I thought that Ron Paul sounded "mildly" interesting until I understood his position on couple of issues that do not make any sense whatsoever to me.
What I do not understand is how anyone in US can be against immigration and for creating the walled garden out of the country. Haven't we learned that walls don't do us any good? What happen to Berlin wall eh?
Most of the people would not even be here if there was no immigration.
Immigration is vital component of the US life and economy. Take just a look at the following list from MIT Technology Review magazine list of 35 Young Innovators for 2007 and count "native" American ones, please go ahead:
Technology Review: TR35 2007
Walled gardens do not work. I used to live in Germany where I was appalled by their stance towards immigrants. I hated it there, and would not return even if they pay me. Talk to any immigrant in Germany and you'll get pretty much the same story... All that while immigrants actually do the work that Germans do not want to do and are core component of their economy... Instead of embracing them they are unwelcome... No wonder they have problems with that...
US had opposite approach so far and I would argue that it worked great. Just take a look at that list that I posted link to. People from that list would not be able to do that in say Germany...
And if you say that you want to let in only smart well educated people in, well, that does not make sense either. Everyone is capable of doing great things given a chance...
Regarding his stance on foreign policy... While I knew from first day that going to Iraq was wrong thing to do and that it will not end up well, there are also great examples of where US intervention had great positive influence. I am familiar with the case of Bosnia where US intervened and had stopped the bloodshed that Europeans just have watched...
The easiest way to be always right is not do anything at all... You just can't make a mistake if you just sit and watch or can you?