excerpts from her column, OK, Now Ron Paul, in the NYT 11/25. The list of things he's against encapsulates the reasons for liking him and not.
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/26/o...nes&emc=tha212

....Paul has written a ton of stuff, most of it on his economic theories. His big best seller is End the Fed, and, if you are interested in abolishing the Federal Reserve, I would really suggest reading it. However, the Fed is not going to be ended. People are not going to be given the power to mint their own money, as Paul also suggests. But, really, if this is what floats your boat, read away.

Liberty Defined: 50 Essential Issues That Affect Our Freedom has more variety. It’s full of essays, mostly about things Paul disapproves of, from abortion to Zionism. It’s quite a list. Paul says he believes that the federal government (“the wealth-extracting leviathan state”) shouldn’t be doing anything that’s not specifically enumerated in the Constitution....He doesn’t really believe in global warming, but, even if he did, he doesn’t think government is smart enough to be able to do anything about it.

He also doesn’t believe in, well, let’s see: gun control, the death penalty, the C.I.A., the Civil Rights Act, prosecuting flag-burners, hate crime legislation, foreign aid, the military draft under any circumstances, campaign finance reform, the war on drugs, the war on terror and the war on porn. Also the war in Iraq and the war in Afghanistan. Taxes are theft.


.... Basically, Paul seems to want to revert to the 18th century, when every bank could set its own monetary policy and every community ran its own schools — presuming, of course, the community wanted to pay for them. “The founders of this country were well educated, mostly by being home-schooled or taught in schools associated with a church,” he reasons.

Those of us who were not born in the gentry could presumably go back to sowing and reaping hay.

....“Chicken-hawks are individuals who dodged the draft when their numbers came up but who later became champions of senseless and undeclared wars when they were influencing foreign policy,” Paul writes in his chapter on conscription. “Former Vice President Cheney is the best example of this disgraceful behavior.”

Really, you can’t totally dislike the guy.