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Ron Paul and Rick Perry are destined for one of the great clashes in Republican debating history that may lead to the mother of all Ron Paul money bombs. After Perry embarrassed himself by suggesting the Federal Reserve chairman is guilty of treason and then coming dangerously close to inciting violence against the Fed, Perry now pretends to be a monetary-policy expert by quoting things Ron Paul said decades ago.

If Perry wants to be the polyester Ron Paul, he should hire staff to fix his cue cards and teleprompter so he can at least be less than a decade behind Paul. Meanwhile, while Rick Perry does a polyester imitation of Ron Paul on monetary policy, he does an amateur imitation of Dick Cheney on foreign policy, sounding like a born-again neocon, appearing to look for new wars to fight.

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