[George W. Bush]

Not a Ron Paul supporter, but I like him in the mix at this point (too much an isolationist). However, I feel adds to the debate about the role of the federal government.

Exactly. We have a number of folks just like you on the RP pinglist. They want their conservative party back, the party of Reagan and Gingrich. Small-government. Liberty, not a nanny state. States' rights that are more than a historical curiosity, where we leave the money and the power in the states where it belongs.

We should be glad he is in the field and is likely to be there through the fall. We have the money. And in the August 20 ABC/Brookings debate at University of Nevada-Reno, Ron Paul is invited along with the Big Three (FDT will be invited if he declares). The other second-tier candidates are excluded. Actually, they're expected to drop out after Ames straw poll.

So Ron Paul is likely to be the only candidate left in the debates who champions small-government and liberty. I don't get the hysteria from the Paul-trolls over this. I suspect they're liberals and don't realize it. We have a lot of Bush-era FReepers that have deceived themselves this way. They're just garden-variety partisans, not conservatives.

[trisham]

That’s a very low blow, and unworthy of you.

[Petronski]

We should be glad he is in the field and is likely to be there through the fall. We have the money.

It's only worthless fiat money.