I am continually disappointed in the left slagging the thus-far most-viable seriously anti-authoritarian, anti-drug-war, anti-interventionist candidate as a tool of the Klu Klux Klan. At least someone who is actively and seriously against the idea of an American empire with Great Leader is polling more than 1-2%. (Dodd and Kuscinich are both at 1% in the most recent polls I can find.)

I am also far past the point of the "wasted vote" theory, as I would think you might be aware.

I am seriously not fond of some of Rep. Paul's positions. Some of them actively set back me and people like me. But he's also the only person polling more than 1% who is actively running on an anti-authoritarian platform.

(I mean, if the shameful actions of the Democratic party fighting Senator Dodd to grant the Bush administration the Cheney-written FISA bill does not convince you that the Democrats are part of the problem, I don't know what would. They are actively furthering the creation of the authoritarian state, not hindering it.)

I would like to think that anti-authoritarian leftists could manage to react to his candidacy without attacking his supporters as either "white racists" or "clueless single-issue antiwar liberals."

For the record, I have not given money to Rep. Paul's campaign. The only campaign to which I have donated money thus far is that of Senator Dodd.