Republican Maverick Ron Paul Wins a Second Straw Poll and Reminds the Critics Why He Matters by Tim Stanley

Republican Maverick Ron Paul Wins a Second Straw Poll and Reminds the Critics Why He Matters by Tim Stanley:

"We’ve seen all this before. In 2008, Paul drew large amounts of cash in the months before the primaries, but then vanished when voting started. His band of loyal libertarians is stretched too thinly across the country. There aren’t enough economics professors, Hell’s Angels, college slackers, dynamo-businessmen, pacifists and Aqua-Buddhas in any one state to swing it his way.

His hardcore ideology is too socially libertine for religious conservatives and too economically callous for crossover Democrats. His politics fall into a niche parodied by The Onion with this barfly motto:
“Fiscally I’m a rightwing nutjob, but on social issues I’m f**king insanely liberal”. Paul complicates this by also being a bit pro-life."