High priests of pomposity pan Ron Paul
by Ilana Mercer
If you’ve missed the item about the politically incorrect newsletters published under Ron Paul’s name during the 1980s and 1990s, and unearthed strategically by The New Republic, it is because Beltway libertarians are just about the only ones still “spilling pixels” over the affair. Spilling pixels and beating breasts.
Especially inconsolable over the unsavory newsletters, none of which bore Ron Paul’s byline, are the Reason Magazine and Cato Institute claque – excrescences on the D.C. establishment both.
Ron Paul’s supporters are certainly not reaching for the smelling salts. They remain focused on the Paul platform. They understand that in Paul his opponents have found a man who’s led an exemplary life – has served his country and community, stayed married to his childhood sweetheart for 50 odd years, and is as devout a Christian as he is a constitutionalist. It’s not easy to impugn this impish, good-natured man, so mudslinging becomes a must.
6:21 am on January 18, 2008 Email James Ostrowski
