QL: He certainly seems to be raising the awareness of libertarian ideas.
Emery: Well, Ron Paul has increased the status of these ideas. You know, he's got zealots; he's got people with intensity. Those people will do stuff if he tells them to. So when he tells those 400,000 people to call their congressmen, it's gonna be a very busy day on Capitol Hill, let me tell you. And remember, he doesn't need to be re-elected in the fall. He has already got the Republican nomination for his congressional seat, and there is no Democrat running against him. So, he is in for another two and a half years. Boy, he is gonna get a lot more polite responses from his fellow congressmen than he's ever had before. That guy now has more clout than anybody but about ten congressmen in the entire House of Representatives.
John McCain is gonna get clobbered in the November election, and Ron Paul's gonna help him get clobbered because McCain is a warmongering old fool who doesn't understand anything about economics. He's completely unqualified. He's been an angry guy with a chip on his shoulder since he was in high school, and it's remarkable that he's even gotten the Republican nomination. But when you see that about three times more people voted for Democrat Barack Obama in the primaries than voted for John McCain, you know that any Republican is gonna get his ass kicked by Barack Obama in this fall election. So I think it's time for Ron Paul to show his clout, support the Libertarian Party candidate, Bob Barr, who once was a Republican. And it will be a very bad year for Republicans as they see desertions and all sorts of bad things happen to their party. The Republican Party will come out at the end of this year worse than they've been in 50 years. And the Ron Paul people are gonna have a hand in it, and they're gonna help remake that party. That party's not coming back to life again unless it becomes a party of fiscal conservatives.
