Ramsey on Will on Ron Paul

Bruce Ramsey’s article The Next President of the United States, in the May issue of Liberty, states:

We like Ron Paul, but about the best he could do is be noticed for one idea. George Will did a column about him, which amounts to serious notice, and one of the writers at LewRockwell.com thought it was an attack on the idea of limited government, which it wasn’t; but then it is difficult to satisfy some folks.

Ramsey’s appears to mean by this Justin Raimond’s related column on George Will’s column, linked on LRC (see also Lew’s post about Will’s condescending column).

So, Ramsey thinks Will is not against limited government and that this piece was not an attack on it? Consider Will’s sneering comment “Even before the Founders’ generation passed from the scene, the government was slipping off the leash that Madison said—and Paul says—the Constitution puts on it. (Where* did* Jefferson find constitutional authority for making the Louisiana Purchase?)”

Will is too smart not to know that there is no authority for the Louisiana Purchase. He’s here doing the wink-wink of modern mainstreamers that we obviously can’t adopt any theory that would oppose the Louisiana Purchase (and Lincoln’s War, the whole littany), so it’s “cute” that Paul has his pet theory, but we “all know better.” what a disgusting, snide piece.

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11:43 am on April 23, 2007