Paul follows the original Constitution. I like the part of the Constitution that lays out rules for Shrimp marketing campaigns.
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..712…
[W.S.J:
Texas Congressman Ron Paul — libertarian gadfly and current Republican Presidential hopeful — has made a name for himself as a critic of overspending. But it seems even he can’t resist the political allure of earmarks.

After reporters started asking questions, the Congressman disclosed his requests this year for about $400 million worth of federal funding for no fewer than 65 earmarks. They include such urgent national wartime priorities as an $8 million request for the marketing of wild American shrimp and $2.3 million to fund shrimp-fishing research.

When we called Mr. Paul’s office for an explanation, his spokesperson offered up something worthy of pork legends Tom DeLay or Senator Robert C. Byrd: “Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked,” the spokesman said. “What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public — and I have to presume it’s not by accident.”

On the other hand, good libertarians should want to start cutting somewhere. The problem with earmarking is that each year the habit grows by leaps and bounds so that it now represents real money. It is also a gateway to political corruption — a la Duke Cunningham, and other Congressmen currently under investigation for trading favors for earmarks.

Mr. Paul is one of Congress’s better fiscal conservatives. So the fact that even he feels obliged to grab multiple earmarks is all the more reason to keep fighting for transparency in the earmark process, as well as for the line-item veto, which would give Presidents a chance to impose some spending discipline from outside Congress.]

Close the Department of Education – not in the Constitution.

Neither is the word Abortion or anything about marriage but Paul wants conservative federal laws to decide those issues.

Open your eyes.

I’d love to see Paul end up with 18% in New Hampshire, but not just to give Paul a strong second place finish. Even better than Paul coming in second (or Hannity-forbid, first), would be the absolute destruction of mandates the polls used to give. This will help ANY candidate: top tier, fringe, contrarian, third party, whatever, to scoff any pollster’s opinion on a future election.

To paraphrase Gandhi: “First we ignore the polls, then we ridicule the PAC-raised money, then we fight the old media’s support for dictators, then we vote our conscience.”