Ron Paul...Shaking Shit Up...

Ron Paul is pretty much like Notre Dame football these days. Either you love 'em or you hate 'em and there's no middle ground.

Of course I love him because he's brought some interest to an otherwise weak GOP group of candidates who are tripping over each other to kiss Ronald Reagan's dead feet and throw out slogans like "we want to beat the enemy over there," etc. etc.

But Paul is a different bird and brings the thunder on a regular basis.

From Ace of Spades

"Since [Bush] wasn't satisfied with spitting on the 1st Amendment but regularly spits on the 4th as well, and even has problems with rights that date back to the Magna Carta, there are no grounds for considering the Republican party the party of our enumerated and unenumerated Constitutional liberties.

"I'm sorry if it's a hackneyed stereotype but when you take those things away I don't see what's left of the party except cornpone speaking in tongues about Jesus and a quite un-strategic-minded, un-realpolitik view of war that isn't much more
sophisticated than "these colors don't run" or somesuch."

And of course he's got some of America's biggest neo-cons on the run to smear him at every turn.

Why is the right (and occasionally the left I admit) so committed to the idea of unilateral groupthink? John McCain had the nerve to be slightly moderate in 2000 and the neo-cons went after him with full artilery and now Ron Paul, a guy who is somewhat justified in his criticism of this power-hungry administration, is going to be buried by the people he wants to represent.

Congressman Paul, you have a friend in me. Preach on brother.