The Bottom Line

Ron Paul can win both the Republican nomination and the general election if he can persuade his followers that economic policy compromise is necessary if the libertarian cause is to be advanced at all, and if his followers, in turn, can persuade enough progressives that Ron Paul will really make necessary economic policy compromises once he is elected president.  If either of these conditions are not met, his campaign will be a flop and the libertarian agenda a dead relic forever.