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Congress is not the libertarians' enemy
It's the Supreme Court and other constitutional scholars. A Paul presidency, while altogether unlikely, would be wholly unable to achieve anything that the man wants to achieve. Paul's campaign is based on declaring things unconstitutional based on a reading of the Constitution that's as narrow as his concept of moral responsibility. Unfortunately for the pauliannas, the president does not have the power to deem things unconstitutional. That's the power of the judiciary, the true enemy of libertarians and the one force specifically designed to counteract ideologues that ludicrously claim to channel the spirit of the Founding Fathers (by which they mean Jefferson).