Don't Believe the Hype (Ron Paul is Not Your Savior)

Congressman and presidential hopeful Ron Paul has always opposed the Iraq war, and that's really, really great. I'm happy for him. The right wing ideologue actually gets the war, the CIA's practice of so-called extraordinary rendition and Guantanamo right – but the balance of what he gets wrong is glaring and is almost as frightening as the amount of friends and colleagues I respect that have signed on as Ron Paul supporters. People seem to like that he appears to be an unusual Republican candidate, but right below the surface of the libertarian mask that Paul wears is an ultra nationalist, gun loving Christian conservative that opposes affirmative action, a woman's right to choose and same-sex marriage. And… oh yeah: he hates immigrants.

Aura Bogado

This is high praise coming from a far (as in out there on Pluto) left wing-nut. Aura, bless her heart, is asserting that Dr. Paul is not one of them. Despite what the war-loving contingent of the GOP says, Dr. Paul fills the Reagan-era description of a conservative in every way.