bobbyw24
02-15-2011, 06:30 AM
On Civil Liberties, War, Crony Capitalism: Ron Paul Is Saying Some Things Democrats Should Be Saying
He may have been hinting to a cheering crowd that he will run again for the Republican presidential nomination—a prospect the crowd found appealing, as Paul won the conference’s straw poll with ten times as many votes as Sarah Palin.
That unsettled some CPAC attendees. The defenders of the conservative orthodoxies of the moment—as opposed to the Old Right stances Paul echoes—can’t figure out his appeal. To their view, he’s off-message on everything from the war on terror to Wall Street. And they dismiss his backers as hooligans.
But what unsettles mainstream conservatives ought to interest mainstream progressives.
Indeed, those who would like to see the Democratic Party stand for something other than a soft variation on Republicanism might want to take a few cues—no, not all their cues, just a few—from Ron Paul.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/158517/civil-liberties-war-crony-capitalism-ron-paul-saying-some-things-democrats-should-be-say
He may have been hinting to a cheering crowd that he will run again for the Republican presidential nomination—a prospect the crowd found appealing, as Paul won the conference’s straw poll with ten times as many votes as Sarah Palin.
That unsettled some CPAC attendees. The defenders of the conservative orthodoxies of the moment—as opposed to the Old Right stances Paul echoes—can’t figure out his appeal. To their view, he’s off-message on everything from the war on terror to Wall Street. And they dismiss his backers as hooligans.
But what unsettles mainstream conservatives ought to interest mainstream progressives.
Indeed, those who would like to see the Democratic Party stand for something other than a soft variation on Republicanism might want to take a few cues—no, not all their cues, just a few—from Ron Paul.
http://www.thenation.com/blog/158517/civil-liberties-war-crony-capitalism-ron-paul-saying-some-things-democrats-should-be-say