Some Ron Paul supporters are too out of touch with reality.

You point out three things you say make Ron Paul supporters "out of touch with reality." 1. Global Warming: The most damning evidence for man-made global warming in An Inconvenient Truth is that chart demonstrating the relationship between CO2 and atmospheric temperatures. The problem is, the chart lies. It implies that C02 causes higher temperatures, when in reality, higher temperatures cause CO2 of the non-man-made variety. All of the man-made CO2 accounts for less than 3% of the total CO2 in the atmosphere. These are facts; not opinions. The truth about global warming is that the consensus is not nearly as solid as the Left says it is. Yes, a majority (not 100% or even 95%) of scientists believe that the Earth is warming; and a majority (not even close to 100%) of them believe man is PROBABLY (though not 100% guaranteed) to be the case -- this is the real "consensus," and it is barely, if at all, any more solid than the scientific "consensus" that said we were going to enter a new Ice Age back in the 1930s. Ron Paul and his supporters doubt Global Warming dogma and see its use by the Left and Fascist Right as a tool for expanding government and curtailing liberty. You do realize, however, that Ron Paul is 100% AGAINST pollution, right? Under a libertarian property-rights regime, the maximum allowable pollution would be 0%. Hence, global warming -- if it is man-made -- would be abolished overnight. 2. 9/11 an "inside job": Ron Paul does not believe this and neither do the vast majority of his supporters. On the other hand, backers of other Republican candidates tend to believe the equally false notion that Iraq had something to do with 9/11 and/or Saddam DID have weapons of mass destruction -- despite the fact that even Bush now admits both are false. The backers of Democratic candidates, on the other hand, are in love with widely discredited economic policies that have been proven harmful and/or unworkable both in theoretical and practical terms. Thus, when compared to the supporters of other candidates, I would say Ron Paul's followers are the LEAST divorced from reality -- even though I do admit that we have the bulk of the 9/11 crazies in our camp. 3. The "Federal Bank" is a scam: Um, it is. And if you don't think it is, then you don't know how the Federal Reserve System works, or what it is. Long ago, Milton Friedman advanced the "theory" (it's pretty ridiculous to call it that, since it is fact) that inflation is a "monetary phenomenon" -- i.e. increasing the supply of money is what causes price inflation. This is now widely accepted among economists and laymen -- far more so than global warming is among scientists. But as truthful as Friedman's inflation outlook was, it neglected the other half of the equation -- when new money is created, it is NOT redistributed among the current holders of money in proportion to the money they had before the monetary expansion. If it were, then inflation would serve no purpose at all -- prices would go up, but each person's purchasing power would also go up in relation to the prices, and thus, remain the same. But that is NOT what happens. When new money is created, it is first held in the hands of the bankers (virtually all banks are members of the Federal Reserve System). They get to use this new money first -- created out of thin air -- before it loses its purchasing power. They extend loans to customers, with the bulk of these newly created dollars going to the wealthy (who are more "credit worthy" than the middle class or especially the poor). What's more, the largest borrower on Earth is the federal government itself. Its spending is unrestrained in the age of fiat-money central banking, since the Federal Reserve itself will always buy its bonds, write it a check, and create the new money out of thin air. Where does this money go next? To the various "industrial complexes" of America, most notably, the military industrial complex. Who foots the bill? The taxpayer, but more onerously, the low- and middle-income earner, who does NOT benefit from the expansion of credit, and the pensioner. The Federal Reserve System IS A SCAM, and it IS the cause of the growing gap between rich and poor. If you care about poverty, now that your candidate John Edwards is out of the race, you should join the R3VOLution. Start by reading Murray N. Rothbard's THE CASE AGAINST THE FED. It dispels all of the bogus anti-Fed conspiracy theories and goes right to the heart of the matter -- the Federal Reserve System is a system for covertly redistributing wealth from the poor and middle class to the rich.