“I’ve seen that interview and hundreds others with the guy, and hundreds others with libertarian/anarchist tilt (I have no life).”
Eh, that’s the only one where he explictly confirms it as far as I’m aware. Where are these others?
“But seriously, I like him, but just look at what’s happening with his son in Ky - he’s becoming the typical polician.”
That’s his son, that isn’t him.
"One always has to forgoe priciples when entering the political arena. "
No, one doesn’t. Ron is case and point. But there is obviously immense pressure to conform, the whole system is geared towards it. If you actually believe in the legitimacy of government, then you have no hope. That’s why Rand “fails” in comparision.
“And Ron had endorsed numerous neocons and issues (i.e. immagration, the border).”
What neocons? I specifically remember Ron advocating “non-voting leagues”, or if you do to vote - for the minor parties (non status quo), instead of lesser of two evils.
Immigration? There are libertarians on every ‘side’. Block - “open”, Hoppe “closed” and Kinsella who has the plumbline position.
“For what it’s worth, I didn’t become anarchist till after I heard about Ron Paul.”
That goes for me and 100,000’s +.
“It doesn’t mean RP serves some kind of holier than thou purpose of abolishing the state from within, slowly or something. That has never worked.”
Again with the strawmen. He actually openly acknowledges that. The fact that you don’t understand that given the situation makes it even worse.
“Ideas are the only things that count, and politicians are, for the most part, pretty much irrelevant,” Ron Paul told the London [Independent](http:// http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1992201-2,00.html#ixzz0pf63DXmV) in December.
He filters people outside the system.
“Just look at all his jung ho supporters holding up their constitutions like it’s more than just a piece of toilet paper and their worship of the founding fathers like their are immortal gods or some crap like that.”
I was banned from Ron Paul Forums for exactly that reason [Continuing to point out that Ron is a voluntarist, using his own words against his own “supporters” is a very quick way of opening their eyes, or getting yours poked out. [Recently unbanned due to the illogical / emotional moderator has been stepped down, not worth going back though. Maybe I’ll feel the urge if I see Ron in the debates again…) And yet their complete & utter ignorance of what he actually represents, doesn’t diminish his quality in getting others to look into Austrian Economics and Libertarianism.
He essentially directs them to this very institution, or at least others that all really hark back to this place in some capacity. He gets people on the right path, and then they do the rest. (Learning etc.)