Kuros
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- #41
He's fucking batshit, y'all. Batshit. And Jon calls him on it.
No, he's not. And Jon treated him with the respect he deserves. Unlike you.
You say you're a centrist, but I wonder where you stand on the Wall St. bailouts, or rampant "defense" spending, or the war on drugs. If you're against all these things and yet still think Ron Paul is "fucking batshit" then you are simply confused.
And you point out all the reasons why I was actually thinking of voting for the guy. Despite what the conservative trolls above would have you believe. I really wanted someone against corporate bailouts, against war, against the war on drugs...fiscal conservatism and social liberalism...
then he undercut it all by saying to Jon "if you just let the markets regulate themselves (federally) they can't steal or defraud customers." Ive got a timestamp above if you don't believe me.
That's where he lost me. Corporations aren't inherently evil...but they can't be trusted either.
Actually, your response to RP reminds me of the right-wing's candidate purity test. If you watch Jon Stewart you'll know where I'm coming from on this. You want the perfect candidate. There is none such perfect candidate.
He didn't undercut anything but the single point he was making at the time. He's wrong on some things. He's right about most others. What's most important: he's right about the points that matter, and he's right when everyone else is wrong or simply uncommitted.
Anyway, a Ron Paul Presidency would not see a dismantling of the Federal gov't. He'd be using all his political capital to end the drug war and blunt the military-industrial complex and reign in the Federal Reserve.