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I've argued before that many of the worst violations of personal liberty (root word of liberal) are currently from the executive branch: War mongering, domestic spying, drug war, etc. President Paul could immediately have an impact in stopping these things. And would do a better job ending them than most of the democratic candidates.

But he would still have a tough time putting an end to public schools, social security, etc. because these would require a democratic or republican congress to pass a bill to be put in front of him. That would be a lot of work to get that many politicians to ignore the popularity of all these programs and put an end to them in 4 or even 8 years.

So a Paul presidency is high reward, low risk for social leaning libertarians.

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Word, that's pretty much my exact thinking.

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He has no particular desire to go after social programs anyway. He understands that there's only so much that can realistically be accomplished. Of course, when I say that, I'm not including stuff like the Department of Education, which is pretty much pure bureaucracy rather than social program.