Ron Paul Convention makes The Economist
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Britain’s leading magazine of politics and economics, The Economist, has a nice write-up of the Ron Paul “Rally for the Republic” which I attended last week. The article is relatively favorable, and highlights Ron’s appeal to limited government conservatives.
His campaign for restoring limited government did not win him the Republican nomination for president. But it did earn him a legion of adoring fans who gathered for a huge counter-convention in Minneapolis, across the river from the official Republican convention in St Paul, in a 15,000-seat basketball arena.
The magazine points out that Ron’s brand of Republicanism might actually be popular in a time when the Republican Party has lost its way. It has become a party of big government, and Ron’s supporters are the true conservatives.
“I’m an old Republican,” he says: a small-government conservative, not often seen these days. The new Republicans, he seems confident, will come back to him. Although the national party treats him like a pariah, he says individual congressmen around the country are seeking his supporters to survive in what looks like a bad year for Republicans.
