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fj45lvr
11-13-2007, 10:00 PM
they printed this as a selected "COMMENTARY" in my local paper here in Oregon.

Should I send in a rebuttal to this B.S. smear???

From Dallas Morning News

A Gadfly with Wings

Like it or not – and the Republican Party certainly does not – the Ron Paul phenomenon is real.

Paul supporters raised an astonishing $4.3 million in a 24-hour Internet blitz Tuesday that set a one-day Republican record. This was quite a windfall for a candidate who stands far outside the GOP mainstream and whose poll numbers are in the basement.

The physician-turned-10-term-Texas-congressman remains the longest of long shots for his party's nomination, and rightly so. His opposition to the Iraq war and his isolationist foreign policy convictions alienate most rank-and-file Republicans. His unorthodox economic views (Dr. Paul wants to return to the gold standard) make him an eccentric. Even so, his positions on abortion, gun rights, illegal immigration and free trade deals resonate with the populist right.

Aside from his anti-war stance, Dr. Paul's actual opinions probably matter little to his passionate supporters. What energizes many of the libertarian's backers, especially the young, is his crusty integrity and refusal to play the pandering politician. "He has a set of principles applied consistently," says Reason magazine's Nick Gillespie. "He's not a [b.s.] artist."

Dr. Paul won't be the Republican nominee, but his money and his appeal in a year of serious Republican voter discontent could affect the primary contest. A strong showing in libertarian-friendly New Hampshire could deliver a mortal blow to some rival candidates.

Dr. Paul has promised no third-party run in the general election, although he could peel away enough voters from either party to decide a close race. GOP regulars wish the Texas gadfly would disappear, but is the party really in such strong shape that it can sneer at a man who runs on nothing but his ideas and an uncompromising commitment to them?

The Republican Party once produced a principled libertarian presidential candidate widely denounced as a crackpot. Barry Goldwater lost badly, but the seeds he planted in that 1964 campaign later bore fruit – especially among his idealistic young campaigners – and changed American politics forever. Hey, you never know.

Visual
11-13-2007, 10:21 PM
Yeah... reply..

But reply logically and with reason.