Please let me know which of the candidates are calling for entire departments to be eliminated, the size and power of the federal government reduced, the IRS abolished, civil liberties restored to Americans. Even Fred Thompson hasn't talked about this in specifics and he definitely doesn't have the voting record to back it up.
Duncan Hunter addressed issues that are important to Republicans.
He has addressed border security and immigration, but then again so has Paul. Hunter has addressed China and the need for fair trade, but then again so has Paul. Get back to me when Hunter starts talking specifically about runaway entitlement programs and limiting government. As a conservative-libertarian, this is a huge issue for me, because regardless of who's President, they're going to have to address terrorism one way or the other.
Paul deserted Republicans years ago when he left for the Libertarian Party, seems he was at home there, and only came back to use the Republicans to get elected.
All of Paul's beliefs are in line with traditional Republicanism, right down to the non-intervention foreign policy. There's no need to bring up the libertarian straw-man. Libertarians are just as much as part of the GOP as Christian and moderate/RINO Republicans are.
He left the party to run in another party! He did not stay and fight, he did what was best for him politically! He came back when it was best for him politically. Being right on the issues is important, but loyalty is also important to me.
You are free to support him all you like but I don’t have to support him nor should I have to listen to his supporters laugh about 9/11. They should have been outside with Cindy!