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Ron Paul: Last Conservative Standing |
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Friday, 25 January 2008 |
Perhaps my predictions of Ron Paul's demise were premature. I didn't expect Thompson to drop out of the race or that Huckabee would go broke and skip a few big states. Duncan Hunter and Tom Tancredo are out now too, so Ron Paul is last one who could possibly claim the title of "true conservative." Of course, Ron Paul's campaign is virtually destined to failure, and the fact that he's still going should be some validation for the effort of his supporters. The race is now between an old-school "moderate," two New England "Republicans," and a Bible-Thumping liberal. Oh yeah, and there's Ron Paul. His fiscal plan calls for nothing short of gutting the federal budget in overseas spending, freezing domestic (non-entitlement) spending, and deregulating markets from medicine to money itself. Is he crazy? Is he a nut?
Well, judging by our frontrunners Romney and McCain, I would say that if the Republican party thinks Ron Paul is crazy, then they have truly ceased to be conservative. If Ron Paul is crazy, so is the constitution that built the world's most influencial super-state. If his economic ideas are crazy, then so are the ideas that fuelled America's industrial revolution and early electronics industry. If personal liberty is insane, why did the founders of this incredibly successful system risk everything to pursue this freedom?
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 09 April 2008 )
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