Ron Paul is not a conservative. Ron Paul is a libertarian.
Ron Paul is a Republican who leans libertarian, and has been Republican for a great many years.
The ones who are running against him have the letter “R” after their names, but they are anything but conservative or Republican.
“Ron Paul is not a conservative. Ron Paul is a libertarian.”
AHEM.
“If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is.”
-Ronald Wilson Reagan, Reason magazine. 1975