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So why would a progressive like me care about the Republican Debates? You’d think I’d rather be doing anything else. On the contrary, I enjoy it a lot and here is why:

I love a good comedy, especially a reality comedy. I find the republican primary debates are some funny shit. My main motivation is watch one honest man stand with a group of liars and be treated like the town drunk. Rep. Ron Paul is the one honest one of the bunch. It is fun to hear him speak to facts and truths that the other candidates are not willing to accept or allow into the public discourse.
The Republicans outside of Ron Paul live in a world slogans, talking points, and something I like to call illusion linguistics.
Illusion linguistics are lies that are believed to be true by so many, they create an illusion of truth. Some of the more famous ones…

“They hate us for our freedom”
The Truth: They hate us for our support of Israel, our military bases and influence in the Persian gulf, our unilateralist (at the end of the barrel of a gun) diplomacy, and our treatment of Muslim prisoners.
How do I know: Because that’s what they fucking said.
Now read the transcript from the debate in South Carolina

MR. GOLER: Congressman, you don’t think that changed with the 9/11 attacks, sir?

REP. PAUL: What changed?

MR. GOLER: The non-interventionist policies.

REP. PAUL: No. Non-intervention was a major contributing factor. Have you ever read the reasons they attacked us? They attack us because we’ve been over there; we’ve been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We’ve been in the Middle East — I think Reagan was right.

We don’t understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. So right now we’re building an embassy in Iraq that’s bigger than the Vatican. We’re building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting. We need to look at what we do from the perspective of what would happen if somebody else did it to us. (Applause.)

MR. GOLER: Are you suggesting we invited the 9/11 attack, sir?

REP. PAUL: I’m suggesting that we listen to the people who attacked us and the reason they did it, and they are delighted that we’re over there because Osama bin Laden has said, “I am glad you’re over on our sand because we can target you so much easier.” They have already now since that time — (bell rings) — have killed 3,400 of our men, and I don’t think it was necessary.

—- Ok makes sense me but wait here come Rudy trying to turn this conversation into something it’s not—

MR. GIULIANI: Wendell, may I comment on that? That’s really an extraordinary statement. That’s an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don’t think I’ve heard that before, and I’ve heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th. (Applause, cheers.)

And I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn’t really mean that. (Applause.)

MR. GOLER: Congressman?

—- More facts and truths—–

REP. PAUL: I believe very sincerely that the CIA is correct when they teach and talk about blowback. When we went into Iran in 1953 and installed the shah, yes, there was blowback. A reaction to that was the taking of our hostages and that persists. And if we ignore that, we ignore that at our own risk. If we think that we can do what we want around the world and not incite hatred, then we have a problem.

——- End transmission
Does Rudy think that Republican voters are 8 year olds? But he certainly insulted my intelligence, I hope some republicans were as offended as I was by his spin.
Now I will say that I was at one point in my life a libertarian like Ron Paul. I severed my ties headed more to the left of that party based on their stance on immigration and the fact that there are certain things socialism is best for and libertarians want so little government it’s almost like anarchy. Ron Paul is a libertarian but he is running on a republican ticket and has been elected as a republican rep from Texas. If Ron Paul was the Republican candidate, I’d probably vote Repub for the first time in my life. I think he’d be a better President than Hillary who seems more motivated by fame and fortune than real governance. Barack is still my preferred candidate but I doubt we will see a black president in my lifetime. I think it is time we had a smart person running things. It is going to take a lot of brains to fix all the things the retarded (special olympics) kid has fucked up since 2000.  Hopefully Americans will vote not for the candidate that is most like them IQ wise, and vote for a leader that can teach us all a thing or two. Barack did teach at University of Chicago Law School.