Because he’s one of the few, if not the only, in either party with the cojones to write this:
Generations of conservatives followed the great advice of our Founding Fathers and pursued a restrained foreign policy that rebuffed entangling alliances and advised America, in the words of John Quincy Adams, not to “go abroad looking for […]

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Reading the bit about the upcoming Lancaster tea party this morning, and we get to this:
Teresa Casalino, a Manheim Township resident and a co-organizer of the rally, said the complaints aired at similar events cover many subjects but can be placed together under the umbrella term “personal freedom.”
“It’s against big government and big spending and […]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygg2uWsKK6w

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New Hampshire GOP pulls out of Fox debate tomorrow night because Fox insists on excluding Ron Paul.
Paul’s polling better than Fred Thompson in the state - but Old Fred is permitted to participate. Because, you see, he hasn’t badmouthed our Great Patriotic War.

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Once again via TPM, we see that even the New Hampshire Republican Party has called upon “all media organizations planning pre-primary debates or forums” - which would presumably include Fox News - to “include all recognized major candidates in their events.”
Says Josh:
So, it’s all about Fox News. Paul’s out because he’s not a Fox News Bush-clone. Say […]

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Well, why else would the network be excluding him from its upcoming debate? Whether the network thinks him “serious” or not (and they should, based on his fundraising totals) - it seems fishy, to say the least, to consciously exclude the candidate who frankly is generating more heat than virtually any other Republican.
But maybe we […]

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It’s really difficult to fit this much gee-whiz cluelessness into a single piece. But Jonah Goldberg, firing wildly on all cylinders, gets the job done.
First, we get the straight-faced denial that the United States is an empire. Then we get the acknolwedgement that, well, sure we have lots off military bases in other countries. (Chalmers […]

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Juan Cole on McCain’s equating Americans who don’t think we should be invading and occupying Muslim countries with Hitler appeasers - and Ron Paul’s brief, devastating answer:
Paul: He doesn’t even understand the difference between non-intervention and isolationism. I’m not an isolationism, (shakes head) em, isolationist. I want to trade with people, talk with people, travel. […]

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This is worth linking to on the basis of the author’s characterization of the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate - the entire legislature, really - as “Hillary’s temple of eunuchs.”
But there’s a lot more here, and I think he really gets at why Ron Paul has gained such popularity:
Granted that the majority of moron America stays glued […]

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Il Dunce makes a funny. Or maybe his speechwriters do.
Sullivan, yesterday, made the succinct point here:
I’ve now heard Dodd and Clinton say that the president takes an oath to defend the Constitution and the territory and people of the United States. This is the president’s oath of office:
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will […]

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What Glenn Greenwald said:
So there is at least something in Paul’s worldview for most people to strongly dislike, even hate, if they are so inclined. Yet that apparent political liability is really what accounts for the passion his campaign is generating: it is a campaign that defies and despises conventional and deeply entrenched Beltway assumptions […]

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Wow. Via LewRockwell’s LRC blog: It was big news when Ron Paul took in nearly $20,000 in military donations last quater.
Figures are out for this quarter: Paul doubled his take to $40,416.72. His nearest Republican rival, John McCain, collected $21,358.
This is called voting with your wallet. Tell me again about how the troops want to […]

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Sullivan’s been going back and forth with readers on this. Paul obviously has about zero chance of securing the Republican nomination. But that doesn’t really diminish his significance:
Paul’s greatest service in this election would be to force the Republican candidates to explicitly embrace the policies of George W. Bush in ways that they would have […]

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Hmm. The military famously tilts conservative, or so we are assured by conservatives. But money-wise that may be changing, suggests a new poll showing that “members of the U.S. military have dramatically increased their political contributions to Democrats, marching sharply away from the party they’ve long supported.”
And as The Plank notes, the most interesting aspect […]

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This is why I like Ron Paul. Bill O’Reilly tries to bully him and Paul’s having none of it:
“Do you fear Iran intruding on the whole Persian Gulf if the United States — as you asked for in the debate last week — left the region?” O’Reilly demanded.
“I fear that they might want to do […]

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On last week’s debate:
My opponents called for more war, more torture, more secret prisons, more eavesdropping, more presidential power. Some seemed to identify the government and the people as if they were one entity. But you and I know that once the government moves beyond its very limited constitutional mandate, it is an opponent of […]

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One of them, anyway. The one who most certainly won’t win the nomination.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iStNuhCA-5s

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Now, this one is interesting. Conservatives are fond of claiming that the military itself supports the Leader and his war. William Marina produces some figures showing that “more than half of the Military and Veterans donating funds to the Republican Party candidates gave their monies to one candidate, Dr. Ron Paul.”
Paul is, of course, the […]

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One of my newest bookmarks is the Lew Rockwell blog, Rockwell being founder and president of the Mises Institute in Auburn, Ala., a libertarian think tank, and vice president of the Center for Libertarian Studies in Burlingame, Calif. He is “an opponent of the central state, its wars and its socialism.” And in one respect […]

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