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Why do certain Republicans insist on calling those they disagree with socialist? Could this be why conservative candidates for president are becoming a weird national spectacle in 2012, and why conservatives just suffered a severe shellacking in Ohio? When Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says Elizabeth Warren and public schooling are socialist, he is way out of line with mainstream USA.

Here is Ron Paul's problem. I have praised him for saying that there are valid grievances by those who believe that some wealth is unjustly earned by those who game the system. But then Paul turns around and takes libertarian ideology to such an extreme that he becomes an advocate for policies giving unjust windfall profits to those who game the system.

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