Let’s not play games with each other. The most recent outrage was Ron Paul releasing statements saying those who opposed the Ground Zero Mosque were just motivated by “hate.”
Yes, he fly's off on rhetorical flights that I disagree with. He is a bit of a loose cannon. And, yes, Rand does seem a bit more grounded. But I still find it interesting that people who really, really disliked Ron are rooting for Rand now. I guess that's big-tent politics for you.
By the way I found McCains attempt to sell out America via Amnesty legislation 100 TIMES more offensive than Ron Paul's comments about the causes of the War in Iraq (which I disagreed with and ticked me off. But still there is a difference between saying something stupid and ACTING stupid, with malace, over and over and over again like McLame.) I found his eagerness to make up with Vietnam without an accounting of our war MIAs less than honorable. I found his constant flirtation with being a turn-coat less than inspiring. Ron Paul vs. McCain - I'll take Ron's sometimes off beat views on military issues over McCain's sellout program.
I found Huckabee's entire Elmer-Gantry-cum-Hughy-Long Huckster Socialism OFFENSIVE to the bottom of my bones. Then, the Huckster being a liberal idiot at heart paroled (unneccesarily, ala Willie Horton) a vicious black killer. His action resulted directly in the shooting death of FOUR wonderful Police Officers right by my home here in SW Washington. So he can the Huckster can GO TO HELL as far as I'm concerned.
I'll take Ron Paul's delivery of 10,000 babies over Mitt Romney's support for aborting that many. Now that is REALLY offensive to me. But, I'm not a Mormon. In my Christian religion it's a mortal sin to support baby killing, so while I will judge not, I will say were I he I'd be a lot more worried about going to Hell and a lot less concerned with winning the GOP nomination.
By all means, lets not play games. Ron's got issues, but he was far from being the worst candidate in the GOP field last year. (He wasn't the best, either.) But he was treated as a pariah by a lot of people here and on talk radio. Why? I guess to a Medved, Hewitt, Hanity or Prager failing to march in lockstep with the beat of the War On Terror is a bigger deal than anmesty, abortion, profulgate spending or cop killers running the streets. It's some wonderful movement with really consistant leaders we've got going here, I tell 'ya ....