No. He's a big-L Libertarian. Which is to say he's a lunatic. Yes, he's right about Iraq (sort of), but he's wrong about virtually everything else. The talk in that video about the recession being caused by the Federal Reserve is hiding his bigger point, which is that he wants to abolish the Federal Reserve Bank and go back to a gold standard, which is insane. He wants to abolish the IRS and get rid of federal income taxes, apparently to be supplanted by a national sales tax, which will just put more money in the pockets of the rich. He wants to get rid of virtually all restrictions on businesses, which will lead us to the same economic disparities that existed in the late 19th century.

Now, that doesn't mean that he's not better than the rest of the Republicans. He is. For one thing, you pretty much know where he stands. He may not be detailing all of his plans, but he's not changing his story every two seconds. But mostly because all of these lunatic ideas he has are unimplementable, by which I mean that there's no way he could actually accomplish them as president.