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Liberty_Mike
06-07-2011, 10:05 PM
Article from the New York Time's today about the recent Anti-War stance in the Republican party. Mostly focuses on Walter Jones, but mentions Ron Paul and the tea party freshman.

GREENVILLE, N.C. — On matters like abortion, military spending and religion, Representative Walter B. Jones seems thoroughly in tune with this conservative, staunchly Republican district in eastern North Carolina, home to the Marine Corps’ Camp Lejeune and thousands of military retirees.

On the issue of war, however, Mr. Jones has defied typecasting. An early critic of the American invasion of Iraq, he has been ostracized by the Republican leadership in Congress. And now he is emerging as a leading advocate for swiftly withdrawing American forces from Afghanistan, a position that has made him, of all things, a liberal hero.

Continued - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/07/us/politics/07jones.html