Lucille
12-06-2011, 05:19 PM
Doherty: Ron Paul, Still Rising (http://reason.com/blog/2011/12/06/ron-paul-still-rising)
As increasing awareness of the inherently low quality of the rest of the prospective GOP presidential field seeps across the minds of the populace, Ron Paul continues to get strange new respect and even stranger refusals to acknowledge his existence.
A survey of some of the latest:
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*A bit of a reach, yes, but Obama's much-ballyhooed Kansas speech today seems almost designed to run against Ron Paul, with a desperate repetition of the standard "market-failure" line about what Paul would argue was a monetary and regulation caused crash, and a frontal attack on not the actual policies of the Republican Party but on legal condictions before Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive era, you know, that 19th century that Paul's foes accuse him of living in.
As increasing awareness of the inherently low quality of the rest of the prospective GOP presidential field seeps across the minds of the populace, Ron Paul continues to get strange new respect and even stranger refusals to acknowledge his existence.
A survey of some of the latest:
[...]
*A bit of a reach, yes, but Obama's much-ballyhooed Kansas speech today seems almost designed to run against Ron Paul, with a desperate repetition of the standard "market-failure" line about what Paul would argue was a monetary and regulation caused crash, and a frontal attack on not the actual policies of the Republican Party but on legal condictions before Teddy Roosevelt and the Progressive era, you know, that 19th century that Paul's foes accuse him of living in.