This story has come out of the blue: Bob Conley, a South Carolina Democrat who voted for Ron Paul in the state’s Republican primary — he quit the GOP over Iraq, immigration, and trade — won the Democratic Senate nomination. (Although his margin was so slim that it’s gone to a recount.) The first thing [...]
Amit K. Singh, the foreign-policy realist and limited-government conservative I’d been covering for TAC, lost his primary race against one-time “compassionate conservative” Mark Ellmore for the Republican congressional nomination in Virginia’s 8th district yesterday. Dave Weigel, Richard Spencer, and I attended the Singh victory party, which unfortunately wasn’t a victory — technically, anyway. Singh [...]
The lefty magazine continues to give the Ron Paul movement better coverage than the neocon press, which can only splutter in outrage at the thought of an antiwar, pro-market Republican. The Nation is none too good on market economics itself, and puts in a few nasty digs in its coverage of the rising class of [...]
My article on the Ron Paul campaign and the independent organizations and efforts springing up in its wake — including Young Americans for Liberty, Jonathan Bydlak’s Discover Scholars project, and a cadre of Ron Paul Republican candidates — is now on-line here.
I’m happy to report that one development since I wrote the piece is that [...]
Clueless GOP consultants Tony Fabrizio and Dave Carney tell Politico (referring to Ron Paul’s 16 percent showing in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary):
“A large portion of those Ron Paul supporters are anti-Bush, anti-war Republicans,” he said. “They’ll wind up back with McCain because, while they may disagree on the war or be mad at Bush, the prospect [...]
In a friendly game of softball, that is: the Ron Paul campaign team is facing off against the Koch team in the D.C. Think Tank Softball League. Both teams are in the “Free Soil” division.
What’s a Kochtopus, you ask? David Gordon answers.
Patrick Ruffini is alarmed to see that Ron Paul Republicans are the only conservatives dedicated enough to turn out at state county conventions – and as a result, Paul is picking up state-level and national delegates. It’s going to be a very interesting Republican Convention in (appropriately enough) St. Paul this year. Read Ruffini’s article [...]
The 4/21 issue of The American Conservative, which should be showing up in bookstores and subscribers’ mailboxes right about now, contains my article “The Ron Paul Evolution,” on the future of the Ron Paul movement — already there are candidates, a youth organization, and nonprofit ventures rising out of the Paul phenomenon, and there’s much [...]
Not only is the official campaign’s Daily Dose still going strong, in the able hands of Matt Hawes, but now my friend and former Ron Paul 2008 colleague Patrick Semmens has set up a group blog for past and present campaign staff. RonPaulBlog.com is the URL; so far Patrick and former finance director Jonathan Bydlak [...]
Contrary to my stated intention, @TAC actually has cut into Tory Anarchist blogging, at least a little bit. But then, this blog is more of a place for stray thoughts, so I don’t feel too shabby if I let it go for a few days. I don’t plan to let it go as long [...]