I didn't say that Ron Paul was perfect. ;-) I said he has some good ideas.

Furthermore, I've heard him answer those accusations about racist stuff in his newsletters...stuff which was written by various supporters of his with their own personal axes to grind, not by him...and which he should not be personally blamed for in that regard, as it wasn't his intentions that were being expressed, and he didn't know what his supporters were putting out in that regard until after it was already out there.

Your one-sided assertions about Republicans are just as fanatical, prejudiced, and downright loopy as the one-sided assertions that the worst of them make about Democrats and "liberals". All you are doing is revealing your own very strong partisan prejudices when you make those kind of assertions.

I agree, however, that the Republican Party is (in general) on a very wrong track. If they were running in Canada, they'd get less than 20% of our population on their side (the Democrats would get the other 80%). That's how far out of sync the Republicans are with the world in general outside the USA. The only place where I think they are more popular than the Democrats is in Israel.