There is no smear campaign.
Ron Paul is on the skids becuase he is the odd duck.
He is far to idealogical to winover joe everyman
Why would the Republicans want to eliminate Ron Paul from the debates. Let him say what he has to say. On domestic issues he is WAY more conservative than conservatives.
And we have so many RHINOs these days, at least paul says what he means. He makes some excellant points.
Just because we don’t agree with an isolationist policy does not mean we can not re-assess our foregin policy to make it most advantageous for us.
You are using "idealogical" in a very strange sense. Paul is the chief exponent of strict interpreation of the Constitution--i.e., strict limitations on Federal power. That does not lend itself to ideological pursuits--rather precisely the opposite.
It is precisely because the Administration has gotten into the mire of trying to force ideology on others, that it has gotten into trouble. It is his ideological stubborness, which leaves the President unable to adjust to changing conditions. Paul, on the other hand, by being true to the Constitution, would maximize individual responsibility again--thus bring all of us into the picture--the same concept that makes the market economy work. But that is not based upon ideology, but legality and nature. In place of a Federal Government trying to superintend American education, or Health Care--which are every bit as stupid as the planned Economy, which Reagan tried to rescue us from--we would go back to our true strengths.
In foreign policy, we would again offer friendship to the world, but recognize that the world is not "One"; that we are diverse peoples, with diverse values, diverse natures; that respect begets respect, and meddling begets various things which are not desirable. On the other hand, as a true Jeffersonian, Paul would again "punish the first insult! (Do those attacking Dr. Paul even remember when Jefferson established that as an essential for traditional American foreign policy? Foreign Policy)
William Flax