You’re also wrong with your timeline about tea parties.
People here like the tea parties, like constitutional government, like limited government. They don’t think that Ron Paul deserves 100% of the credit for those ideas. And they don’t like the foreign policy ideas.
Ron Paul is not the only one talking about limited government, but he is the only one with a foreign policy outside the conservative mainstream. To people here, he’s more notable for his foreign policy than his limited constitutional government message.
Who else in Washington has talked about restoring the truly free market by ending the FED and going back to gold and silver (the only true money said the Founding Fathers)? Who else has defined their entire political policy by the Constitution and what the Founders originally intended for America? Dr. Paul is the only logical choice. I hate his foreign policy too but there are bigger issues at stake. We are witnessing America turn into the USSR. Taxes are going up. Illegals are pouring into America at an alarming rate and so are muslims. Dr. Paul is also for sealing up the border so think about that. Americans have lost their sense of pride in America. They want to see ppl like themselves in the white house not a closeted muslim marxist. They want the Constitution brought back to life and truly free market Capitalism brought back to life. Tell me who else will give them that?