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The cartoonist apparently doesn't know that the most anti-war congress-critter there is - republican Ron Paul - is running for president.

Hogeye wrote:The cartoonist apparently doesn't know that the most anti-war congress-critter there is - republican Ron Paul - is running for president.

DOUG
My interpretation of the cartoon is not that any GOP candidate must support the war, but that no matter who the candidate is, he or she will be laboring under the terrible legacy that the GOP, via supporting Bush, is not as good a party choice as the Demos. Polls suggest that this is so, given reluctance on the part of many to identify themselves as Republicans these days.

DAR
Portraying Ron Paul as any kind of normative republican, without telling the rest of the story, is a bit misleading considering the republican party did everything they could to keep him from getting elected. At best, like most libertarians, he is tolerated. From his wiki blurb:

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"In 1996, Paul was again elected to the House as a Republican. Mainstream Republican Party figures backed the incumbent, Greg Laughlin, a conservative Democrat representative who had switched parties in the wake of the Republican takeover of Congress. Laughlin attempted to portray Paul's views as extreme and eccentric, but Paul won the primary and went on to win the general election.

Leaders of the Texas Republican Party made similar efforts to defeat him in 1998, but he again won the primary and the election. The Republican congressional leadership then agreed to a compromise: Paul votes with the Republicans on procedural matters and remains nominally Republican in exchange for the committee assignments normally due according to his seniority."
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I subscribed to his newsletter for a long time but dropped it when the muddled libertarian nonsense became too annoying. An attempt by him to capture the white house, or even make a showing, has about as much chance of success as... well, I can't think of any original analogies with possible outcomes that low.

Ron Paul is definitely not a typical Republican. He's a libertarian really, and was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1988. (Some in the LP want him to run again in 2008.) He freely admits that he's only a Republican so he can get elected. He's the only congresscritter that I think may not be a total scumbag.

Cartoonist smarter than the White House. This cartoon originally appeared October 30 2002:

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