[GOP Poet]

You bet. :-) You are not rambling at all. You are engaging in what in my opinion makes FR so very special and important--thoughtful analysis and point sharing to get others thinking and talking and debating for clarification and betterment or refinement of making our party or country a better place to live from a conservative or libertarian perspective. This is one place we hash it out with relatively free interference from the lefties and MSM.

I appreciate your points and you have clarified a bit too the Ron Paul phenomenon. I have lately been thinking it has been more liberal driven (as far as polls and even some spam here on FR.) It would be nice though it these RP supporters would quit hiding behind the candidate and start posting their views here divorced from that shield so we can have a real debate and discussion and not some prop of a cardboard cut out being held up as a blockade. The candidates should be the means to an end not the other way around. IMHO.

[eeevil conservative]

back atcha...

your ability and technique in dicussion of the issues is a breath of fresh air!

THANKS!!!!