Paul can also be viewed as very liberal to the anti-war people, and he definitely the only candidate that I feel is truly anti bailout of Wall Street. From what I have read Paul is Paul is anti-welfare, but not anti-unemployment ( please don;t mix the two ) , and he is the only candidate that will actually shrink our military. I like him despite what Mr. Lemann says.

Yes, but with whom would Obama debate? It is one (correct) thing to label Paul as an "enemy of the state", which he certainly is. But in what quarter of the republican clown show can one find an intelligent, responsible debate partner? Gingrich?? No, he's a delusional sociopath. Perry, Bachman . . . no they're either stupid, or crazed.Maybe Romney, except one cannot believe anything he says, because he will reverse what he says tomorrow. And, oh by the way, Mitt really is, at his core, just a slimy business consultant who tells his clients what they wish to hear for a very large fee. He is fundamentally incompetent at anything to do with real government. Government is basically just a collective of "we the people". Government is created to keep the warlords at bay--republicans today represent those warlords. Taxes are the glue that binds a civilized society together. They create a common good, but republicans no longer understand that. Ronald Reagan may have felt free to argue for limited government and then allow it to grow, but he also let loose a rhetoric ("Government is the problem . . .") that lives and resides within the teabagger community. Just as he perhaps was not an actual racist, but made racism ok again, he did something worse with his government rhetorical hatred. We can no longer have the debate for which you eloquently argue.

It is amazing somebody who got the GI Bill to be able to attend college like professor weirdo aka Ron Paul has the Gal to vilify government .Iam sure if Rod Serling were still alive he probally could sue Mr Paul for copy right infringement since he seems stuck in his own episode of the twilight zone
Mean while in his own twilight zone Ron Paul wants to champion the rights of zygotes while the crowd cheers the death of a grown man for not being unable to afford medical insurance, While back in his twilight zone he completely forgot to contemplate how IS A women going to birth safely while not having access to a hospitable.

A lot of what Paul identifies as the problem with government is accurate. It is his solutions that make him intolerable. When you have Obama signing the Homeland Battlefield Bill how do you expect to pick a winner amopngst the Republicans? Is it not clearly evident to all that it is the system, not the president, who must change?

last time i looked at wordnik, the last definition right side of page for the word fascism was: the corporate control of government. with citizens united, and the recently passed defense bill, that was certainly accomplished. let us call a spade a spade for a change. and for the really bright guys, that was a pun.
to say america is still not a bigoted country for the most part is to lie. yes, we have come a long way, but we are still at the beginning of becoming what could be a great country, or at the end of our time in history. there is a reason why countries both love and hate america at the same time. nobody's perfect. to say it is the end of the world may be correct. however, it may be the beginning of something a lot better for all, a thing called equity. the same thing that made finland the best school system in the world. check it out.

More limp wristed blather from the New Yorker. Paul doesn't hate government. He understands its legitimate role. He's against the abuses in government, esp. the FED.

Read this by Lemann, "Underlying everything is, of course, a larger mistrust—the sense that in some hushed Washington conference room highly consequential arrangements are being made that will help a few privileged insiders and hurt ordinary Americans."

Lemann tries to insinuate that Paul is a conspiracy nut. But what Lemann describes is exactly what happens in all government these days. Yes, it has always happened, but now it is out of control. Most elected officials are bribed on just about every important issue.

The FED is a horrible institution. It is owned by its private member banks and yet it gets to set most of the economic policy of the US. The FED was created by JP Morgan and Paul Warburg (of the Rochchild banks). It serves the interest of banks and not people.

Paul is right about the FED and about American's murderous foreign policy. That's why he appeals to liberals like me and to real conservatives who are basically libertarian.

The New Yorker has one or two good writers -- Jane Mayer and Seymour Hirsh. The rest are just mouthpieces for the mainstream.

Any candidate who seeks to limit a woman's freedom to choose what she will do with her own body, whether to carry her pregnancy to term or to terminate it, is NOT a candidate who represents the people of this nation. Repeated polls taken by several agencies ALL have shown that the majority of Americans do not wish to control a woman's rights regarding abortion, yet Faux News and other Republican-influenced media continue to tell us otherwise, even to the point of making us feel like heathens or bad people if we think a woman should be able to choose what happens with her own body. To inflict a religious right fundamentalism on the entire U.S. population regarding abortion and even now, to restrict funding for birth control and counseling services and options for pregnant and child-bearing aged women is NOT reflective of the religious freedoms on which this country was initially founded. The Holy Bible upon which most of these religious fanatics say is their guide tells me NO one has the right to judge another person for their actions except for God, and to tell me that i am somehow less of a Christian because i believe that women should have a choice in deciding whether or not to have a child is to go against everything that my Bible tells me. The Roe vs. Wade decision was reached decades ago by the U.S. Supreme Court, and all the time spent in Congress lately in trying to undo it has only served to set back and delay what Americans really NEED right now to help them.