Some guy with Ron Paul
Former Rep. Ron Paul, he that spawned Paul the Younger, may be out of Congress now but he's still going to be making his voice heard. And not just his voice; for his think tank "The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity," he's gathered together
a real top-notch collection of peace and prosperity makers:
As Jamie Kirchick reports in The Daily Beast, his group’s advisory board includes incendiary columnist Lew Rockwell, who has been identified in news reports as the most likely author of a series of racist, homophobic and conspiracy-laden newsletters Paul published in the ’80s and ’90s.
Other board members profiled by Kirchick include John Laughland, who made defending Slobodan Milosevic from ethnic cleansing charges a personal cause, and economics professor Walter Block, who argued on Rockwell’s website that the country would be better off if the Confederate states had successfully cut ties with the “monster Lincoln.”
Wow. So it's going to be like an Alex Jones gig, but with more money and even crazier followers. Yeah, that sounds about right.
We should stop and remember here that this guy, Ron Paul, just came off a presidential primary campaign in which he was often seen as one of the more reasonable voices onstage. I don't mean that in a good way; I mean that the Republican Party is so replete with people who struggle to put two coherent, non-conflicting thoughts together that Ron Paul, legendary crackpot, can show up in that crowd and actually come off as no more insane than the rest of them.
Ah well, all that's over now. Now Paul gets to go back and wallow in his Batshit Crazy roots, and Rand Paul gets to pretend to be a bold libertarian who is also a loyal Republican and who, with the purchase of a separate attachment, can also julienne fries, and the Republican Party can go back to deciding who to bomb and how much to bomb them without having pesky Paul the Elder always piping up on how maybe we should be bombing anyone after all—only to ruin the whole principled moment by instead suggesting we use that money to mint sweet, shiny silver dimes that will ward off werewolves, deficits and black people.
Same as it ever was.