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No, this is what makes many on FR think he's a nut:
Associating with Code Pink - Associating with 9/11 truth - endorsing and going out on the stump to aggressively campaign for Adam Kokesh, a well-known Code Pink Activist, 9/11 truther who went overseas to a military base and asked troops to abandon their posts, was responsible for the campus slander campaign against students putting up fake racist flyers and attributing them to a conservative student organization, etc. Saying that Israel set up Hamas. Making absurd statements that the U.S. could have simply 'bought' all the slaves and prevented the Civil War. Saying that a Yale Fraternity is controlled by the Trilateral Commission. Saying that "If I were Iranian I'd want the bomb" - we aren't interested in what he would want if he were Iranian we are interested in what he would want as an American. Repeated appearances on the Alex Jones show. Endorsing Cynthia McKinney - Etc, etc, etc, etc...one could probably continue the length of a book with example after example of this silliness.
That's the sort of thing some of us have a problem with - not that he's an alleged "constitutionalist" as has been discussed here numerous times.
Libertarianism is in fact what Conservatism used to be
Neither one of these assertions is true.
First, Ron Paul is a self-described Libertarian. He ran for president on the Libertarian ticket in 1988.
Second, there is nothing "conservative" about the Libertarian Party. Libertarians are only a philosophical step or two away from anarchists. They don't want small or smaller government, they want absolute minimalist government.
On most social issues, they are libertines, or nearly so. They want open borders, legalization of all drugs, an absolute minimalist military to go along with rock bottom minimalist government. In these matters, Libertarians and liberals are kissing cousins.
As is often said...
Ron Paul is to the Constitution as Fred Phelps is to the Bible.
Remember that and ignore the lies of Ron Paul.
Voting to repeal DADT is Conservative in what way ?
Paul can claim he’s a Constitutionalist, just as I can claim I’m an Eskimo. He voted to force the military to accept flaming faggots, is that a Constitutional vote? hmm?