[Barcalounger]

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Hmmm, If you are "near Socialist" I don't understand how you can support Ron Paul. Care to explain?

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Sure. I don't agree with any candidate on everything. I'm sort of a "libertarian socialist" ...

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I'm another one of these crazy "libertarian socialists" (not sure I like that term...) that would vote Ron Paul if nominated but probably Dem or Green party if he's not.

I've argued before that many of the worst violations of personal liberty (root word of liberal) are currently from the executive branch: War mongering, domestic spying, drug war, etc. President Paul could immediately have an impact in stopping these things. And would do a better job ending them than most of the democratic candidates.

But he would still have a tough time putting an end to public schools, social security, etc. because these would require a democratic or republican congress to pass a bill to be put in front of him. That would be a lot of work to get that many politicians to ignore the popularity of all these programs and put an end to them in 4 or even 8 years.

So a Paul presidency is high reward, low risk for social leaning libertarians.