How does this crazy old coot get the support he does? Is it the left giving him support just to make it look like the right is crazy?
Every election cycle there is a good 7% diehard libertarian whacko vote. A large percentage of these are single issue voters who want drugs legalized.
A lot of the rest are either liberals dissatisfied with Obama or republicans so fed up with the party they don't care where Paul is coming from.
Paul is right on budget and taxes in the same sense that a stopped clock is right twice a day.
But an average seven year old has a better grasp on foreign policy than Ron Paul.