Ron Paul: Direct descendent of the founders
Independent Institute
by Ivan Eland
02/15/08
As the nation’s major media outlets crown John McCain (George W. Bush on steroids) as the Republican nominee for president, their nearly criminal neglect of Ron Paul’s candidacy in the 2008 presidential campaign is nearly complete. ‘Big media’ have never deemed Paul a ‘major candidate,’ as their paltry coverage of him shows. In fact, the media often brand the ardent groundswell of popular support for Ron Paul as an odd curiosity. The problem is that if Ron Paul is a kook — as they imply — then so are the nation’s founders. His policy prescriptions of more limited government at home and military restraint abroad put him far closer to the spectrum of opinion at the founding than any other candidate in the 2008 race. The media barons would never dream of implying that founders were loony tunes. But the country’s current massive government, with its intrusive activism at home and abroad, is so far removed from the founding vision that the modern-day manifestation of such values appears downright weird to today’s press corps...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2120
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nation+founders
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
by Ivan Eland
02/15/08
As the nation’s major media outlets crown John McCain (George W. Bush on steroids) as the Republican nominee for president, their nearly criminal neglect of Ron Paul’s candidacy in the 2008 presidential campaign is nearly complete. ‘Big media’ have never deemed Paul a ‘major candidate,’ as their paltry coverage of him shows. In fact, the media often brand the ardent groundswell of popular support for Ron Paul as an odd curiosity. The problem is that if Ron Paul is a kook — as they imply — then so are the nation’s founders. His policy prescriptions of more limited government at home and military restraint abroad put him far closer to the spectrum of opinion at the founding than any other candidate in the 2008 race. The media barons would never dream of implying that founders were loony tunes. But the country’s current massive government, with its intrusive activism at home and abroad, is so far removed from the founding vision that the modern-day manifestation of such values appears downright weird to today’s press corps...
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2120
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ron+Paul
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Big+media
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=nation+founders
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ivan+Eland
rudkla - 18. Feb, 13:41
