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Ron Paul is a squirrel. Like all squirrels, he's adorable and like all squirrels, he really, really has limitations. I am something of a libertarian in my liberalism but I do believe that we need a government. We need one that works, of course, and the one we have now is in Intensive Care on a respirator but we do need services performed. We don't need a government standing watch over the various orifices of our bodies with anxious care lest we use them in ways not sanctioned by the religious right but we do need a government to protect our rights against such anxious overseers.
I like Ron Paul, don't get me wrong. I just don't want to see him within the same zip code of the Presidency. He has misread the Constitution and, although he is sincere about protecting it, the aim is not to destroy the government it set up but to make it work.
