This is a pretty fair article by W. James Antle III:
Now Paul is getting used to speaking to crowds as large as the 2,000 people who came out to hear him talk about fiat money -- no joke -- and foreign policy at Michigan State. There's hardly an Internet poll he hasn't won and his campaign beat expectations by raising nearly $5.1 million in the third quarter, putting Paul within a Mike Huckabee of John McCain. If Paul isn't yet a frontrunner, he is at least a cult favorite.Paul is much more at ease in front of a friendly audience than at the Republican presidential debates, where he must answer questions with Rudy Giuliani cackling in the background and trade elbows with his more hawkish rivals over the Iraq war. He smiles cheerfully and even shows flashes of wry humor. ("We're not going to get rid of the Federal Reserve in a day -- it'll take two or three days.")
Antle also takes exception to the Jay Cost article in Real Clear Politics: "Jay Cost has a strange post up at RealClearPolitics attempting to argue that the lack of party discipline is a serious problem."
