In the last GOP debate, one of Fox News’ borg drones implied that Ron Paul, for the apparent sin of opposing a pointless war, isn’t a “real” Republican.  Last night, he took it where I would’ve:

Rep. Ron Paul of Texas said he objects to government subsidies for the oil industry and hammered the Bush administration over its motivation for war in Iraq.
“Why did we go to the Middle East?” he said. “Our foreign policy is designed to protect our oil interests. We succumbed to the temptation of going out and fighting war [to secure oil interests].” (emphasis mine)

In a way, what was meant to be an insult actually made sense if you take it further.  No one can realize the true purpose of US foreign policy & still approve of the political status quo, so whether he realizes it or not, Ron Paul is helping people acknowledge the moral bankruptcy of politics itself.  They’ll notice that anyone who says similar gets ostracized from both parties and branded as a kook, and eventually find themselves thinking “wow, seems to me like the entire system is the problem”.