Why would any progressive promote Ron Paul's worldview?

[joshcryer]

29. As I wrote on GG's blog:

I understand where GG is coming from, and it makes perfect sense. Ron Paul is perceived as having overlap with progressives, and therefore his ideas are important since he's the only candidate espousing those ideas. That's the entire argument. Seriously. All those thousands of words and insults, summed up. But it's very sticky territory. I myself refuse to acknowledge even a potential 'overlap' with Ron Paul's ideology. I don't want to risk the possibility that my ideas get conflated with his. My idea of anti-war is different from Ron Paul's idea of anti-war. He's not anti-meddling-in-other-states, he's fully behind globalization, that's automatically pro-meddling-in-other-states or... imperialism.

The very heart of capitalism *is* imperialism. So everything Ron Paul says is filled with untruths. You look at his anti-drug-war stance, sure, wonderful, I'm against drug criminalization, myself. But I'm also against drug cartels, which Ron Paul would not regulate. See how this works? There's no overlap for me, there's no compatibility for me, and I refuse to accept that I'm wrong for not wanting to take the chance that Ron Paul's perceived positions are actually rooted out as basically Libertarian lies.