RE: Continuing Adventures of Ron Paul...He's Just a Republican

I'm kind of glad to see Matthew hitting on Ron Paul so much lately (here, here and here). But I'm also kind of jealous. He's really stealing my thunder here.

If there is anyone who has been saying that Ron Paul is not a libertarian it's me. Naturally, if he were a libertarian he would be running on their ticket. But he's not. He's running on the GOP ticket because, well, because he's a Republican with some libertarian leanings.

His leanings, however, are no more libertarian than say Bernie Sanders or Russ Feingold. Or no more libertarian than even Dennis Kucinich. But none of them get the nifty Patriotic libertarian label. That only applies to Ron Paul. Why?  Because the media chooses to play it that way and the GOP is happy to keep playing it up.

Like Matthew says, "Paul is much closer to Pat Buchanan, a socially conservative nationalist whose idea of nationalist foreign policy is to withdraw troops from South Korea and deploy them to the Mexican border."  Yes, and don't forget, too, the part about conspiracies.  Ron Paul's ideology is largely borrowed from the John Birch Society in terms of averting reality.  Not that we need to protect our southern border to ensure people are coming into the country legally.  But that the liberal federal government is secretly trying to kill off the white man and ruin the vision of our Founders-- who also don't want us to have health care.

Yet we still have to take that a step further and see that Paul not only believes in limiting women's rights, that he favors amending the Constitution to protect what he believes is God's desire for marriage and that he rejects clear modern science that evolution exists and we not only see that libertarianism has nothing to do with it but that conservatism even becomes a stretch, which is why he's just a Republican.