Ron Paul is one of the few--the very few--men in Washington, who gives rational reasons for every stand he takes; one of the very few men in public life, who appeals to reason not slogans and shibboleths. When you suggest that his supporters are a cult, you allow rhetoric to stultify your own reasoning ability.
Ron Paul is no more to be put down, because on one issue he appears with "Liberals," who happen to agree with him on that issue, than is George Bush to be put down, because he has repeatedly appeared together with Tony Blair, Bill Clinton's Fabian Socialist counterpart from great Britain. Dennis Kucinich may be a bit of a whack job, I will grant you. Tony Blair is something very much more sinister, if your purpose is to preserve the free Society won a Yorktown.
And who but a "cultist," would even try to justify the votes of the majority of our party--the very embarrassing votes by a majority of our party--on the Medicare Prescription Drug Program, on the "No Child Left Behind," imposition of more Bureaucracy on educational systems, already terribly compromised by a lack of the most basic common sense; or the silence of so many in our party at the laughable idea that you can impose Freedom on others, by forcing them to adopt your political norms?
Ron Paul is a reasoning man. You may disagree with him on this or that issue; but you are not likely to find his better among any of those whom you would suggest are outside what you imagine to be a "Cult."
William Flax
So you agree with Ron Paul that Gitmo should be shut down and our soldiers brought home?