I should have known better

I thought perhaps if Ron Paul was not going to win, and it looks like he's not going to do very well at all, he could at least influence someone like Mitt Romney. Now it looks like none of the candidates are good enough, and none can be influenced to adopt libertarian positions. The problem with Romney, Gingrich and Santorum is that they've all supported or enacted interventionist/statist policies in the past. When it gets down to a Republican candidate and Obama, any one of these three Republican candidates are open to accusations of hypocrisy when they accuse Obama of too much government intervention.

There's nowhere to hide in the Information Age. All of Obama's hypocritical actions will be brought up too, but media have Obama's back and, besides, if the campaign devolves into who's the biggest hypocrite, the incumbent has the advantage -- might as well keep the hypocrite in office.