Ron Paul was my congressman, so I liked him. I never supported him for president. He just does not have the people skills a president needs. Plus there was that very large “kook” factor you mentioned. President’s need to be solid, not kooky. While I understand his reasons and they have some merit, his blame the USA for the rise of radical Islam was IHMO very short sighted and ignored the fact that the USA was fighting for it’s life in the cold war. However he was very very good on domestic/monetary policy. If the right ever expects to have power again then we need to make peace with the libertarian wing of the right. Please notice the little “l” in libertarian so as NOT to confuse that with the total nut jobs in the Libertarian Party which no conservative would have anything to do with.
Nothing for me to disagree with in that post. ;-)