Republicans want more crazy

By Todd Stadler · Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:01am

Okay, that's it. I try to give Republicans the benefit of the doubt. I try to believe they're not all bat-freaking insane, that they're not all just gunning for war, war, and more war.

And then they go and prove me wrong. At last night's debate, here's what slim-chance candidate Ron Paul had to say:

So we don't need to go looking for trouble. We don't need another Cold War. And all we have to do is start talking to people and trading with people. We don't need to assume that the world is going to blow up.

It was at this point that the Republican audience started booing.

So what was it that upset them so? The suggestion of talking to other people? Trading with them? Or are Republicans gunning (perhaps literally) for another Cold War?

How's that saying go? The considered nutball of those I consider nutballs is relatively sane? Sheesh.