Glass
16th January 2012, 07:30 PM
Race hopeful Ron Paul's unorthodox views anticipate a new era.
HE RAILS against the ''American Empire'' that ''brought the September 11 attacks on us''. He condemns Obama for killing Osama and for failing to shut the Guantanamo detention camp. He is indifferent to attempts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He defends Julian Assange and lauds Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks, a ''true patriot''. And he is barred from addressing a Jewish forum because of his ''misguided and extreme views'' on Israel.
Who is this crazed left-wing radical? If you're not closely following the Republican presidential race, you might think he is Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore.
In fact, he's Ron Paul: the free-market crusader, cultural conservative and intellectual godfather of the Tea Party movement, from (of all places) Texas.
more drivel from this opinionator @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/eccentric-leftwing-radical-an-unlikely-republican-candidate-20120116-1q35n.html).
HE RAILS against the ''American Empire'' that ''brought the September 11 attacks on us''. He condemns Obama for killing Osama and for failing to shut the Guantanamo detention camp. He is indifferent to attempts to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons. He defends Julian Assange and lauds Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking US secrets to WikiLeaks, a ''true patriot''. And he is barred from addressing a Jewish forum because of his ''misguided and extreme views'' on Israel.
Who is this crazed left-wing radical? If you're not closely following the Republican presidential race, you might think he is Noam Chomsky or Michael Moore.
In fact, he's Ron Paul: the free-market crusader, cultural conservative and intellectual godfather of the Tea Party movement, from (of all places) Texas.
more drivel from this opinionator @ the Age (http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/politics/eccentric-leftwing-radical-an-unlikely-republican-candidate-20120116-1q35n.html).