I Am Looking Back Fondly On A 2008 Book By The Father Of The Tea Party (How Far Have We Fallen?)

He does make good points, and I don't think his arguments are unintelligent, but the logic doesn't really work. While I respect his commitment to his beliefs, refusal to go along with his own party and his opposition to the war on terror and drugs, it's just hard to get over his flimsy logic that the answers to America's problems lie in a strict interruption of the Constitution and the ideas of the Founding Fathers, as well as other figures from the 1770s. 

I agree that the Founding Fathers were brilliant men, and you can admire them without thinking they have the solutions to today's problems. It's not even their fault. It's just a lot that has changed since 1776. By Ron Paul's logic, I shouldn't be typing this review on a laptop but with a quill and pen instead, and instead of posting it online, I should find an old wall to post it on and publish a pamphlet like Thomas Paine with this review of the book. It's not that Thomas Paine wasn't a brilliant man. He absolutely was. It was that he lived in the 1770s. However, the idea a lot has changed since the 1770s can borrow the title from Thomas Paine's most famous pamphlet, which was "Common Sense." 

Some of Ron Paul's ideas are awful, mostly on going back to the gold standard, getting rid of public education and replacing actual health care coverage with basically negotiating with a doctor one on one. I actually found I like  Ron Paul and found him to be a thoughtful and interesting guy who really believed in his ideas, and as I said, I respect that, and despite what I felt was backwards logic at times, Ron Paul was good at explaining his point of view, and unlike today's GOP, he explained his point of view in a respectful way. Three stars.