Ron Paul

Ron Paul.

Okay, even if you're a tax and spend bleeding heart liberal, you have to like Ron Paul. He is against the Iraq war, against the patriot act, aye, against anything that he feels is not constitutional, including expanding the welfare state. Even if you are liberal, if you're thinking one, you realize that these programs are, like agricultural subsidies and "homeland security" just excuses for boondoggles and lucrative contracts to politically connected entities.

Ron Paul will not vote for pork funding even if it benefits his district. Could you imagine for a moment if even 50% of Congress was like Ron Paul?

Along with Tancredo (for other reasons) there just might be some hope left for the otherwise hopeless Republican party.

Both go against powerful influences that are pushing for an expanded Iraq war (and don't be fooled the Democrats, if they want funding they will become even more virulent war hawks than republicans), open borders and the accelerated dismantling of the Constitution. And no, this isn't 'black helicopter nut' rhetoric it is happening before our eyes.

Antiwar.com mentions that Paul won the debate AND that for example ABC tried to keep his name out of the polls[because he goes against so many establishment interests]:

I saw Ron Paul last week in the Republican debates. He was good, but everybody else ignores what he says." This is from an e-mail I received from an economist friend who is a liberal Democrat. I responded, "Everybody except the viewers. He won the poll afterward, getting 43 percent. MSNBC reported it and then dropped it down the memory hole. I sent him a grand."

One thing you need to know about me is that I'm a skinflint. So for me to send $1,000 to Ron Paul for President is a big deal. Why did I do it? Because Ron Paul stood there with the other nine candidates at the Reagan Library "debate" and calmly, yet forcefully, defended the Constitution (which is the only thing the president swears to defend when he takes the oath); criticized having gone to war with Iraq (and backed it up by pointing to his "No" vote in 2002); called for a substantial tax cut (pointing out that the only way to get such a cut is to roll back the federal government in the lives of both Americans and foreigners); and ended with an impassioned plea to get habeas corpus back. Not bad for a guy who got less than his one tenth of the time allotted.