It gets even weirder if you go back to early 2008 because you get a very specific type of person that only existed in that year and that was the obama stans that also thought ron paul was good
It gets even weirder if you go back to early 2008 because you get a very specific type of person that only existed in that year and that was the obama stans that also thought ron paul was good
He was an explicitly anti-war candidate in an era when every other candidate ran on "Bush is doing the war badly, elect me and I'll do it profesionally". IIRC he had a pretty groundbreaking (for the time) campaign ad where he compared the US's occupation of Afghanistan to China occupying the US. It seems to have been scrubbed off the face of the net, I'll try and hunt it down.
Of course, the mask fell off as time went by; he ended up being anti-choice, anti-any form of subsidized healthcare, and just all around yet another republican in pretty much every aspect, but politer.
EDIT: Found it! I loved this video at the time
Ngl that’s a pretty damn good ad. Also 👑 shit to compare anti-American insurgents to Americans fighting off Chinese troops in Texas.
oh fuck I remember watching that in my high school years lmao
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Indeed, but hey; some ten years later and the troops are out of Afghanistan, hopefully for good this time.