Tom Knapp wrote BH) It remains absurd to claim that Paul "believes that government -- not individuals -- should be the final arbiters of your sex life and the sexual activities of consenting adults". (BH
TK) Fine. If he doesn't believe it, he should stop saying it. (TK He hasn't said it. I already addressed the quote you tried to offer to substantiate this claim. If you have any others, feel free to post them. TK) And if you believe he hasn't said it, I'm interested in knowing whether you are a) deficient in English or b) a drooling Paul cultist. (TK My parsing of your only Paul quotation stands unrebutted. As for being a "Paul cultist", I repeat what I wrote here on Sep 23: _____ I months ago wrote "The idiotic thing that Paul said was the moral relativism implicit in his question about how would we like it if China did to us what we did to Iraq. Of the 14 arguments against libervention that I catalog here <http://blog.360.yahoo.com/knowinghumans?p=201> , this Patriotic argument is the third dumbest. If China had America's track record of promoting and defending liberty, and came here to snap the neck of a genocidal tyrannical George Bush who had used chemical weapons to exterminate entire towns of American dissidents, then I would welcome the Chinese Army with open arms, and might even tear down a statue of Bush to smack it with the sole of my shoe." And in an Aug 2 PlatCom email I approvingly quoted Brian Doherty on Paul: BD) Paul's concern with immigration is of a piece with his right-populist strains, an obsession with "sovereignty" that feeds his fevered opposition to international trade pacts and the UN. Combined with his strong emphasis on trash-talking the Federal Reserve and advocating a return to gold, it's the sort of thing that strikes many other libertarians as, if not inherently unlibertarian, sort of cranky and kooky, and that led me to note to The New Republic that many libertarians (though not me) think of Paul as a bit of a yokel. (BD I can't name a single political figure who doesn't have multiple positions that I find embarrassing. I'm a fan of Ron Paul not because he has no embarrassing positions, but because he has so few. [Perhaps this is similar to how you're presumably still a fan of Steve Kubby, even though he has endorsed a "homophobic bigot" for President.]
