Paul's critics can't attack Paul's record or his integrity, and the guilt-by-association smears didn't work. They are now trying to get him into a George Allen/Trent Lott situation to apologize profusely over beliefs he doesn't believe in to emasculate him in the eyes of voters.
Ron Paul is a traitor, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the United States in wartime. He’s a latter-day Copperhead. If we weren’t encumbered by so many rules and so much legalism, the proper could would be to follow that Lincoln did to Clement Vallandigham and exile Paul to Iran.
In a truly ideal world, we could prick down his name and those of his supporters (since they can cough up $20 Million) on a list along the model of the Triumvirate but, alas, we can’t all have everything we want.