He keeps doing it, so perhaps if you look for threads about him, some will pop up, as I know that there were some posted here, not all that long ago.
As to your final query...the answer is not just no, but HELL NO! Having him in a debate wastes valuable time, which more serious candidates could talk.
Paul is pro-leaglizing of illicit substances, antiwar, was for the GZ Mosque, and he will never be anything other than a KOOK and a joke, to the vast majority of Americans.His rapid supporters are a rag tag bunch and many of them are no more than hooligans, whose behavior, on '08, was highly objectionable and to some extent, violent.
“Articles about Paul’s PORK SCAM has been all over FR for years.”
Are the keywords ‘Ron Paul Pork Scam’ going to bring them up? I’ll have a look.
I’m using the word ‘debate’ more generally than I think it came across. I mean that while he’s campaigning, he issues statements, talks to people, is interviewed, which raises issues other candidates might not have thought they needed to address, but would, because in running against him they need to win by drawing as much of his support as possible. I didn’t mean in particular he’d be in a formal debate, and that was his contribution. But with that, as with the other things, it’s pretty easy to get another beer or whatever when he’s on, if that’s your preference.
That mosque issue near the Trade Center is problematic for me. I’ll find more on that and what he said. Many of those illicit substances were once licit, but people had enough self-control and less desire to escape reality for that to not be a problem. I don’t think it’s appropriate now to legalize, but in the future it might be. I think we have a long way to go before even considering that though. He’s a medical doctor, so his statements aren’t uninformed, but I’ll see if I can find those too. I do appreciate links and specific quotes though. I had heard of one of his supporters stepping on the neck of a semi-professional agitator at one of his meetings, but I haven’t heard anything else. What else was there?