[Windflier]

Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts?

[Thunder90]

Crossover Dems who hate Obama.

[svcw]

He is a nut, they are nuts. My Dad always said nuts like being in the same bowl at the dinner table. I used to think he was strange but I am beginning to think he was correct.

[ThomasThomas]

Birds of a feather.

[golux]

I am not a Ron Paul fan, per se, in part because I believe Israel deserves favorist treatment, but the answer to your question is simple.

Ron Paul is “crazy” and supported by “crazies” because WE as a nation have in fact become “crazy.” We are SO FAR from the Founders’ guiding principles that almost any path - even if it is a path which should return us to those principles - seems to lead to darkness.

[Mycroft Holmes]

Most of them are young, earnest and in search of simple solutions to complex problems. RP’s brand of libertarian freedom appeals to the sex/drugs/rock-roll crowd (not that there is anything wrong with that). I wish Gary Johnson (the sane RP) would be getting some air time, but it looks like the enemy-media is going to cram either Newt or Mitt down our throats. Relax and enjoy it.

[Boogieman]

They must recognize a kindred spirit in Ron.

[samantha]

It is the legalization of Drugs, they are stoners and also do not want to ever be drafted, They are anti war.

[ozzymandus]

Who else but a nut would support Paul?

[Ronin]

Well, ya see, it’s really kinda simple. Lunatics like to support other lunatics, but in today’s political environment it’s a bit hard to decide who the real lunatic is.

However, since most people agree that Ron Paul is a lunatic, and say so, all the other lunatics figure he’s got to be the guy to support.

Glad to help. I accept pay-pal, or you can pay in Fed-credits or Gold Pressed Latinum. No checks.

[BigSkyFreeper]

If you call abiding by the Constitution and everything It stands for “crazy”, then you can call me crazy too. I don’t agree with his stance on Israel, but everything else he’s been saying is no different than what most Conservatives believe and that’s basically smaller, less intrusive government, less taxes, a strong and secure border, a government that abides by the Constitution rather than ignores it. He’s a man who is pro-life, pro-God, pro-Second Amendment. He’s more in line with the TEA Party than those who call themselves Republicans. What you will find with Ron Paul is that he’s consitent. I find it interesting that somehow all these Conservative ideas are now considered “crazy”.

[Lazlo in PA]

Why Do So Many Lunatics Support Ron Paul?

Just one word: Marijuana

[giotto]

Some of those “lunatics” also used to support Free Republic. The hostility toward this man who, more than any other member of Congress, has tried to adhere to the Constitution, has driven most of them away.

[campaignPete R-CT]

the flaw in the ronPaulista organization is that it is a personality cult. When 2016 comes around, who will the support? ronPaul will be older and dead or something.

Thankfully, it is unsustainable.

They like being terminally unique. They would feel very uncomfortable at a GOP victory party when they looked around the room and saw a bunch of people that were not true believers. It is easier to keep your movement pure if you always lose.

[goat granny]

I think of Ron Paul as that crazy old uncle that comes to family reunions and once in about every 5 years says something that makes sense...its usually just by accident. The rest of the time he lives in someone’s attic....LOL

[logician2u]

Why do so many wackos and outright lunatics support Ron Paul?

Saying so does not make it so.

[MacMattico]

I could almost take the nuttiness. But I'm starting to see a little senility and hard of hearing at times. People might not notice it but he acts like my long passed on Grandfather that leans forward and puts his hand up to his ear to try and hear, and as with my Grandfather, to give himself more time to figure out what people were talking about. I don't know if you can see him doing this in any of the debate clips but I've watched all of the debates and I know he did it more in the first, less later on (probably advised not to do it.) I need a President with clear hearing and thinking on his toes.

Sec of Def: “Sir, we're being attacked.”

Ron Paul: “ No, I don't want a Big Mac”.

Just like Gramps.

[hosepipe]

[ Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts? ]

Ron Paul wants the federal government to stop doing most of what they do..

Anybody with sense wants some of that to happen as well.. just not all of it..

Of course, there are many conservatives that are not really conservatives..
some libertarians are also not anarchists.. most of them..

[Gene Eric]

His views on FP and “the war on drugs” are understandably controversial. That aside, his remaining domestic positions are often spot on.

[SaxxonWoods]

Windflier wrote:
“Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts?”

Paul has two support bases, both very small:

The mainly younger group likes his combination of pacifist foreign policy and willingness to legalize drugs. They ignore his fiscal policies, assuming they’ll worry about those later.

The other group tends to be older and garden-variety libertarian. They like the fiscal policies and the posturing.

Together they don’t make up enough of the electorate to matter. But somebody had to take over for Harold Stassen.

[RDAardvark]

Just what is it about Ron Paul that attracts these nuts?

Embracing the Alex Jones/paranoid nutcase market sure doesn't keep the crazies away.