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Canuckistanian

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7. You know what I didn't like about him?

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Thu Jan 3, 2013, 09:17 PM

Jan 2013

The mesmerizing effect he had on people who should have known better.

Paul was practically a full-blown Repub who was a pro-corporate, anti-abortion, anti-immigrant government-hater who just happened to be anti-war and against drug prohibition.

But he screamed "freedom" and "liberty" so often, low-information voters flocked to his fuzzy messages.

There was nothing so "revolutionary" about Paul. He just found a new angle.

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