I was interested in what Ron Paul had to say until I considered it carefully. Then I was able to spot that he was just a Crackpot that was from an area of Texas where there is a ton of individual oil money that wants the IRS abolished.

Rand Paul is not hated by anyone I know. He is just thought to be unrealistic and ignorant. He lives in a world of his own making where facts don't really matter and he thinks that if everyone would just listen to him and do what he says all our problems would be over.

But if you really sit down and pay attention to what he wants to accomplish you will understand that if the US only put 50% of what he wants in place our problems would just be beginning.

He's all hat and no cattle. He speaks of complicated subjects in a way that sounds nice to those that do not understand such things and they fall all over him. He reminds me of the guy that decided to make his car get better mpg by blocking all the air intakes in the front of his car and then wondering why his car is overheating.

And his 'Audit the Fed' sounds great if you don't understand the Fed. But if you do you might wonder how this would come about since there is nothing to audit. And if you press him on the subject he just dissolves into what Scalia calls 'arlgle-bargle'.

If Paul runs for President it will make for lively debate watching. Between him and Rick Perry it will be even money as to which one makes a bigger Fool of themselves.

My money's on Rand.:D

Me, too.

Perry just got a new batch of advisors and they seem to really be giving the old boy a makeover. I watched him on CNN Sunday morning and he seemed calm and composed and sounded like he knew what he was talking about. Most of what he said was focused group talking points, but if you were not keeping up with him you would not know this and think Rick had suddenly found a brain.

Then a Democrat came on and totally demolished everything Perry had just said.

It made me think of the debates. When Perry is preaching to the choir they all swoon, but if he is standing next to someone who is allowed to speak to the subject his line of baloney falls apart in a few seconds. When he is on that debate stage no other Republican is going to cut him any slack and he will resort to saying 'Ooooppppsss!' again. I predict that no one will find this funny.

And in a historical note...... Ed Wynn had a fallback line that he always used when his second banana forgot their lines. The SB would let Wynn know they needed a line when they would repeat back to him what he just said. So Wynn would repeat the line again and the SB would do the same. After three times Wynn would just look at the folks and say, "I can't remember what comes next, either!", and then just laugh it off.

That works in live theater if you are a comic, but if you do it in a Presidential Debate it won't make you a comic but it will sure make you look comical.

What is it with Texan presidential candidates? Do Texan election laws require that they crawl into one of those big rodeo barrels and get knocked about by a bull for a few weeks before they can be presented to the national electorate?

Why do republicans hate JR?

Jolly Roger has given 'em hell, that's why....;)

Where is ole JR anyway?
His absence really deflates the neo-cons stance that OD is all bleeding heart liberals...

LBJ, John Connolly, Joe Wilson, James Baker, Ron Paul, DeLay, and Shiela Jackson Lee.

What's not to find entertaining? I mean, except for the whole Viet Nam War and Kennedy assassination thingie.

Actually Joe Wilson is from South Carolina. You might have been thinking of Charlie Wilson who was from east Texas.

One Texas who was rather popular in his day was Gov. Jim Hogg, who is famous for saying, "Let's have Texas governed by Texans, not by corporate lobbyists."

He also had a daughter named Ima. The story that he had another daughter named Ura is a political joke.

^^^ Yeah, Charlie. My favorite is Sheila. You guys can sure pick'em.

My money's in the KruggerRand.

I wish

All the hard core liberals are banned now.

We seem to have a really good supply of Right wingers though.

Quantity doesn't always trump quality.