I think he had/has a few major flaws.
5. Many republicans don't see him as an actual republican. Getting the republican nomination is a game of trying to out conservative each other so the people on the far right will vote for you. He is way too much in the middle/left for anyone in the base to support him and that will doom you every time.
-This comment made me laugh. First off, Paul is the most conservative man running (counting the republican candidates who dropped out). Why don't you look at what George Bush ran on in 2000, a humble foreign policy, no nation building, no policing the world, reducing the size of government and less taxes. This is what Paul has advocated since he got into politics and this is exactly what the republicans now have not been delivering. If you want to talk about being too far int he middle/left you need only to look at Mccain. The republican party is hijacked by neocons which believe in some social conservative values but are far from real conservatives.
Anyway, these are just a couple of my thoughts on why he disappeared. maybe you could also say that it seems like he never spent any of this money he was famously raising. I haven't seen one ad or commercial for him, but my state is just voting this week and the republican race has long been over so maybe he did spend earlier on.
-I can agree with you there but would like to add, the major gain from his campaign is educating voters on what an actual republican stands for and to spread the ideas of limited government, nonintervention, a stable currency and individual freedom. It's been a long time since people have been talking about REAL change and I welcome it.
and this here is for sausage -
http://dougwead.wordpress.com/2008/0...heat-ron-paul/