Ett inlägg på Los Angeles Times blogg beskriver Ron Pauls come-back som följande:
"A former losing Libertarian presidential candidate (aren't they all?) and a retired ob-gyn who delivered 4,000 babies, Paul is even older than the old guy the Republicans eventually chose as their standard-bearer against the $750-million campaign of the hopey-changey guy from Illinois."
Fakta som indikerar att Ron Paul borde ha sett sina bästa dagar för längesedan - men så tycks inte vara fallet:
"[Ron Paul] ran his.... hopelessly outgunned presidential campaign as if it was a business, not even spending more money than he had in hand. C'mon now, how laughable is that in this day and age in modern America that someone who wants to run the federal government should live within his own campaign means? Just like normal people who live on a real budget with no ability to vote themselves a pay raise and a higher debt ceiling when no one is watching C-SPAN!
When the ultimate Democratic winner, in league with the extraordinary gentleman Harry Reid and the tough-talking San Francisco grandma who's House speaker, has decided to spend a gazillion more dollars than any non-federal calculator has digits to display.
These people, for Nancy's sake, are already spending the income taxes of the unborn grandchildren of those 4,000 babies that Paul delivered."
Och detta har fått Ron Pauls strikta fiscal conservatism att framstå mycket tilltalande:
"For three decades, Texas congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul's extreme brand of libertarian economics consigned him to the far fringes even among conservatives. Not a few times, his views put him on the losing end of 434-1 votes on Capitol Hill.
No longer. With the economy still struggling and political divisions deepening, Paul's ideas not only are gaining a wider audience but also are helping to shape a potentially historic battle over economic policy -- a struggle that will affect everything including jobs, growth and the nation's place in the global economy."
William Niskanen från the Cato Institute, som the Council of Economic Advisors under president Reagan, kommenterade:
"I think we're going to be in for more revival of fiscal responsibility. To this extent, Ron Paul gains voice"
Alla Ron Pauls libertarianska idéer kommer förmodligen inte att få genomslag. Däremot kommer- och har han redan format riktningen på politiken, mot en mer konservativ ekonomisk filosofi som för närvarande ligger väldigt rätt i tiden för att få också politiskt inflytande:
"Some of Paul's most extreme views are still beyond the pale for most economists. Despite the eroding value of the dollar, no one expects the U.S. to return to the gold standard, as Paul advocates; most economists think that could wreck the economy.
In their less drastic forms, however, Paul's ideas are being welcomed by conservatives and viewed with foreboding by liberals. For conservatives, runaway inflation constitutes the biggest potential threat to the nation's future. Liberals worry that cutting back stimulus efforts too soon could slow or even halt the current recovery.
The debate over that question -- what the basic thrust of U.S. economic policy should be -- is likely to dominate the coming elections and Washington policymaking.
And so far, Paul and his fellow conservatives are on the offensive."
Att den ekonomiska konservatismen från Reagan-revolutionen fått ett uppsving står helt klart - och visas inte minst bland te-party-rörelsen. Förmodligen kommer också Republikanernas presidentkandidat 2012 (vem det än blir) att utgå från samma grund - något som i sådana fall kommer att skilja denne från de två efter Reagan- tidigare republikanska presidenterna George Herbert Walker Bush (som trots allt 1980 kallade Reaganomics för "voodoo-economics" och som president höjde skatterna för att bekosta Gulfkriget) - och George W. Bush, som aldrig heller (fast utifrån lite andra utgångspunkter än sin far) helt skrev under på Reagans ekonomiska konservatism. Att detta skett, beror dock ofrånkomligen till stor del inte på någon Republikansk president - utan på den sittande Demokratiske presidenten.
Källa: Los Angeles Times
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