Ron Paul for VEEP

Oh, yeah, that's likely.

You're actually smoking it right this minute, aren't you?

I actually think the odds of that happening fall into negative percentage points.

I've been telling him this for ages.

?????

Remember that time you asked me to hook you up from 3000 miles away? I don't even smoke pot, dude.

Are you rooting for him because he said he'd legalize pot? Because I think that's why all the Digg kids love him.

The only people that scare me more than conservatives are libertarians.

He also wants to get rid of the income tax, if you really want to cum in your pants.

Yeah, apparently reading the 9/11 Commission's report is something of a rarity amongst Republicans. I wonder if they know you can get it on iTunes for free; makes a great audio book!

Most Libertarians are perfectly reasonable, disgruntled ex-Republicans. The ones that scare you are actually spoiled little shit-eating kids that play Libertarian because it's a relatively small, yet legitimate, party that can be manipulated into being whatever non-sensical thing they want it be.

My friend attended a gubernatorial primary and a bunch of "the young" pushed to nominate a photograph of Fidel Castro as comittee chairman.

And paper money, evidently.

Go figure.

Considering paper money really isn't worth the paper it's printed on, he's kind of got a point. Dollar bills used to be silver notes and worth their value in silver.

Actually, the idea of a mixed ticket (unlikely as it maybe) really appeals to me...

Ummm, yeah, and he thinks you can operate a 21st century industrialized republic with no government and no taxes. He thinks that racism is "collectivist", isolationism is relevant and viable for the worlds only superpower, that we should build a fence on the Mexican border and revive piracy.

"Deeply principled" does not preclude demagoguery, naiveté, and general iconoclastic lunacy.

Ummm, no, most libertarians are people who would like to be deep pocket Republicans, but lack the acumen and social skills, so they construct an ideology of "egalitarianism" to maintain the fiction that in a just world they'd be on top because they fancy themselves smarter than everyone else.

Archie Bunker: "I call this a representative government....Salvatore, Feldman, O'Reilly & Nelson....that's an Eyetalian, a Jew, an Irishman and a regular American, there...it's what I call a balanced ticket."

Well put. The guy's a loonball. Although his economic policies are basically neoliberal, at least domestically, I'll concede he's a different class of loonball than either the religious right or the neocons that we've been dealing with for the past few years - but he still belongs nowhere near a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I'd trust Dick Fucking Cheney to be more responsible.

Another excise tax? Your income bracket is showing.

Oh, I agree that marijuana should be legal, regulated, and taxed - and would probably work out to be cheaper. I just don't think we need any more regressive taxes instead of a progressive income tax.

Then again, I'm an unemployable Communist. Of course I'd think that.

Oh hey, let's not forget his stance on piracy.

He wants to bring it back!

Hey now, privateering is not piracy, and if you call a privateer a pirate, he's likely to make you walk the plank.

Really? Dick Cheney? Really? I get the feeling that Karl Rove has to hold back Dick Cheney sometimes.

Though, I do agree. He's far out there. He'd buy everybody a gun ("here you go little girl"), build a great wall of America and he thinks the market should be free to do whatever it wants (which is one of the major reason we're so involved in the middle east anyways not to mention the middle class shrinking even more). But I can see why his talking points are so attractive to the left. He's actually the closest thing left to an actual Republican (besides Clinton) and he's not wrong about the "war" on terror. I mean, it would be nice if this type of Republican was the left's actual political opponent as opposed to the neocons we have now. We're the post-9/11 world where the neocon ideology is king, even if the majority of Americans don't even realize it. I think it would be much less frustrating if the national debate was about worker's rights over working to maintain basic civil liberties and executing a flawed "war" on terror. Double-gitmo Romney anybody?

I don't want to jump in the Ron Paul love-fest bandwagon, but I gotta admit the guy is interesting. I mean, I don't want to see the libertarians running everything, but he just seems so much better than the rest of the GOP currently. He might be a loonball, but it seems like he's the least looniest of the Republican candidates.

What? You guys don't think this man can catch Bin Laden?

+1

I was starting to get worried...