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Ron Paul, new Republican

An American conservative who loves the Constitution

Christopher Caldwell

Wednesday, 12th December 2007

Christopher Caldwell on the impact of Ron Paul, the anti-war congressman running for the Republican nomination and finding unexpected support on the web

A Republican debate in Florida in late November marked this electoral season’s debut of Adolf Hitler, that reliable presence in American presidential campaigns. The Arizona senator John McCain, struggling to draw even with the garrulous ex-New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani and the Mormon technocrat (and former Massachusetts governor) Mitt Romney, decided to burnish his pro-war credentials. The problem was, there was almost nobody to burnish them against. Seven of the eight candidates on stage had vied for months to outdo one another in their lock-stock-and-barrel support for George W. Bush’s Iraq policy.

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Norm

January 14th, 2008 2:23am

Republicans and democrats are interchangeable. I have never voted in a primary before now. Guaranteed, I will vote this time, however if Dr. Paul does not win the nomination, I will never vote for the lesser of two evils again. It's Ron Paul or it's nothing period.

Bob Pylant

January 14th, 2008 2:54am

Boy, you sure nailed the head on our USA mentality.. i.e. we dont mind the war as long as we are loosing... thanks to the George Bush Lies and Cheney lies fostered off to our people here... i.e. get the duct tape out and tape up your windows and doors against chemical warheads and LOL... the next day no more duct tape is available to purchase... sorry folks, ingnorance is rampant here in good ole US OF A

Imagine the terror of the Chinese officials

David Tang

David Tang reflects on his visits to Beijing in the run-up to the Games, where Western expertise has been harnessed to the ruthless efficiency of China’s government machine

Nudge, nudge: meet the Cameroons’ new guru

James Forsyth

The economist Richard Thaler — a favourite of the Cameron and Obama camps — talks to James Forsyth about the power of ‘nudging’: small transformative acts of persuasion

The cross-party consensus on welfare reform echoes the Gingrich–Clinton revolution

Fraser Nelson

Fraser Nelson on the coming political week

The Falun Gong show that meek can be provocative

Lloyd Evans

Lloyd Evans joins the dissident movement in a ritual exercise near the Chinese Embassy. He is unsettled to find himself understanding why China’s rulers get so paranoid about them

Big Brother versus YouTube: let the Beijing Games commence

Mark Leonard

Mark Leonard, Britain’s pre-eminent analyst of modern China, says the Olympic genie is out of the bottle. The prospect of global scrutiny has actually increased repression as the authorities try to stamp out dissent. But digital technology is impossible to police

McCain is in for a terrible shock if he wins

Reihan Salam

Reihan Salam says that most Republicans have no idea how much the American social landscape has changed. They should learn from Obama’s Google-like appeal