Ron Paul belongs to that group of libertarians that Ayn Rand called “hippies of the right”–arch-conservatives who nonetheless dreamed of an anarchic America rather than a collective one.
Mr. Paul has been “blessed” (if that’s the word for it) by a straw poll held by the recent CPAC convention. The poll showed that a plurality of 31% of the conventioneers wanted Ron Paul to run for the presidency in 2012, ahead of the likes of Mitt “Waffles” Romney, Sarah “I never saw a job I didn’t want to quit halfway through during” Palin, and Minnesota governor Tim “completely clueless” Pawlenty.
However, one needs to consider material that was published with Mr. Paul’s blessings. Including in his rantings were such 1992 delicacies as:
“Order was only restored in L.A. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks three days after rioting began…”–in reference to the LA race riots in 1992 in response to Rodney King’s attackers being acquitted in court
and
“’I’ve urged everyone in my family to know how to use a gun in self defense. For the animals are coming.”– in reference to white urban dwellers facing “uppity blacks”
These are lovely thoughts, I am sure, especially to those wingnut wackadoodles that attend CPAC conventions.
