An old friend said to me yesterday, “So tell me about this Ron Paul…”
This is a fine, thoughtful and even-handed article from Christopher Caldwell from the New York Times. It does a better job than I could. See what you think.
The antigovernment activists of the right and the antiwar activists of the left have many differences, maybe irreconcilable ones. But they have a lot of common beliefs too, and their numbers — and anger — are of a considerable magnitude. Ron Paul will not be the next president of the United States. But his candidacy gives us a good hint about the country the next president is going to have to knit back together.
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Dear New York Times,
Thank you for running articles about Ron Paul. He is America’s hope. I do not agree with him on the foriegn wars but he has too many other things I agree with him on to reject him as my candidate for President. I do however find it irritating that you make him out to be someone that cannot win. This is one thing I don’t like about the elections with all the polls taken before hand. I would that for 60 days before elections there would be a ban on publishing these polls so that people could really vote for the man and not the ones picked by the media and the party elites!