Cross of Gold, Baby!
Your next President, Ron Paul. Say hello to hard money and inbound troop transports.
Not really, of course, but it’s possible that a protest constituency could coalesce around Paul the way it did around Pat Buchanan in 1992, which could keep him viable late into the primary season. And if the other candidates continue the schoolyard-bully treatment that Rudy “Bludgeon and Castor Oil” Giuliani tried out this week, Paul will have no reason to call his, er, insurgency off the way Buchanan eventually did.
Or, you know, he’ll flame out before that can happen. But as Julian says, with Paul in the race, the other candidates can’t get away with as much double-speak. This has the advantage of clarifying what they and what remains of their political party stand for, though with the disadvantage of creeping the rest of us out.
Comment by James Joyner —
May 19, 2007 @ 6:59 am
I’m not so sure. Rudy Giuliani hit a grand slam home run with the base by his clever if disingenuous attack on Paul’s contention that al Qaeda attacked us for our foreign policy.
Comment by Thoreau —
May 19, 2007 @ 9:03 am
The problem with Ron Paul is that he’s so pure, so logical, and so bad on camera that he provides a convenient strawman for Rudy Giuliani and others to burn.
Comment by G'Kar —
May 19, 2007 @ 6:30 pm
I think it’s too much to hope that Paul will last long. Never underestimate the power of demagoguery over reason.
Trackback by Making Light —
May 19, 2007 @ 8:10 pm
Reassessing Ron Paul…
Okay, maybe I was a bit quick to apostrophize Ron Paul. As Mona observes at Unqualified Offerings (home of the……