The Brush-off
Kevin D. Williamson’s piece on presidential aspirant Ron Paul (“Ron Paul’s Last Crusade,” September 19), coupled with Jack Hunter’s subsequent retort (October 3), brought to mind my own encounter with the Texas congressman.
Sharing a plane headed out of Manchester, N.H., with Candidate Paul (it was the morning following one of 2008’s early GOP-primary debates), I approached him to a) thank him for his defense of unborn human life; and b) encourage him to rethink his opposition to our military exertions in Iraq. Interrupting, the libertarian standard bearer brusquely informed me, “You can’t be pro-life and support this [Iraq] War!”
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