Ron Paul Should Keep it Simple
by James Buchanan
During a recent debate, each candidate was given a chance to ask another candidate a question. Ron Paul asked John McCain about an obscure government office, that most people have never heard of. McCain went on to flub the response, suggesting that he knows little if anything about economics.
While some people have praised Ron Paul for exposing McCain’s economic ignorance. Others complain that Paul wasted an opportunity to make a much more important point. Ron Paul should have focused on the illegal alien problem or ending the Iraq War.
Never, never, never focus on some obscure intellectual topic that Joe Sixpack doesn’t understand.
Ron Paul should have asked John McCain something like: “Given the fact that illegal aliens take much more in government services than they pay in taxes, why did you support an Illegal Alien Amnesty Bill that would have made US citizens out of 20 million illegals?” (more…)