The missing link is that Romney doesn’t embody anything other than being a typical politician and, even worse, an alienated elitist. The pundits love to dig at Paul as an out-of-touch old man incapable of rendering relevant thought. I find that sentiment to be actually offensive, because there is no doubt that at the very least, no matter your viewpoints, Paul gives voice to the importance of civil liberty.

Congressman Paul’s genuine concern and effort to warn and hopefully stop legislation that aims to reduce the rights that we as Americans have is his greatest appeal. Liberty is a state of being for the individual and as all individuals deserve rights, theoretically empowering individual liberty minimizes potential systemic racism or other methods of collective punishment.

The desire to be free is the strongest desire that we as individual beings possess. The dream, as Martin Luther King Jr.’s was, to be free is a state-of-mind any human being can possess that goes far deeper than arbitrary traits like skin color or other surface-level differences. In effect, Paul and the movement he’s harnessing represents one of the greatest possible futures for the identity of the Republican Party.