Douglass Bartley
07-11-2007, 05:09 PM
Ron Paul: Beginning of Old Right Renewal
From: http://rxpaul.townhall.com
Ron Paul: The Conscience of Conservatism
Posted by Justin Raimondo on July 11, 2007
He’s the conscience of the Republican party, or, at least, of its conservative wing – a reminder of the good old days, when being a right-wing GOPer meant never having to say you voted to raise taxes, or to increase the size of Big Government. When it meant a prudential foreign policy, rather than a Jacobin one rooted in recklessness. Rep. Paul remembers those days, and his campaign for the White House is based in large part on a conscious effort to revive this nearly-forgotten conservative tradition.
[. . . For the rest of the Raimondo article, see http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_paul_the_conscience_of_conservatism1/]
From: http://rxpaul.townhall.com
Ron Paul: The Conscience of Conservatism
Posted by Justin Raimondo on July 11, 2007
He’s the conscience of the Republican party, or, at least, of its conservative wing – a reminder of the good old days, when being a right-wing GOPer meant never having to say you voted to raise taxes, or to increase the size of Big Government. When it meant a prudential foreign policy, rather than a Jacobin one rooted in recklessness. Rep. Paul remembers those days, and his campaign for the White House is based in large part on a conscious effort to revive this nearly-forgotten conservative tradition.
[. . . For the rest of the Raimondo article, see http://www.takimag.com/site/article/ron_paul_the_conscience_of_conservatism1/]