Earlier this week on CNN, former Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) appeared on CNN to weigh in on the 2016 presidential election. Paul discussed the ongoing saga of the battle for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. However, he also told CNN host Ashleigh Banfield that given the choice between Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton, he would opt for “none of the above.” Transcript as follows: BANFIELD: My next guest, is the RNC deserves every bit of the distress that it’s in Ron Paul, former Republican congressman from Texas, two time candidate for president, joining me live from the Texas community at Lake Jackson. Thank you so much for joining me, I do appreciate this. And when you say that the GOP deserves every bit of the mess it’s in, do you truly believe that? PAUL: Well, I do. But I don’t think it’s all that important. Because, you know, rules are there, they change them, they have done it. I think the interesting thing is that there was so much concern about me, you know, we had a good following, there was a lot of strength there. But they didn’t need to do all that