Point of No Return (Mark Steyn)

[cobra de capell]

Actually, I've given some thought to Ron Paul with the outcome that he's a nutjob or perhaps a nutbar like some posters here.

Thumbs down......because......

A lot of Ron Paul's supporters are incredibly irritating. For whatever reason, his supporters as a group are far more annoying than those of all the other candidates put together. It's like every spammer, truther, troll, and flake on the net got together under one banner.

Ron Paul is an isolationist: The last time the United States retreated to isolationism was after WW1 and the result was WW2.

Ron Paul wants to immediately cut and run in Iraq.

In the single most repulsive moment of the entire Presidential race so far, Ron Paul excused Al-Qaeda's attack on America with this comment about 9/11: "They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years." In other words, America deserved to be attacked by Al-Qaeda. This is the sort of facile comment you'd expect to hear from an America-hating left winger like Michael Moore or Noam Chomsky, not from a Republican running for President -- or from any Republican in office for that matter.

Ron Paul is the single, least electable major candidate running for the presidency in either party: Libertarianism simply is not considered to be a mainstream political philosophy in the United States by most Americans. That's why the Libertarian candidate in 2004, Michael Badnarik, only pulled .3% of the vote. Even more notably, Ron Paul only pulled .47% of the vote when he ran at the top of the Libertarian ticket in 1988.

Is Ron Paul serious about small government, enforcing the Constitution, and enforcing the borders? Yes, and those are all admirable qualities. However, he also has a host of enormous flaws that makes him unqualified to be President and undesirable, even as a Republican Congressmen. Besides, I really don't see a 'leader' when I've seen him speak, I see a nutjob that no one in their right mind would follow.