Jack Hunter, a columnist I had never read before today has penned a great column on the incredible stench of hypocrisy that surrounds the dismissal of Ron Paul by America’s conservative leadership. Hunter makes the point that Ron Paul is the only voice on the right who is actually calling for a smaller, more humble government. The fact that Paul and his die-hard followers are almost despised by mainstream “conservatives” shows that their dedication to any real reduction in the scale and scope of government won’t last beyond the closing of the polls in November.
There are a few others out there looking at big-picture politics and trying to push forward policies that would represent real reform, not just the same politically-motivated, short-term thinking that has put our country in the position that it’s in today. A stand-out figure among them in Paul Ryan, of my home state of Wisconsin. He’s taken on the budget and health care in a serious and genuinely conservative way, by proposing the deep cuts to spending that are necessary for a sustainable fiscal future. This is more than most of the supposed leadership of the right can say.
Anyone who isn’t taking on the debt in a serious, policy-reforming way is surrendering our country to a future of governing by crisis, where politicians will finally be forced to act as they’ll be facing the eminent collapse of our economy and potentially our system of government.
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