An interesting endorsement from a conservative:
As for the notion, which I admit I settled on in my July piece, that there is no way Paul could win: Well, possibly so, but Paul is good enough, and his ideas are good enough — and close enough to Buckley-Goldwater conservatism—that those of us who cleave to that conservatism ought to take the wonderful opportunity offered by a presidential campaign to help promote them to the electorate.
If you think that our efforts against jihadist terrorism constitute World War Four (I don’t), you will not want Ron Paul for president. (Jonah Goldberg’s article “The Tradition of Ron Paul” in the Dec. 17 issue of National Review is key reading in that context.) If you think there would be a whole world of difference between what Hillary Clinton would accomplish in the Rome-of-the-Borgias down there on the Potomac, by comparison with what Rudy, or Fred, or Mitt would accomplish, you won’t be supporting Paul.
If, however, you think that much of the underbrush that has grown up around our national institutions this past 40 years needs to by pulled up by the roots and burned, before it chokes the life out of our Republic, then Paul’s your man.
December 11th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
National Review just this afternoon voted to endorse Mitt Romney for President.
Not a bad choice to unify all the varying factions of the GOP including libertarians/fiscal cons.
December 11th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Romney…Mr Im not as Big Government as Huckleberry..man, you can tell Buckley has left the building.
December 21st, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Romney unifying the libertarians in the party? Uh, no. I recall dumb-dumb frat boy Mitt Romney interrupting Ron Paul TWICE while Ron Paul was answering a question: “He forgot about nine eleven….he forgot about nine eleven…” I must say that I’ve never voted Democratic for President, but I might have to vote for Hitlery or BO or The Breck Girl to keep that Bushite fascist out of the White House. Romney was for forcing the Boy Scouts to accept avowed homosexuals as scout leaders. Some ‘libertarian’!!!! Once the YouTube of Mitt ‘versus’ (?) Ted Kennedy (looked like they mainly agreed with each other) is blasted across Iowa and NH, Mitt’s future wlll be Rudy’s and McCain’s past, i.e., goin’ DOWN as the elevator operators used to say, eh, Eric? Looks like Derbyshire is better at picking hosses than NR. Go Ron!