Opinion of Lindsey Graham

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DB for DoucheBag.

The guy is even more viruently anti-libertarian than Huckabee and that's saying something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy48BKd-1TI

[Mechaman]

DB for DoucheBag.

The guy is even more viruently anti-libertarian than Huckabee and that's saying something.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy48BKd-1TI

Ron Paul isn't a libertarian, he's a paleo-conservative, and a wacky one at that (sorry, but...). Questionable associations with racists and 9/11 truthers and his "abolish the federal reserve" rhetoric are crazy. What Graham was saying was that radical libertarians like Paul aren't mainstream enough to win elections outside of rural Texas and Oklahoma. I don't like that he attacked all libertarians (I myself am a moderate one), but I think his point was that radical libertarians would destroy the party.

That's the point I'm making, not that Ron Paul is libertarian. Gary Johnson would qualify more as a libertarian than he or Bob Barr would.

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I don't see how proposing abolishing the fed is crazy. We functioned fine before we implemented quasi-central banking, and a lot of our problems now can be traced to the irresponsibly low interest rates Greenspan implemented. I'm not sure if I'd back having totally private currency, but obviously we have to overhaul the way we handle currency, loans, etc. Other than that I agree, Paul gets too much of a pass for his association with the Birchers and neo-Nazis like Don Black.

I'm not saying Paul is a total fruitcake, in fact I'm prone to agree that abolishing the fed is a good idea. However, I don't consider him "libertarian", everytime I refer to Dr. Paul I call him either a traditional conservative or a paleoconservative.