Reply #40: There's a difference between "embracing" and agreeing on given issues.

[JackRiddler]

Ron Paul has supported ending the war on drugs, withdrawing from the occupations and the empire of American bases overseas, repealing the USA PATRIOT Act and other Bush regime outrages against civil rights, and auditing the Federal Reserve bank bailouts.

You can agree with these positions, which should be liberal standards but are not, without embracing Ron Paul or the rest of his politics. He gets so much attention on the left because these positions are all too rare among all elected representatives, the now-ousted Alan Grayson and Russell Feingold notwithstanding (neither of whom got the support from the national Democratic party they merited).

These are among the most important, mainly ignored issues of American politics, and each is vital to real progressive change in this country. There will be no change until the war budget stops strangling all other public priorities, and the drug war stops giving impetus to the advance of a police state. There will be no change until the banksters stop controlling monetary and economic policy, in large part through their cartel, the Federal Reserve.

Try some nuance. It will do you good.