Ron Paul: Direct Descendent of the Founders

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http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2120

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>“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.</div>

 

[AEM]

The article fails to clarify which 'Founders' Paul should be aligned with - and seems to point to the false proposition that there was ANY unanimity of purpose, even among the various blocs that existed at the time.

 

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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (AEM @ Feb 16 2008, 03:32 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>The article fails to clarify which 'Founders' Paul should be aligned with - and seems to point to the false proposition that there was ANY unanimity of purpose, even among the various blocs that existed at the time.</div>

Very well stated.

 

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I agree they could have pointed out which Founding Father most resembles.

Jefferson IMO is out. Hint: Barbary Pirates.

Thomas Paine or Frankilin seem most likely to me.

 

[AEM]

For some reason, I was thinking George Mason, though I can't quite place why.