Ron Paul holds court on the U-M Diag

Republican candidate Ron Paul got some big love last night as he gave a speech on the Diag. Paul, a Texas congressman and the most liberal of the GOP candidates, told the crowd of his ideas for defending civil liberties, pulling US troops out of Iraq and a non-interventionist foreign policy. While socially conservative, Paul did take a swipe at the Bush Administration's foreign policy

"And that is, quit all this spending overseas. Wasted money. We are now spending nearly a trillion dollars a year to maintain an empire... We weren't meant to be the policeman of the world."

Paul had come to Ann Arbor after participating in yesterday's GOP candidate debate in Dearborn.