RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!
Posted at 1:39pm on May 2, 2008 I'll give the Ron Paul people this much, they sure are persistent (comments)
By Feddie
So, I get back from the gym today to find a package on my desk from Amazon. Now, I love getting packages from Amazon, but I hadn't ordered anything, so I was baffled as to what it could possibly be.
Well, I opened the box, and guess what some kind (albeit misguided) soul had sent me?
Yep.
Posted at 1:30pm on Mar. 25, 2008 Actually, Time, "nuts" was the *primary* consideration.
And, what: no link? We're all broken up inside.
By Moe Lane
In the process of raising many a heartfelt sigh for soon-to-be-officially-at-best-a-RiNO Ron Paul - you can endorse your ostensible Party's nominee any time now, Ron, and don't you think that you should be giving over some of that money to a candidate who can win? - and his wacky libertarian ways, Time.com mentions us! As usual, no direct link: God forbid that they should learn that tricksy HTML thing, or anything. Still, at least they got the name right. Lots of folks try to use RedState.org, in the mistaken belief that it doesn't redirect.
Anmyway, in the process of getting the record wrong, Time is forced to visit, however grudgingly, objective reality:
In fairness, though, another reason RedState's directors got tired of the Paulistas was that so many of them seemed — what's the polite word? — nuts. Paul's supporters aren't all black-helicopter paranoiacs, but the black-helicopter paranoiacs sure do support Ron Paul. The controversy over a few racist articles in his old newsletters was probably overblown; there's no evidence that Paul himself was ever a racist. But he is an extremist — partly in the Barry Goldwater extremism-in-defense-of-liberty-is-no-vice sense of the word, but also in the wacky let's-relitigate-the-currency-debates-of-the-1820s sense of the word. The late William F. Buckley wanted conservatives to stand athwart history yelling stop; Paul seems to want to slam history into reverse. The guy genuinely wants to abolish the Federal Reserve and start circulating gold again.
Mind you, this was only a brief segue into said objective reality; the author went right back to that comforting universe where we're all leaving the light on at night, just in case there's a Ronulan under the bed. Or something like that.
Funny: we seem to be getting a lot of people downright eager to tell us how scared we are, this election cycle. Yeah, yeah, I know: they did the same thing in '04. '06, for that matter - although, given the way that the Democrats urinated away their chance to change direction at the first sign of a scowl from the GOP (to the point that 2007 was, in some ways, one of our best years), one wonders who really won that one...
Moe Lane
PS: Any time now, Ron. There's a good loyal, member of the GOP. You are a good, loyal member of the GOP, right?
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