Paul

Ron Paul is a gay-bashing racist who loves Ayn Rand, psycho rightwing militias and Pat Buchanan, and who sued Bill Clinton for winning the Kosovo War the wrong way; he despises women, hates immigrants, hates Native Americans. In his eyes, FEMA is unconstitutional: if you’re a flood victim, too bad. Also unconstitutional: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid. He wants to shut down the Federal Reserve, VA hospitals, the IRS, and a number of cabinet departments. His tax policy is bizarre. He supports DOMA and the gold standard; he proposes to solve our deficit problems by selling the gold in Fort Knox. He wants to pull out of Iraq, Afghanistan and any other military conflict; he wants to pull out of NATO, which is fighting in Afghanistan, and the WTO. He opposes affirmative action, Roe v Wade, the Civil Rights Act, support for Israel, the Cuba embargo, the Patriot Act, the War On Drugs. And if he wants to make all of this cataclysmic change happen, he’d need to hurry, because he’d be in his eighties by the end of his first term.

Ron Paul is supported by a wild band of internet freaks and donors, and he has field operatives in Iowa already, but his electoral history is spotty: he has run as a Libertarian, and even in Texas he has struggled to hold his House seat. A lot of his support comes from people who are independent of the party base. And this campaign did not get off to an auspicious start: Paul launched his campaign by saying he wouldn’t have launched the bin Laden raid, claiming it was unnecessary and that we should have worked with the Pakistanis to get him instead. This was so off the beam that even the Tea Party Nation founder said "If there is any doubt that Ron Paul should not even get near the Oval Office, even on a tour of the White House, he has just revealed it….For a Congressman to say the raid to kill the man who is one of the greatest mass murderers of Americans in history was, 'not necessary,' is simply nuts."