I am attracted to the candidacy of Rep. Paul. I'm not a Republican, and long ago I vowed never to vote for one. Never found any reason to, frankly. But, I want to support candidates that will get us out of Iraq and will not get us into Iran. This is what Rep. Paul seems to promise us as a candidate.

But, I want to continue to question whether I know enough of what the Representative from Texas has to say and what he would do if elected. We wonder about the Righties and question everything about them. To be honest, we need to do the same about candidates that we endorse.

There is dissent about Rep. Paul. You can hear it in this discussion,

"...Molly, with her usual insight, laid out the essential struggle we're having with Paul. As a libertarian leftist, I understand viscerally the charm of Paul's message. Who wouldn't be charmed? He's anti-war, anti-torture, anti-drug war, and anti-corporation -- a real progressive dream date. Until you reflect on the fact that he's also anti-choice, anti-gay, anti-environment, anti-sane immigration policy, and apparently, anti-separation of church and state as well:

"The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion. The establishment clause of the First Amendment was simply intended to forbid the creation of an official state church like the Church of England, not to drive religion out of public life."

-- From a "War on Religion" article Ron Paul wrote in December 2003 (found at Lew Rockwell.com):

And that's the trouble we're having with Ron. There's just a whole lot going on under that affable exterior that deserves a hard second look before we clutch the man to our collective bosom..."

This is found here:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/trouble-with-ron.html

And more questioning can be found at the same blog, orcinus, here:

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2007/06/ron-paul-vs-new-world-order.html

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