This guy's got a helluva good post

on Ron Paul. Here's a taste:

Seriously, in the last Republican debate a large segment was devoted to evolution – they actually debated their views on evolution as if it mattered. When it wasn't that, there was the question of gays in the military, why the terrorists will win if Republicans aren't elected and, of course, abortion. It's so painful to listen to, it makes it obvious why the Republican Party endorses torture – they wouldn't be able to give speeches otherwise.

I'm not sure what Paul has said about most of these things, but as for abortion, he's against it.

Here are my guesses [I'll just go ahead and project my own views, what the hell. That's what everyone else does in favor of their favorite party hack. Maybe I'll do some research on his views of these issues someday:
Evolution? I wasn't there when God created the world, so I don't know how He did it.
Gays in the military? Don't bug people with your sexuality and there won't be a problem. Don't ask, don't tell works for me, Al, and it ought to apply to straights too. [Paul probably takes the issue of sexuality and state the other way, actually, but I don't know.]
Dems and Repubs on the War on Terrorists? Don't let 'em kid ya, it's a horse apiece. Would the Dems even have attacked the Taliban? If they'd followed Clinton's example, they would have. And, given the same, incompetent intelligence President Bush got, they'd have probably attacked Iraq too. The libertarian prescription for governments is kill the guilty (well, depending on the crime...), leave the innocent alone. Dems and Repubs think they're hamstrung by the Constitution, but what we're really hamstrung by is about a 100 years of misinterpretation of the Constitution.

I'm actually very happy with Bush on one score: he's reinvigorated our intelligence gathering ability. Spies are absolutely essential to a free nation.
We covered abortion, that leaves torture: the Constitution covers that.

Mainstream politicians and career bureaucrats have been moving this country in the wrong direction since the dawn of the Progressive Era (and there were some awful mistakes before that, too). I do give Reagan credit for beginning to turn the ship of state back on course, and the Gingrich revolution for continuing the course correction, but we're not there yet.