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You point out that Niewart got Ron Paul's stance on the flagburning issue wrong, then you spend over ten paragraphs complaining about people calling Paul a "fruitcake?"
That's all you got?
Look, I don't know whether Ron Paul is crazy or not. I don't generally equate political views I dislike intensely with mental illness. But it's profoundly dangerous to underestimate the radicalism of what he espouses and the serious damage it could do. Pointing at other candidates and saying, "they espouse dangerous things too!" impresses me not one whit, and I have absolutely no interest in how sincere Paul is. The simple fact is that his vision of government is one that would leave minorities, the poor, and the sick as high and dry as they would be under the neocons.
He's not the "lesser" of two evils. He's just another evil.
