I haven’t paid much attention to Ron Paul or his supporters. Sometimes he gets things right; sometimes he’s the mayor of Crazytown.
What I have seen is a large number of posters who are clearly leftists pretending to be something else. Some of them have “since” dates reaching back to 1998, which makes me think that someone knows how to hack this site.
We have to pay attention to them in WA because they have been working over time to take over the party here, and succeeding. Many of our candidates are closet Libertarians.
The problem with that goes beyond the obvious of conflict with social conservative interests. The problem is that many, who call themselves Libertarians, don’t understand what a Libertarian is. We have a whole lot of union members, public sector and private sector union members, who claim to be libertarians and they run for office as conservative Republicans. Then they stand up for the SEIU.
They have been pulling the same thing that they tried at the convention at our state and county conventions, for years. We have one state congressman, who is pro-legalization of marijuana, anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage and pro-government unions because he is a member of one. oh, and he’s a libertarian/Republican.