The typical Ron Paul speech is shot through with paranoia, grandiosity, and omnibus weirdness, but America's No. 1 libertarian extremist moves in from the margins when he talks about the country's current aversion to foreign entanglements. "Somebody said the other day on the Internet, if those Paul people had been in charge, Osama bin Laden would still be alive," Paul told an adoring crowd of fringe Republicans in late August. "But you know what I think the answer is? So would the 3,000 people on 9/11 be alive!"
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