Ron Paul and a ramble

Is the only republican candidate who speaks in the ancient tounge of reason and logic. It is interesting that the title of the you tube posting is "Rudy gives Ron Paul a smackdown". Rudy's fantastic smackdown consists of an absurd argument from some imagined authority just because he was there and calling the ideas absurd, never addressing their merit at all. When pandering to the base, logic and reason really have no place in the debate discussion of Iraq, or evolution, or global warming, or hiring practices, or AIDS programs... but of course it is just that my notion of rational argumentation comes from a limited rationality! Their rationality is just following another culturally specific logic that has just as much right to be right as my rationality! We have almost arrived into the post-modern world, and by that, I mean we have come full circle, from pre-modern to modern and then to pre-modern again where everything was beautiful and marriages were arranged, women knew their place, families were all happy and trusting, people attended civic organizations, we were the immigrants, with the only differencing being a candy-coated covering of tee-vee american idol democracy over our authoritarian government.