Skip Oliva sums up the problem with Ron Paul quite well in this post, which points to this article, which in turn claims that "if anyone is a real Republican and a genuine conservative it is Ron Paul." That's certainly true. As Oliva puts it,
• Ron Paul believes women’s bodies are the property of the state.
• Ron Paul will use federal power to prevent families that don’t match the structure of his own from living in freedom.
• Ron Paul would rather orphan children than allow them to have two loving parents.
• He may not talk about it openly, but Ron Paul is carrying out the agenda of fundamentalist Christians.
• Ron Paul opposes individual rights for anyone who has a different cultural background than his own.
• Ron Paul opposes the protection of individual rights through the courts.
• Ron Paul will allow state and local governments to violate any individual rights in the name of protecting "federalism" and the sacrosanct Constitution.
Hat tip: Wendy McElroy
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