Paul Disowns Extremists’ Views but Doesn’t Disavow the Support

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1. Yada, Yada, Yada.

The critiques here have move so far away from neocons I feel compelled to speak up a bit.

The mummified remains of paleo-conservatism are being exhumed, with liberals staring at the mummy yelling "gross"! And I'm still sitting here saying "Yeah, but the sad truth is, its still better than neo-conservatism."

And I stand by that. My hope for the 2012 Republican Republican is that they won't elect another Bush, another neoconservative. Yes, I would prefer Pat Buchanan. Ron Paul. Whatever, even though I don't prescribe their views. Why?

Because of the simple fact that words don't equal dead bodies. What you have left over from the Bush administration is 100,000 dead Iraqis who lost their lives because they were pursuing a non-existent WMD program. Men, women, children. You also have about 5,000 dead US troops who lost their lives stopping the non existent Iraqi nuclear program. You have our civil liberties gone. That's substantial, that's real. If you want me to worry about somebody other than neoconservatives, you've got to show me the mountain of corpses. Not words, not wayward wieners, not articles with academic errors, but corpses, and billions in spending to have created those corpses. Nobody else, no matter how much you or I dislike their principles, stacks up to the fundamental Bush Cheney wrongs that were done to this country.