Well, Ron Paul's answer was composed of three points: 1. Cut taxes and spending. 2. Reduce the regulatory power of the Federal Government 3. Reform the monetary system.
Yes, I can see how some people would be opposed to 3, but considering a. Ron Paul was never comitted to an overnight switch to free banking, that was the least dangerous part of the program and b. Ron Paul was right on so much other stuff, I'd think they'd be able to get over that.
If you think that more individual liberty and personal responsibility are bad, then Ron Paul is probably not the man for you.
But here's the thing: the reason we're now discussing this is not, in my mind, Ron Paul, the physical Pennsylvania-born physician who's now a Republican conservative from Texas.
The problem is that some of us (not just me, my opinion is pretty much irrelevant, but all those American guys who voted for RP, whose opinion is a bit more important than mine) feel that these events involving Ron Paul are not a minor occurence in the constant stream of political nonsense. A lot of people on the 'radical' wing of conservatism/libertarianism felt that the tie-wearing gradualist dudes are our friends, and that if an opportunity presented itself to smash the system, then the gradualists would grab it or at least agree to help out if the alternatives were not actually gradualist, but big-government. That turned out to be untrue. People started focusing on the quirks of the Ron Paul candidacy like high-school jocks during nerd-baiting season. Practically all of the conservative pundits, all of them Limbaughs and Levins and so forth, arrayed themselves against the only candidate that was actually capable of giving them most of what they claimed to want, if they were elected. A lot of people seem to feel, on an emotional level, that the people that we respected (at least to some degree) have turned around and suddenly attacked us, while we had a common enemy.
Instead they turned around and rallied behind the various RINOs whom they swore up and down never to support - remember, before the election many people viewed the positions of the RINOs a so similar they were given the nickname "Rudy McRomney", as if to mock their similarity.
Suddenly "I'll never vote for a RINO" turned into "Vote for Romney, he's better than McCain!".