Why Ron Paul matters

This is simple - Ron Paul is ACTUALLY A CONSERVATIVE. Now there are many ways to define "conservative" after 7 years of W destroying the nation with his borrow and spend policies. I mean conservative here in the Barry Goldwater sense. I am voting for Hillary. Period. BUT - personally the libertarians appeal to me "on paper" - but in a real first world democracy they simply makes no sense. Big business CANNOT be trusted to act in the proper manner without regulation. They prove this over and over again. Enron is a recent example. A freely elected government must lay down legal and regulatory markers to control the rapacious greed of many corporations. And a "strict" interpretation of the 2nd amendment is ridiculous. No one has the unimpeded right to "bear arms" in our country. Go attempt to purchase a bunker buster bomb on the black market and see if the court will agree with your right to bear those arms. What arms one can bear is the debate. Not the right to bear them.
That said - Ron Paul as the GOP nominee vs any Democrat would prompt a real debate next Fall. I like him. The other GOPs run the gamut from buffoon, to greaseball and back again. Hillary will bury all of them.