“Is this surge a vote for the congressman named Ron Paul? Impossible. It’s in fact the Republican Party protest vote. Since summer, this block of votes has jumped from one candidate to another, desperate for an anti-Obama champion whose anti-Washington intensity matches its own.”
–“The Ron Paul Vote,” Daniel Henninger, Wall Street Journal
“It seems fitting that the final surge should belong to Ron Paul, who speaks most directly to one of his party’s deepest emotions: hostility to government. At seventy-six, Paul has aged perfectly into his personality. He’s a white-haired, wide-eyed prophet—it’s easy to imagine him in white robes, instead of a business suit—who must rail against the outrages he has witnessed.”
— “Enemy of the State,” Nicholas Lemann, The New Yorker
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January 4, 2012 at 9:23 am
UPDATE:
“Ron Paul Is (Briefly) the Winner of the Iowa Caucus!” Ken Layne, Wonkette