Maybe he thinks that "77" is the new "70" --Reagan's age when he first took office. Apparently RP bikes 10 miles a day and is in excellent shape, for what that's worth -- but I also think that he's too old.
Listen, RP may not be the one, but unfortunately I don't see another single Republican out there who can rouse the people, rock the house, and beat Obama. At least right now, all the Republican leads in the polls -- Romney, Huck, Sarah -- I can't see standing a chance of stealing a single vote from Obama's base. There are a lot of disaffected Democrats and Independents, but they aren't going to jump ship for just anything "Republican" -- it's going to take somebody special -- an "un-Republican" Republican, in their mind. And I don't know who in the heck else that could be, unless it's another milquetoast RINO which would be even worse.
And, I would submit, if Ron Paul can actually steal even a single vote from Obama's base, that would prove he absolutely isn't the candidate that conservatives should get behind.
Ron Paul isn't going to win squat. He doesn't even want to win. All he wants to do is pee in the soup.
The word is "gadfly".
Then there's the tingling running up libertarian legs caused by Ron Paul, who announced Tuesday (4/26) he was forming a presidential exploratory committee.
I know this is going to really tick off the Paulistas in the TTP crowd, but Paul makes me ill. He is a cranky unsmiling old man with a hectoring voice like fingernails on a blackboard who has absolutely no desire to defend our country.
In all his years since being elected to Congress in 1996, he has not voted for a single Defense Authorization Bill, not one, not ever.
He is a Blame-America-First Libertarian in the mold of Murray Rothbard, the black flag anarchist founder of the Libertarian Party who never once in any dispute between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War took America's side - not once, not ever.
Here's confirmation. See if this doesn't turn your stomach as you watch Paul blame America for 9/11:
Yes, he's admired for his courageous advocacy of limited constitutional government, and rightly so. Yet he's so charmless and humorless in his advocacy with that whiny scratchy voice and looking like he's sucking lemons, he's a real turn-off for many who could be persuaded by someone actually friendly.
Worse, though, is the danger that his constitutionalism may be associated in the public's mind by an unwillingness to defend America and stand up to the enemies that are actively trying to destroy her.
Besides, he'll be 77 in 2012. It's time for him to give up his octogenarian candidacy and stop being libertarianism's Harold Stassen. Please, Ron, hand the baton to the next generation.