Bit: I’m with Fred

It really has been mortifying to watch The National Review going supine for nothing but the value of winning the next election. That they would endorse Mitt Romney is just pathetic, and a glaring sign of the times. Kathryn Jean

Rich Lowry…. who I have some stout dispute on in terms of the Fair Tax issue (It’d help if Rich actually did some research on the matter) gets it pretty much spot on here, as regards the rise of social

Bit wondered if the strange “hostage” situation in Rochester, New Hampshire the work of some demented Ron Paul supported.   Err,  I repeated by myself.   Paul supporter.

Acoording the account given by the New York Times, I doubt it:

Mr.

So, the big story of the day ( Memeorandum is simply choked with it… and Michelle has been on it all day) is that one of Ron Paul’s supporters showed up at Hillary Clinton’s Campaign office in Rochester NH.  Well,

Bit and I had a disagreement of the CNN debate debacle.  Bit argued that CNN’s screening process was faulty.  I argued that the only thing a whore screen is the money.

Gaius, Blue Crab Boulevard, shows that CNN’s plants

Over at The Glittering Eye, Dave Schuler extends the argument he’s made in the commentstongue-in-cheek post on the fact that the media continues to ignore the ethnic-religious component of the rioting in France.He argues that the problem goes

Robert Bindinotto:

The Muslim world is not fooled by our talk about spreading democracy and values. The evidence is too overwhelming that we do not hesitate to support dictators and install puppet governments when it serves our interests. When democratic

In the past few months, Ron Paul has dramatically raised the profile of libertarianism inside the Republican Party. My small-l libertarian friends seem more comfortable describing themselves as such, even though they’ll go out of their way to disassociate themselves

Little Green Footballs notes:

9/11 Troofers keep popping up at Daily Kos, despite the official Kos disapproval: Screw Loose Change: Daily Kos Allows Crackpot Diary.

The bottom line is, the regardless of the show the left makes of disapproving

The question is, repeatedly of late when Ron Paul was going to denounce the tinfoil crowd led by Master Troofer, Alex Jones.  The answer, apparently is “not very soon”.

Which is approximately the same time he’ll have my support.

Dale Franks, this morning notes that while Ron Paul has come out with a statement about racism. And Dale, analytical type that he is, parses the statement out and finds it wanting:

Mr. Paul seems to be making the old

Jonah Goldberg in today’s LA TIMES:

As the hopeless but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, media conservatives are beginning to attack Paul in earnest

You’re usually more on

I’m starting to see an awful lot in the way of back channel chatter about Sybil Edmonds again.  In the last several weeks I’ve had at least three different people writing me, saying that I had to be delighted to

From Mona Charen, who I quote all too infrequently around here:

Memo to: Ron Paul supporters

Subject: Your e-mails

Okay, enough is enough. Like every other journalist in America, and who knows, maybe the world or even the universe,

There’s a multilevel discussion going on over at Q&O, on Ron Paul and his Nazi contributors. Paul hasn’t disavowed these contributors, nor has he returned the money.

I’ll use Jon’s lede for the links:

I understand the point McQ has