Indeed he is not. I love Ron Paul. But I also see the limitation that Ron carries as a person.  To say he is not his father, I dunno,  seems like degrading to me. Each and everyone has to find the voice to speak with and deal with the insecurities of life and politics in their own way.  You might want to consider that Thomas Jefferson, though a revered and smart man, as president, has suffered from philosophical amnesia when it came to it. It shows we are human.  And as a human, Rand is a good guy.  To trust a politician 100% in the current climate would be, for me at least, a challenge of herculean proportions.