Ron Paul: What’s in a Conservative?
filed in Blog on Nov.23, 2007
A wave of support for dark horse presidential candidate Ron Paul is sweeping the internet. In fact, it’s going so fast that it will be old news by the time I click “save” on this blog entry.
But, as with all things which move so fast, the sensation is more than a little misunderstood.
There are plenty of reasons to like Ron Paul. He’s the only Republican who’s against making the war in Iraq an eternal one, for instance. Even better, he’s the only candidate from either party who seems to understand the true politics of the Middle East, along with our involvement in them. (For those of you who don’t know, those are the politics of poverty, exploitation, and victimization — all seeming, to the uneducated, which the majority surely is, to come from the hands of the west.) And, while I’m sure most of the candidates understand these politics of cause and effect, Mr. Paul is the only one willing to talk about it, openly, to the American public. Read more…