Out of all the current candidates of either party, I like Ron Paul the best.
I may vote for him whether he's nominated or not.

BUT

Ron Paul did not raise this sum in one day. It was raised for him ON a day.

It's smoke & mirrors.

Ron Paul offers a stripped down, leaner & less hostile federal government.

And except for libertarians such as myself, the U.S. electorate wants no part of that.
"... everyone's for big government. The American People say we hate big government, but we like our social security and medicare. That's 38% of government right there. The biggest components of government are the most popular components of government."
"What's pernicious about deficits for conservatives is this. It makes big government cheap. What we're doing, we're turning to the country, the "conservative" administration turns to the country and says: We're going to give you a dollar's worth of government, we're going to charge you seventy five cents for it. And we're going to let your kids pay the other quarter." George Will Nov 30, 2003

"when the bigots of this world have been privileged for as long as they have, to them equality feels like discrimination." shiftless2