'll do great things, rather than the guy who will go the distance himself.
And we are beginning to get that -- Libertarians, Campaign for Liberty, libertarian Republicans and Constitutionalists numbers are growing and coalescing -- much to the chagrin of big-government neocon Republicans who still have the money and power, but not the voters anymore.
Neocons are losing a voter base who aren't coming back and they are getting scared. Expect a populist candidate out of the necons who is light on knowledge, and well though-out political positions, but who voters just love, to act as a stalking horse to try and bring those who've left the traditional GOP "back home to daddy". Problem is that by the time that happens, there isn't going to be much of a necon home to come home to in the GOP.