Quote from Jayford:
Who cares what Ron Paul thinks. He is a whack job with ZERO chance of winning. He can raise money quite well, but still doesn't get out of single digits. You can't go around saying you'd abolish half the Federal agencies (CIA, etc), and expect people to take you seriously.
The other guys aren't much better, but one of the "big four" will get the nomination (Rudy, Mitt, Huck, or McCain).
He's not a whack job. He knows he has no chance of winning. He's just taking what he knows is a radical position so that he can make clear to the American public how far Government has strayed from its founding principles. Even if, by some bizarre set of circumstances, he actually won he knows that Congress would never approve his agenda. He just wants to make a valid point in as loud a voice as he possibly can.