So instead of settling, you plan to vote for a loon instead? You plan to vote for a guy who thinks gender troubled traitor Bradley Manning is a patriot and a hero? Do you believe we still need to "find the truth" about 9-11 because the US government may have been behind it? Do you think Bush was happy about 9-11 because it gave him an excuse to attack Iraq? Are you staying up late at night quivering in your boots about Bilderberg Group conspiracies?
Sorry, no one is smearing Paul. Just the opposite actually, he's been given a free pass for far too long. RP's problem is that he is a conspiracy nut with naive isolationist foreign and defense policy views. Does he have some good things to say about domestic economic issues? Yup. Unfortunately with Paul, the REALLY bad ideas and conspiratorial thinking are just too nutty and dangerous to ever consider voting for him.
Many years ago I used to work with a guy who hated Israel and Jews. He actually got kicked out of the John Birch Society because he was too radical even for them. He used to show me issues of this nutty, far far out (into outer space) rag called "Spotlight." It was reading that rag I discovered how the evil Jews and Israelis (gasp, horror!) were conspiring to conquer the world. Every time I see Ron Paul and read his opinions, I think of that nutty rag.
The Old fella is forcing the conversation to the right.
Thanks for a relatively civilized response.