Colonel Austin Bay comments on the Rudy – Ron Paul spat,

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Colonel Bay on Ron Paul
Posted by: Dean Barnett at 9:53 AM

Colonel Austin Bay comments on the Rudy – Ron Paul spat,

“Rudy G’s response to Ron Paul was a knock-out. Ron Paul is definitely fringe. No doubt Paul’s an intelligent person. By reputation he does a good job with constituent service in his district — he does get re-elected. However, his statements about the War on Terror and Iraq are a Sheehan-Galloway pastiche.”

That’s some great stuff. One small quibble, though:
I would posit that the Colonel is bending over backwards to be kind to Paul in calling him intelligent. While Paul probably does have a high level of cognitive ability, I don’t consider a guy who looks around the world and concludes that our foreign policy of 1790 makes perfect sense for us today to be particularly intelligent. A rigid orthodoxy that has Robert Taft as its patron saint and has made no allowances for changes on the ground over the past couple of centuries is hardly a sign of an electric intellect.

Remember Stephen Colbert’s one funny joke from the White House Correspondents dinner last year? “I like President Bush because he’s consistent,” began Colbert. “He believes on Wednesday what he believed on Monday. Regardless of what happened Tuesday.”
I don’t think that crack captures Bush, but it certainly nabs Ron Paul. Ron Paul is exactly that.

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