I'm picking up the Ron Paul speech partway through. He's swearing to fight on, but mostly only in the "caucus states." "Something big is happening in this country and it's something favorable," he says, adding, "We need more personal liberty." He says "the brush fires of liberty" are being lit all around the country. "We don't even know where they are, there are so many of them." "Don't you think it's time we had a new monetary policy?" The whole room goes nuts. (Ron Paul is speaking in Henderson, Nevada, because he'd basically given up on Florida, where he's currently getting just 7% of the vote.)

"I've gotten some advice on the internet," Ron Paul explains, saying that people on the internet told him to change his foreign policy, but he won't do it. He wants to "bring our troops home and end these unwinnable wars." He says "I'd like to see our troops spending money at home." He says he's angry at the way our troops come "wimping home." Ron Paul says "people will use their liberty in different manners," but that's okay, because they'll have to be aware "of the consequences of their actions." He just said we need our "peace and our pros-uh-perity." I'm hoping he'll rail against "revenuers" next. He says his followers need to "attend...the caucuses" to help win their country back, and then he's out.

Wow. Dude is getting nuttier. Seriously, you can't expect to become president just by focusing on caucus states. What's his strategy? Has Ron Paul broken enough from reality to think he can barter his way to Ending the Fed with a brokered convention? This plan is only slightly more viable than his 2008 rent-a-blimp strategy, frankly. What a fundamentally weird man he is.