[Ciaphas Cain]

Ron Paul is the kind of man I can easily envision being at the Continental Congress, or the Constitutional Convention.

Very few people get that kind of praise from me.

[Starboard]

“Very few people get that kind of praise from me.”

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Where are the statesmen? We have lots of politicians, firebrands, bureaucrats and apparatchiks but almost no principled leaders with foresight and courage.

The charlatans and grifters, however, are legion. Maybe people should start voting on the basis of character, convictions and results instead of rhetoric and lies.