Back in high school I considered myself a libertarian, and had I been old enough to vote in the 1988 election (I was two years too young), I'm fairly sure I would have cast my vote for the libertarian party's presidential candidate. Their candidate that year? Ron Paul.
So despite my current leftward leanings, I have to say that there are definitely still parts of his ideology that resonate with me. And watching the reaction Paul receives from today's conservatives, I can't help but wonder... who has changed more, conservatives or me?
UPDATE: Paul isn't the only old school conservative who is upset. Richard A. Viguerie, one of a small handful of men who built the modern conservative movement's infrastructure, has just gone public with an amazing pledge:
"If the Republican Party nominates Rudy Giuliani as its candidate for either president or vice president, I will personally work to defeat the GOP ticket in 2008," says Richard A. Viguerie, author of Conservatives Betrayed: How George W. Bush and Other Big Government Republicans Hijacked the Conservative Cause."Rudy Giuliani is wrong on all of the social issues, is wrong on the Second Amendment, and is pretty much a blank slate on all other issues of importance to conservatives," Viguerie adds. "If the Republican Party nominates him, it is saying to the American people that it has lost all purpose except the raw political desire to hold power. It will be time to put
the GOP out of its misery."
This should be fun to watch.
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