Monday, March 7th, 2011
During a brief radio interview on Monday, conservative political commentator and frequent Fox News guest Dick Morris said he strongly opposed Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul due to the congressman's stance against the drug war and war on terrorism.
"I think he’s horrific," Morris told Peter Schiff, who was an economic adviser to Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign. "He wants us to end the war on drugs. He wants us to end the war on terror."
Rep Paul, who describes himself as a libertarian, drew thunderous applause for bashing the Patriot Act, US aid to foreign nations, and US military bases overseas during his speech at the 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference in February.
Unlike the vast majority of his Republican colleagues, Rep. Paul has been a vocal opponent of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well a supporter of drug legalization.
"We should drug test every high school student," Morris continued. "We should drug test everybody that gets a student loan. Anybody that’s using drugs should not get a government student loan."
After Schiff questioned drug testing students and began talking about eliminating student loans, Morris told him to "talk to yourself for the next 15 minutes" and hung up.
"What kind of police state does Dick Morris want to turn this country into?" Schiff pondered after Morris hung up on him. "It's really not a war on drugs, it's war on civil liberties."
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