Jon Stewart gave some free campaign advice to presidential aspirant Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) last night, telling him that to all he has to do to secure the Republican nomination is give up his convictions like he says John McCain did, becoming a “shell” of his former self.
Reflecting on last week’s Republican debate, Stewart said Paul had missed a prime opportunity to leapfrog the competition by saying what he believed rather than saying what he believed the audience wanted to hear.
“All you gotta do is compromise your libertarian principles a bit, feed these people some Christian conservative red meat,” Stewart said. “You know, ‘life begins at conception and ends at our borders,’ and, ‘the three most important people in the world are Reagan, Jesus and Reagan again.'”
Stewart then used that as a launching point to criticize the last GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) for, Stewart said, pandering at the expense of his morals.
“WWJMD — What Would John McCain Do?,” Stewart said. “All you have to do is take the principles that made you a respected iconoclast and distance yourself from them.”
But after watching Paul call for the legalization of heroin, Stewart realized he would never be a politician like McCain.
“You keep this up and you’ll never end up a shell of your former self,” Stewart said, as a picture of McCain appeared on screen.
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