I've considered briefly voting for Ron Paul as a protest but then I did some homework about his record and decided that his social priorities were reactionary in the extreme. I'm sorry but I support the concept of public education, even if it is a badly flawed system, and even if some people don't have children. But some will vote for Paul simply because he has challenged the Bush Administration as a Republican on the wisdom of their discreationary and outrageously expensive war in Iraq.