Ron Paul is not dumb; he knows he is not going to win the Republican presidential nomination. So why even stay in the race? He is staying in the race in order to make vital changes to the Republican party platform.
Unlike most Republicans, Ron Paul is anti-war and a civil libertarian. He is opposed to the death penalty, the war on drugs and does not believe the government, especially the federal government, should be able to regulate marriage insisting instead that it should be up to local religious institutions.
However, Rick Santorum is currently fighting Ron Paul and telling his supporters to make sure Paul's ideas do not get on the platform. Santorum is fighting against change in the right direction; he is holding on to his outdated views and hopefully the Republican party will not allow this.
There's a reason Ron Paul polled much better than the other Republican candidates. Ron Paul believes in moving in the right direction (on social and foreign policy at least) and so he captured more of the independents and even a few of the "blue dog" Democrats who favor Democratic social policy but agree with Republican fiscal policy.
The Republicans now have a clear option ahead of them: progress and move in the right direction by fixing their platform or keep on with their oppressive social policies and hawkish foreign policy by maintaining the status quo.
Ron Paul said it himself he is trying to save the Republican party from what it has become. Obviously, they have no hope on fiscal policy but Ron Paul is at least trying to move them in the right direction on social and foreign policies.
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