[dirtboy]

Regrettably there aren't enough libertarian-doers in Congress who would stop the decades of runaway-spending and cut the government down to constitutional size.

And Ron Paul talks the talk, but when it comes to inserting earmarks, he doesn't walk the walk. This will make your pointy little head explode, Rabs, but when it comes to earmarks, McCain is actually better than RuPaul (McCain more than makes up for it elsewhere in being a stinker, but Paul is hardly as pure as the driven snow when it comes to spending).

And I notice there is utterly no mention of Paul's antiwar moonbattery, which more than neutralizes any domestic sanity he promotes from time to time. And Paul is hardly alone in the libertarian movement in promoting such views.

[upchuck]

Why are y’all beating up Rabs?

Seems to me if you want to take issue with the article you should be beating up Bonnie Alba. She wrote it.

Y’all are unfairly shooting the messenger.

[diogenes ghost]

"....but when it comes to earmarks, McCain is actually better than RuPaul."

Earmarks are not inherently evil.

If the money being spent is for a Constitional need, a Congressman would be derelict in his duty to his district by not trying to bring it's share of Federal spending into his district.

Hence, there are good and bad earmarks.

Distinguishing between the two is where the rub lies.

[traviskicks]

IMO, paul is correct on his views of foreign policy, I am not sure why American taxpayers are providing for the defense of Germany and Japan and many others.