Leonard Pitts, Jr. on Ron Paul: Foolish consistency or just foolishness?

[Scuba]

http://www.nationalmemo.com/content/foolish-consistency-or-just-foolishness


A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson.


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Can government be overlarge, overbearing, overwhelming, over restrictive, over intrusive? Of course. And where it is those things, it is the right -- and duty -- of the electorate to pare it back.

On the other hand, unless you enjoy salmonella in your food and lead in your paint, unless you think it's OK that your doctor has no medical degree and your lawyer no license, unless you're fine with breathing sooty air and drinking tainted water and unless you really think a black woman in Mississippi, locked out of public places by threat of violence and force of law, should have been required to wait on market forces to rescue her, you must regard Paul's moral imbecility with a certain appalled awe.

Heaven help us if the intellectual rigidity he symbolizes is really the only alternative to the intellectual malleability of so many of his colleagues

At its best, government vindicates and defends a people's noblest ideals. The Civil Rights Act was government at its best. Paul disputes this and styles himself a defender of freedom for so doing. Too bad he can't spend a day being black in Mississippi in 1964. He might emerge with a better understanding of that word.

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[rurallib]

1. I personally think Ron Paul is every bit the phony

that Romney is.