Ron Paul? What am I missing that appeals to so many?
 

I need some guidance as I have not heard anything from him that would come close to getting my attention.

What is the track record or accomplishments that I am missing?

btk

I tend to agree. I think the appeal is that he is an unadulterated truth teller, and people are so tired of politicians who parse their words, speak in sound bite platatudes, and just outright lie, that they find him refreshing. Those who are decidedly anti-government love his libertarian rants. I find him refreshingly candid, but some of his ideas are dangerous, although the reality is he could not get most of them enacted in the almost impossible event he were to become the president.

You are spot on. populist rantings Paul's biggest draw back is that he is an isolationist. Beside which his explanation of many issues lack a bit of reality. We may not like taxes, big government , etc and paul' claim that he will reduce them . The problem is that honest people can disagree about what high taxes mean or how small government should be. Beside which it will take years before anything like this would ever happen, if it could in the first place

Don't worry about it - neither has anyone else. There's a reason he's dead last in the R polling.

Track record of accomplishments? Hasn't accomplished anything in the 3.5 decades he has been in congress.

He's said he would legalize all drugs......appealing to the big under-age-30 crowd he has backing him.

When he was running for president, Bill Clinton said his brother would have already been dead if all street drugs had been legalized. I think he meant it.

But then, he never inhaled....LOL...

What are you missing about Ron Paul? Nothing is the answer.

It would be very difficult to sum up, in a brief phrase, the appeal of Ron Paul. While I disagree with him when it comes to the DEGREE of his stances, I find myself supporting the general direction of them.

For example, EPA regulations should be based more on property rights than some mystical policy. In other words, your "right to pollute" doesn't allow you to pollute my water supply and I should be able to sue you if you do.

Calling for an audit of the Fed is a VERY good thing. (Though I wouldn't abolish it)

Calling for us to actually follow the Constitution.

Admitting that we are an empire and asking if that is what we SHOULD be.

There are plenty more.