Jack Hunter discusses Ron Paul’s plan for one trillion dollars in federal spending cuts; why the rest of the Republican candidates won’t dare to touch Pentagon spending; why skeptics of government pronouncements about the economy nevertheless immediately believe lies in the foreign policy realm; how the “get government off your back” Republicans from the 1990s discovered their love of dictatorships and swapped their Jesus paintings for Dick Cheney portraits during the Bush administration; comparing the threat levels of the USSR (that occupied Eastern Europe) and Osama bin Laden (who occupied one room in an Islamabad flop house); the politics of patriotism and military service; and why Ron Paul may have a chance of winning, since the other candidates are so terrible.
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