I don't know much about him, but I gather he's a real small-government advocate (not someone that claims to want small government but when in power spends like a drunken sailor) and in favour of ditching fiat money. The thing is, while most Americans, not least American pols, claim to want small government, they're almost unanimously against it in practice (who actually wants scrapping Social Security and replacing it with nothing and massively cutting defense spending and the size of the military, and ditching the federal welfare state, and ending agricultural subsidies, and not rescuing businesses like Fannie & Freddy, etc? Sure, everyone complains about their taxes are too high...) It is probably this contradiction between small-government rhetoric and the reality of an ever-expanding government why the media and the mainstream political class shun him.
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I am the steppenwolf that never learned to dance. (Sedaka)
El hombre es una bestia famélica, envidiosa e insaciable. (Francisco Tario)
I'm male by the way (yes, I know my avatar is misleading).