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Bradley in DC
06-03-2007, 10:33 AM
June 2 / 3, 2007

Ron Paul vs. the Throng

The Last of the Texas Outsiders

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/cockburn06022007.html

Paul is the last of the breed. As a small-government tight-money Republican this gynaecologist-obstetrician (4,000 babies claimed as a career total) regularly votes No on pork barrel projects that would put money into his own district. But as a Republican in the isolationist, libertarian tradition he also votes No, sometimes alone among the 535 members of the US congress, on war funding, on laws allowing US presidents to order arbitrary imprisonment, "coercive interrogation", suspension of freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. . .

This is the second time Paul has scored big in such debates, and it points to a potential crisis of credibility for both the Republican and Democratic Parties. A majority of Americans--65 per cent and up--hate the war in Iraq and think the US troops should leave. But the leading candidates from both parties fence-straddle at best, and also parrot Giuliani on the "war on terror". Hence the popularity of Ron Paul, as soon as he gets a national venue.

vertesc
06-03-2007, 02:38 PM
yay! I liked this article.