"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
Postmortem on the Marketing of Ron Paul (Part 2)
Submitted by Jeremy H. on Wed, 2008-06-18 16:00
"Ron Paul's campaign was borne aloft in a powerful back-draft of statist debacles'the twin wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and a totalitarian crackdown at home. The 72-year-old congressman from Texas was like the little boy in 'The Emperor's New Clothes'..., pointing out the obvious." Column by Lawrence Ludlow.
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