MEET THE PRESS WITH RON PAUL - DECEMBER 23, 2007

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Meet The Press
December 23, 3007
Guest: Rep. Ron Paul
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Russert: do you want to get rid of teh income tax and IRS?

Ron Paul: oh yeah!!

Russert: what about the lost money?

Ron Paul: highwayman fees!

Russert: but that's stupid

Ron Paul: then cut spending

Russert: but that's a trillion dollars

Ron Paul: we should stop being the world's policeman man!

Russert: if you had a 30% sales tax that would kill poor pople

Ron Paul: ok then i'm against it

Russert: so how do we save money

Ron Paul: pull out of korea

Russert: how much would that save

Ron Paul: i don't know - like a lot dood

Russert: how many troops can we pull out of europe and asia

Ron Paul: i dunno

Russert: 500,000

Paul: really, wow!

Russert: what happens when north korea invades south korea?

Ron Paul: beats me

Russert: but what will you do when Iran invades Israel??

Ron Paul: Timmy that's not going to happen - Israel has 300 nukes for pete's sake

Russert: do you think Israel has influence on US foreign policy - oh noes!

Paul: yes i do dumbass

Russert: would really cut off aid to Israel?

Paul: of course but the arabs too - let 'em fight it out and put it on pay per view

Russert: how have we provoked Al Qaeda???

Ron Paul: do what Bush says - real their own statements -- we had troops in Saudi Arabia which is their holy land and we overthrew the Iran government and bombed Iraq

Russert: wow you're defending Al qaeda you say the problem is us and not them

Paul: we're stepping in a snake pit do you blame the snake and keep standing in the snake pit??

Russert: but the islamofascists!!!!

Paul: oh please

Russert: you're making moral equiavalency with islamists and white americans!!!

Ron Paul: have you met dick cheney that dood is crazy

Russert: i have information that right after 9/11 you were not waving a flag 24 hours a day - that seems subversive

Ron Paul: well dude of course i care about mass murder but my reaction was yes we are going to lose our freedoms

Russert: but you said that after 9/11 when we were all about loving the USA

Paul: but i was right!!

Russert: good point

Russert: you want to abolish the FBI and all public schools!

Ron Paul: we have to save money we're going bankrupt

Russert: but the FBI loves america

Ron Paul: they spied on martin luther king

Russert: but only because he was associating with subversives like George Romney and he was marching with ten year kids like little Mitty

Russert: dood you are up to your ears in pork barrel spending

Paul: I accept it but I would like to get rid of it

Russert: you're like saying you were for it and not against it

Paul: oh you silly journalist

Russert: so stop taking earmarks

Paul: that's silly i take tax credits and social security because it's there

Russert: you should refuse them

Paul: Tim by your standards no one could ever advocate for a change while obeying the law

Russert: i never thought of that

Paul: that's because you're an idiot

Russert: you're now against immigration

Paul: yeah but they’re taking all our free stuff and since 9/11 they might be murderers

Russert: you say you like people to follow the Constitution and yet you want to amend it!!

Paul: you really a moron aren't you?

Russert: people tell me that - but i have a house in Nantucket so i doubt it

Paul: drugs should be legal i mean who cares alcohol kills more people anyway

Russert: yeah but drinks have cool names like Tom Collins or Sex on the Beach

Paul: i'm a doctor i've seen the deaths it causes

Russert: you don't want black americans to eat at lunch counters???

Paul: property rights dood why should i let people i don't like in my restaurant!!?

Russert: sounds racist

Paul: it's out of control - smokers rights!!

Russert: do you hate blacks?

Paul: no i get more support from blacks that any other Republican

Russert: that's like being best player on the Miami Dolphins

Russert: you don't even like Abe Lincoln!!!

Paul: that's right that civil war was a tremendous waste

Russert: but we'd still have slavery

Paul: in 2007 - don't be ridiculous

Russert: why are you running as Republican??

Paul: hey i'm like that icon of Bob Taft you gotta cut spending unlike that traitor Ronald Reagan

Russert: will you run as an independent?

Paul: i have no plans to do so

Russert: that's a lot of wiggle room

Paul: i know dood

Russert: you said Mike Huckabee reminded you of Sinclair Lewis saying when fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross

Paul: yes i did

Russert: what does that mean?

Paul: what, fascism?

Russert: r u calling Cuddly Mike a fascist?

Paul: no im saying corporations owning the government plus people always demanding flag waving support for military action is soft fascism

Russert: well my bosses at General Electric think you're crazy