This Sunday’s New York Times Magazine features a long profile of Ron by Chris Caldwell of the Weekly Standard.
I’ll post the URL just as soon as it is publicly available (this is all there is now).
There are some nasty bits in the article, as well as the slight disdain that characterizes the Times when treating flyover country and any non-leftist, but it’s probably as fair a profile as could come out of the once pro-Stalin newspaper. For example:
“There is something homespun about Paul, reminiscent of ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.’ He communicates with his constituents through birthday cards, August barbecues and the cookbooks his wife puts together every election season, which mix photos of grandchildren, Gospel passages and neighbors
