Rightometer: Ron Paul and his Spamming Supporters

Ron Paul and his Tinfoil Hat
Townhall.com's Dean Barnett is tired of the angry emails from Ron Paul supporters. Barnett opines, "I also decided that doing a serious post on Ron Paul would be tantamount to answering a question that no one was asking. Other than his 83 followers across the nation who seem to have nothing better to do than send angry missives when someone has the audacity to question their hero, the rest of the country is completely indifferent to the daffy Congressman."Right Angle's Nathanael Blake links to Russell Kirk's classic essay, "Chirping Sectaries" and adds, ", Ron Paul is an ideologue who refuses to deal with the realities of the world as it is. His extreme non-interventionism didn't even work at the beginning of the American Republic, and is impossible now. He is lacking in prudence, the hallmark of the conservative statesman."

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