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Comments?

[clamper1797]

Ron Paul is an asshat ...

[Revelation 911]

should move on and try to do some good working within the GOP

the party that used to stand for conservatism and small govt, and has consistently deserted the conservative base ?....no thanks, no money, no support, and while youre at it - kiss my backside

[Apercu]

Ron Paul....Don Quixote on LSD.

[Dog Gone]

He’s my congressman and I not only voted against him in the primary, but gave money to his primary opponent.

Unfortunately, he’s unopposed in November, so I’m stuck with him.

[PGalt]

Good article by Dave Nalle. Thanks for posting.

[mnehring]

You know there was a time when true patriots like the JBS and Ron Paul were looked highly on here. They are the only true defenders of the Constitution and everyone else are neoCons. They were the only ones brave enough to stand up to Reagan and say ‘he made Jimmy Carter look conservative’.

OK, back to reality, I need a shower after that.

[Drango]

[Dan Middleton]

In recent weeks the thundering Ron Paul freight train has kind of derailed.

It was more like a Lionel train.

[JHBowden]

The Paulstapo were just Democrat trolls anyway.

[Captain Kirk]

More sour grapes from the anti-Paul brigade. The fact that he will be in Congress for at least that next three years really gets under their skin.

I suspect that that that author of this article was one of those who triumphantly declared that Chris Peden would beat him in the primary. In the end, of course, the good voters of Paul's district reelected him by a thundering 70 percent!

[randomhero97]

Interesting take by the author and comments in this thread. I assume everyone is satisfied with the status quo and the direction the Republic is heading.

[a_different_conservative]

Paul was never a serious threat to the party and hasn’t even been an asterisk for months now. How many celebratory post-mortems will you folks have?

Why waste energy on this when you can work for your candidate McCain? If he wins, you will get what it appears you all want: a defense hawk who will work with Kennedy to further undermine thousands of miles of border and a defender of the Constitution who will work with Fiengold to further restrict the first amendment.

Not that I’m bitter or anything.

[alarm rider]

Ron Paul and Howard Dean? Separated at birth. All you have to do is look at the eyes.....

[death2tyrants]

Ron Paul is still a viable candidate for the GOP. He won all of the online polls!

/s

[shrinkermd]

I am not a Ron Paul supporter; however, this article falsely claims the JBS is both a racist and fascist organization. This is definitely not true.

When I was a member 40+ years ago, there not only was no racism but one of our small group was black.

Like many political organizations, the JBS failed to adjust to the end of the Soviet Union.

Once there was not a Soviet threat, all the penetration of our government by communist sympathizers became moot.

I personally salute the JBS for a job well done. They need not apologize to anyone for their efforts—least of all the false accusations of being racist, fascist or mentally disordered.

[the invisib1e hand]

For those not already familiar with the John Birch Society, it is a secretive and rather paranoid extreme-right organization which was originally founded in the era of Joe McCarthy's witch hunts to help root out the communist infiltrators who infested American society

Generally, the term "witch hunt" has been reserved for cases where the targets of the movement either didn't exist or did nothing wrong. If there were "communist infiltrators who infested American society" (as all the evidence overwhelmingly indicates and the article itself apparently concedes) then it wasn't a "witch hunt."

The journalistic equivalent of the kid who grunts at you when you thank him for your cheeseburger at McDonalds.

[Smokin' Joe]

...extreme-right organization which was originally founded in the era of Joe McCarthy's witch hunts to help root out the communist infiltrators who infested American society.

McCarthy was right.

[SecAmndmt]

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