Sad trombone… It looks like Ron Paul isn’t going to be officially nominated for the presidency in Tampa. His backers failed to win a plurality of delegate slots at the Nebraska GOP convention Saturday, leaving the Texas congressman short of the support necessary to have his name placed into contention at the national convention. According […]
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His campaign is still working with white supremacists. But, anyway, this stuff (whether past or present) just represents “character defects,” like adultery or something. He’s great o
Of course he was fully aware of and approved of the content of his racist newsletters: But people close to Paul’s operations said he was deeply involved in the company that produced the newsletters,
Ron Paul is the only candidate willing to take a stand against assassinating US citizens on the moon with drone strikes. Listen up, so-called progressives.
I decided to tune out the GOP primary coverage and return to Hockey Night In Canada once it became clear that Ron Paul’s speech would consist of reciting the entire first side of 2112 with exten
Freddie De Boer gives us a heartfelt defense of Paul-curiosity: I don’t know if that grave was one of the few to be opened and explored. Even now the Indonesian government broadly obstructs atte
I think some of the ways in which a generic Democratic president differs from a Republican are well-known to informed observers, if they tend to drop out of discussions of the topic. A Democrat will put better people on the NLRB, for example. The composition of the federal courts — not just the Supreme Court, […]
As Lindsay says, Katha Pollitt’s column on Ron Paul is excellent. I’ll quote another important passage: It’s a little strange to see people who inveigh against Obama’s healthcare compr
Alyssa notes something that people in Kentucky have been talking about for a while: Rand Paul’s potential Presidential candidacy in 2016. It’s an interesting problem. Rand surely has m
I think a couple commenters have been persuasive that I was too charitable toward Ron Paul, as my closing line implies that he’s having a meaningful and positive impact on the debate. It would probably have been better just to say that he is indeed better than Obama on a handful of issues in addition […]
Apparently, a twitter storm has broken out about the post I don’t want to get into, but Greenwald’s latest has a couple things I wanted to respond to on the merits, so I thought I’d
On trying to challenge Ron Paul in Texas. Obviously, Republican elites are starting to pay attention to these newsletters for opportunistic reasons. But is nonetheless true that he spent years publish