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

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9. I appreciate that post, because you are looking at policy. Real policy advocated by these guys.

You are saying that an eradication of welfare programs, regulations and etc. could result in a lot of dead people too, and I agree with that. THAT'S THE POWER OF UNITED STATES POLICY, it can kill people or bring prosperity by the millions. But what's driving me crazy is that nobody else is attacking along those lines, its the same old garbage of somebody said something scandalous, or slept with somebody the shouldn't have, or said something which is contradictory to their public stance. Its this DC reality TV show, this realm of gods and goddesses, where one of them having an affair or saying the wrong thing can stop legislation in its tracks that could have benefited millions us mere mortals, but we were are less important than their turns of phrase.

So yes, I respect that. I think Paul's fiscal policies are insane, overtly insane. Out loud and proud insane. And I think that's way, way better than neocon covert insanity.

What happened from 2000-2008 is a the spending went so through the roof, the revenue got so cut, the economy so damaged that a situation was created where the only way to solvency is through major austerity actions, like cutting the welfare social safety net programs way down. Nothing that's going on now is coming close to touching the spending reductions that are now required. Its not a situation of the people of the US choosing a more minimal role of government in these things and picking a Ron Paul, its a situation of it being forced on them by whoever ends up holding the bag when the debt hits the fan, which may just as likely be a Democrat who has to do the dirty work. Its about the unwilling implementation of these policies, while tax revenue was handed to the rich, not back to the people. That's the neocon legacy.

I hear you saying "All right-wingers are dangerous monsters!" Watch Eisenhower's speech against the military industrial complex:

And tell me that Republican was really evil. What people are not seeing is that things have gone, way, way, WAY downhill to get us to the 2000-2008 situation. The neocon endpoint, is by my calculations, the worse thing for the country so far, and just about any movement the republicans take away from it, in any direction, is going to be positive for their party and the for the country.