Forbes On Paul
From Forbes.com:
Editor's Note: We offered all the presidential candidates an opportunity to answer our questionnaire and provide us with a short essay on their campaign platform. Ron Paul was one of the candidates who responded to our request. Except for minor copy corrections, the following is his unedited essay in its entirety ...
Does anyone else find that Forbes chart on Paul to be funny?
Editor's Note: We offered all the presidential candidates an opportunity to answer our questionnaire and provide us with a short essay on their campaign platform. Ron Paul was one of the candidates who responded to our request. Except for minor copy corrections, the following is his unedited essay in its entirety ...
Does anyone else find that Forbes chart on Paul to be funny?
posted by Strother | 6:53 AM
1 Comments:
[raising hand] I do! I do!
The whole thing is completely without context. It would be nice if Forbes would tell us what they consider to be "conservative" and "liberal" outlooks on these issues. For instance, Ron Paul's foreign policy positions are almost identical to those held by Barry Goldwater, so how does that equate to liberal? Paul's foreign policy views were in alignment with the GOP until G.W. Bush came along, and we all know Bush is no "conservative."
Ron Paul's views are very easy to predict: Market solutions and federalism. How those equate to conservative and liberal positions, I guess only Forbes knows for sure.
And I thought distilling everything down to a number at the bottom of the chart was absolutely hilarious.
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