I consider him to be more of a conservative libertarian.
The deeper we go into the republican-democrat abyss, the wars, health care, cap and trade, the FED, the smarter Ron Paul seems to me. I used to think that his foreign policy was in the tinfoil hat realm but the longer the wars last I now believe he is absolutely correct. This after having spent 24 years in the Navy 1960/1984 in the go to war mode.