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Ron Paul releases "Greatest Hits" album of batshit crazy comments at Virginia rally for the Cooch.

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/11/ken-cuccinelli-ron-paul-urges-nullification-virginia-governor-2013-election-99358.html

Headlining the final rally of Ken Cuccinelli’s underdog campaign for Virginia governor, Ron Paul suggested the “nullification” of Obamacare on Monday night.

“Jefferson obviously was a clear leader on the principle of nullification,” the former Texas congressman said of the third president. “I’ve been working on the assumption that nullification is going to come. It’s going to be a de facto nullification. It’s ugly, but pretty soon things are going to get so bad that we’re just going to ignore the feds and live our own lives in our own states.”

Then came Paul. Free associating, he touched virtually every libertarian erogenous zone in his riff.

He tore into the Constitution’s 17th Amendment. Ratified in 1913, it’s the one that allows for the direct election of U.S. senators by popular vote.

“That undermined the principle importance of the states,” said Paul.

He criticized the 16th Amendment, which allowed the federal income tax.

After the crowd chanted “End the Fed,” Paul decried the printing of more money by the Federal Reserve.

“We need someone to stand up to the authoritarians,” he said. “They’re dictators.”

He stressed that the constitutional “right to keep and bear arms” was not for hunting, but to allow rebellion against tyrannical governments.

“The Second Amendment was not there so you could shoot rabbits,” he said. “Right now today, we have a great threat to our liberties internally.”

Paul also talked extensively about the health law, which he believes unfairly forces some who don’t need insurance to subsidize medical care for others.

“The taxes involved there, they’re evil,” he said. “They’re going to create class warfare, generational warfare.”

Seems like Ron Paul was working some kind of improv jazz version of Libertarianism last night.
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