Why would any progressive promote Ron Paul's worldview?

[Saving Hawaii]

20. If Newt Gingrich comes out tomorrow and says that climate change is happening and that we need to do

something for the sake of future generations, I'll applaud him for the courage to stand up to his own party for a progressive cause.

But that's not what Ron Paul is doing. Paul isn't standing up for progressive causes. He's standing up for libertarian causes. The difference here is that progressives say that certain things are wrong and nobody should be doing. The libertarians just want to stop the government from doing them... sometimes. Not always. An exception would be for example racism. A progressive would tell you that a business shouldn't be able to refuse you service just because of the color of the skin. Ron Paul thinks that a whites-only laundrymat should be able to call the police and have government arrest you for trying to use the laundry machine. And shoot, the laundrymat owner might as well pull a gun on you for refusing to leave too.

If Ron Paul says he loves his mother, I like that, because we both love our mothers for the same reasons.

PS: In Ron Paul world, sure... the government stops looking at you funny as much as they do today, but remember that he takes a completely laissez-faire approach to corporations or powerful individuals that would like to do the same. The problem with libertarians is that they don't actually want to fix the problems of excessive power... they just want to change who wields that power.

So no, I can't get behind Ron Paul, even when he sounds kind of right, because he's still very wrong.