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Entry: The Revolution and the Republican Party Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_future_of_the_revolution#18152 Post contents: "The challenge that awaits the thousands of activists who have been inspired by Dr. Paul isn’t to run and register under a new third party as the number of dedicated constitutionalists in Congress is reduced to zero. It is expanding the ranks of Ron Paul Republicans—and small-government supporters of all stripes—in a hostile political climate. That takes more than one man. It requires a real movement." This prescription is absolutely the most fanciful of the three proposed and the least, if at all, principled. It was the anti-war impulse and to a lesser extent the anti-interventionism that propelled Paul, not the conservative economics, most people have little attraction to that. And, sadly, it's this very anti-war impulse that will render the "movement", or "revolution", or what ever other misnomer might be assign to it, impotent as Obama will likely pre-empt most of its force in the coming months. Paul, a Libertarian, has had the good fortune to be obscure enough to escape the attentions of the Republican Party hierarchy, having used as he has their banner in such a way as to advance both his ideas and his personal political fortune for many years. In point of fact, Paul has been, at best, the worst sort of poseur. Now nascently Nazi with its ReichsChurch base and its Thiessen-like corporate financiers cheering on its neo-con Himmlers, the Republican Party can never be a home to people of good will. The utter naivete informing the notion that paleo-conservatives and Libertarians can at some time in the future take commanding direction of the Republican Party leaves one just reeling. Did von Papen turn Hitler into the employee he said that he would? No, you can forget a future for an imagined Ron Paul Republican project unless, perhaps, you'd want to enroll its adolescents into a kind of Kristol Jugen. By failing to opt for an independent candidacy, Ron Paul has deep sixed any near term hope for right side peace and anti-interventionism. I only hope we've seen the last of him. John Lowell Sent at: 2008 07 04