Ron Paul's New Years

Post: CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley
Date: Jan 1, 2012

While Santorum was on a talk show with NBC's Meet the Press, Paul also spent his new years on a Sunday Talk show with Candy Crowley. Candy gets into the talk show by telling Paul that many people in Iowa believe that he is unelectable. In the poll, she reads, 29% of Iowa caucus goers found him the least electable. Paul is baffled by the comment. He responds that he has been elected 12 times by his district. Crowley then quotes what many others have thought. "Paul is not electable, he is too far out the mainstream, his views on foreign policy, etc, etc." She then gives him a video on Newt Gingrich talking about him to watch. Newt Gingrich says as a potential president, a person who thinks that the United States was responsible for 9-11, a person who wrote in his newsletter in 93' that the World Trade Center was a CIA plot, a person who doesn't care if the Iranians sell nuclear weapons, Ron Paul is not facing reality. Therefore, how could he be a good president?
This video of Gingrich on Paul shocked me. I never knew much about Paul and his policies. If those views that Gingrich had mentioned were true, I believe that those views would be shocking to hear for Americans. I think that he has a tremendous amount of audacity to make such conspiracy theories. I always thought that government officials were not allowed to attack CIA and secret organizations. (based upon TV shows like Nikita)
Paul argues that his theories come from actions. He responds, "He is pretty mainstream. Why are so many Republicans wanting to cut back and nobody is offering any cuts? People who are attacking are flip-flopping and do not know their issues. My views are attracting independent voters!"
Crowley then goes on and asks Paul to explain his views on the Civil Rights Act of 1964. He believes that the bill destroyed the principal of private property and civil liberties.
At first, I was shocked that they mentioned an act that happened so long ago. However Paul then explained that this affects society today. For example, the problems today are like discrimination in the court system and the death penalty out of proportion to their population.