Get him off the stage so we can get back to the great American tradition of choosing between robots with rehearsed and predictable answers, says Bradley Blakeman.

After all, who needs a guy who predicted the housing collapse and the other Greenspan-induced horrors, who doesn’t merely flatter his audience (e.g., “We Americans are the awesomest of the awesome; God bless America!”), and who speaks foreign-policy truths the whole world knows but that no one in either major party would even consider uttering.  How thoughtless of Ron Paul to “distract” deep thinkers like Mitt Romney and Rick Perry, who might otherwise have had more time to tell us of their attachment to the bipartisan foreign-policy consensus and how committed they are to trivial spending cuts.