If We Don't Talk About it It'll Go Away

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Don't believe me? Remember when Paul answered the question on ammending the constitution in order to allow foreign-born nationals to become president? Paul ended the statement by saying he supports the "original intent" and Chris Mathews can no longer hold back his contempt with an audible "oh God."

Matthews is a douche, no doubt about it, but seriously - people ARE sick of hearing of this "original intent" bullshit. We shouldn't base our lives off the exact words of a 231-year-old document any more than a 4000-year-old document. The constitution was designed as a living document (the founders' words, not mine) that was designed to have its meanings be flexible so that as times changes they could adapt.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

The whole Paul thing is a ruse anyway. Some very vocal supporters are spamming the Internet ways rather efficiently, pushing the stories onto Digg and voting in the online polls, but I never see a single Paul supporter in real life. That's why I suspect a giant covert ad campaign likely supported by a botnet.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I don't deny they exist - it's just that while I see piles of people publicly mentioning support or hatred for Clinton, Obama, Giuliani, and McCain, Paul is rarely ever mentioned except as "that libertarian nutjob who's got a few nice views but is way too crazy to take seriously".

Paul's marketting efforts on Digg and Reddit can hardly be declined - while in recent days Digg users have gotten fed up and started demoting as spam, there were a couple of solid months where 4-10 Paul stories made it to the front page each day and anyone daring to mention anything other than "ZOMG RON PAUL HAVE MY BEBIES" was rapidly dug down. We don't even Digg down Pro-RIAA people that fast - It HAD to be a botnet, plain and simple. Those online polls that Paulites keep pushing? They were listed on Digg and Reddit encouraging people who hasn't even watched the debates to vote for Paul.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I think this interview pretty much sums up why no one takes him seriously and why no one should. The man is against the existence of the CIA, thinks the civil war shouldn't have happened (apparently we're just supposed to allow people to secede at will), and thinks a privatized FAA could have prevented 9/11 (I especially loved his rant about how letting people have guns on planes could have stopped it, without regard for the fact that, you know, if you fire a gun on a plane the whole thing will decompress and all hell will break lose).

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

The plane wouldn't explode, but decompression WOULD occur and there are any number of serious side-effects associated with it.

Also, way to ignore the entire point.

How ya doing, buddy?

Yes. But depressurizing a cabin STILL makes the plane incredibly difficult to control, etc.

Look, the fact of the matter is this: Even if Brady's nuts enough to agree with Paul, 99% of America realizes that the Civil War was a necessary thing, the CIA's benefits far outweight its occasional mistakes, and that people on planes should not have guns. Paul is fucked up, plain and simple, and 100 percent unelectable.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by Bradylama

Paul's insistance that the Civil War wasn't necessary sounds crazy until he gives the argument for why it wasn't inevitable, which Maher couldn't counter. It's why he kept coming back to the Civil War despite all the good points that Paul brought up in the interview.

Maher didn't counter because he realized how nuts Paul was. Remember that the Southern states seceded and attacked first. What was Lincoln supposed to do, wave goodbye? The Civil War was absolutely, 100% necessary.

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You're trying to marginalise a candidate who's more of an intellectual than you give him credit for.

I don't CARE if he can dream up complicated political theories and has the brain of Einstein reborn - he's lost in lala land with absolutely NO connection whatsoever to the realities of the world. And so, apparently, are you.

FELIPE NO