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Entry: The Revolution and the Right Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_revolution_and_the_right#17321 Post contents: "On the other side of the ledger, the Congressman struck me as a less than effective TV debater, and I found myself wondering why he alternated between ferocity and appearing to be removed from the ongoing discussion. When asked about his views on foreign policy, he would typically snarl at the moderator and then mutter something about this “unconstitutional war.” But then when urged to pose his own questions to the other candidates, he would ask something so esoteric that I had no idea what he was talking about. (In one case the target of his question, John McCain, looked as puzzled by his query as I was.) Paul is highly educated and never at a loss for words in conversation, but debating on TV is clearly not his forte." At times, Paul seemed so confined by ideology that he appeared to be in a world of his own, his complaints always anchored in a rationale at no small distance from the moral. Something quite like this confinement can be found in the biblical positivism of Evangelicals who treat Holy Scripture as context rather than the reality of Jesus Christ, God The Son, to whom scripture points. The whole phenomenon carries with it an air of unreality, a sense that one has bought into an abstraction from which extrication is utterly impossible. That notwithstanding, the hope of an independent Paul candidacy that easily might direct a sufficient number of "peace" or disaffected Republicans away from McCain now appears to be a forlorn hope, one killed by Paul himself just a week ago. And while likely I would have voted for Paul, comfortable with his stand on abortion if not with his argument and, unlike you, accepting of his analysis of American foreign policy, there's a certain relief in the fact that, with his withdrawal, there can be no longer the possibility of an identification with a rationalism in which the moral dimension is submerged. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 05 16