NYTimes - A Texan in Washington Who Hasn’t Gone Native

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A Texan in Washington Who Hasn’t Gone Native

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/us/17ttramsey.html

just a piece of it:


He’s got a new kind of competition this time around. Mr. Paul spent years sounding like a crackpot or a fringe case, spouting ideas that were outside the boundaries of mainstream Republican thinking. That’s one reason his supporters love him — he’s a fearless iconoclast who sticks with his ideas even when everyone around him is wishing he’d sit down and be quiet. Now, however, many of his ideas have taken root. He’s clearly one of the intellectual uncles of the Tea Party movement, and that bunch clearly has many Republican politicians crying uncle. The problem for Mr. Paul is that many of his ideas have been appropriated by the kinds of mainstream Republicans who used to snort when he talked.

But then at the end it asks 'why him'? Which should be obvious, even from what the article says, but there is no curing stupid.

[rp08orbust]

The article needs another correction: Ron Paul's Senate race was in 1984.

[Paul4Prez]

This quote is good:


Mr. Paul is probably the most consistently anti-Washington politician in all of Washington.


This one is stupid, since the fundraising numbers show Ron Paul has a larger national following than the other candidates:


even one with a small but devoted national following


And most newspapers never dare mention this:


His best results that year were in the border states — on the other side of the country: Washington, Idaho, Montana and North Dakota each gave Mr. Paul more than 20 percent of their votes in primaries or caucuses.

[low preference guy]

NYTimes - A Texan in Washington Who Hasn’t Gone Native

Is there any possible interpretation other that "Texans are backward rednecks and brutes"?

[Patrick Henry]

Of course they need to throw this kind of crap in.


Mr. Paul seems less concerned with winning the nomination and getting himself into office than with infecting everyone else with his philosophy and policy notions.

[Anti Federalist]

Of course they need to throw this kind of crap in.


Mr. Paul seems less concerned with winning the nomination and getting himself into office than with infecting everyone else with his philosophy and policy notions.



To a virus or bacterium, yes, the cure, highballing down the body's veins to wipe your sorry ass out, it would appear to be an "infection", from that point of view.