“[Ron] Paul’s vision is as close to The Good Life as we could hope to come in the current ideological climate. Only tinny ideologues encased in worthless ideological armor – worthless because it exists in the arid arena of their minds, not on earth – would turn their noses up at the prospect of Paul.”

—  Ilana Mercer

"High Priests of Pomposity Pan Ron Paul," http://www.wnd.com/2008/01/45602 WorldNetDaily.com, January 18, 2008.
2000s, 2008

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