Reason Writers Around Town: Matt Welch on Freedom Watch, Talking About Ron Paul Winning the CPAC Straw Poll

Reason Staff | 2.25.2010 7:46 AM

At Judge Andrew Napolitano's Fox News Internet show, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch talks about Ron Paul, Bill Kristol, the Tea Party movement, the two-party system, and who's zooming who. Whole thing around five minutes:

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capitol l 15 years ago

The Judge is great, but this 'republicans getting back to their roots' thing is getting stale.

What small government roots?

I have been alive through all of the last three republican presidents and I don't see it. Nixon and Ford also lack in small gov. credentials. Maybe Eisenower? Anyone here alive then and can vouch for him? Sure, everyone trots out Goldwater, but I have read his later interviews and his views are closer to Ron Paul than Mitt Romney.

Or do people mean that republicans need to pay more lip service to liberty as they have done in the recent past?
1. ed 15 years ago
  
  Lip service. But with a small "l".
2. robc 15 years ago
  
  Calvin Coolidge?
3. Tsu Dho Nihm 15 years ago
  
  What small government roots, indeed!
  
  I don't think the R's ever were a "small government" party. They've done a great job making people believe that they are, but their actions show them to be far different.
Cabeza de Vaca 15 years ago

Maybe Eisenower?

The guy who built the federal interstate highway system shouldn't be counted as a small government President IMHO.
1. capitol l 15 years ago
  
  Yeah, just looked him up. That along with the expansion of the welfare state, and his middle east policy pretty much end that line of thought. Is the triumvirate of Hoover, Coolidge, and Harding the "roots" everyone is gabbing on about.
  1. Cabeza de Vaca 15 years ago
    
    Harding was a pretty good one. Hoover was a horrible President. He started a lot of the new deal style programs that Roosevelt expanded.
2. Benchwarmer 15 years ago
  
  Being able to see America easily by car was a good selling point but I suspect that America's ability to move "men and materials" was at the bottom of it. Ike (and many others) had recent experience doing just that.
3. Isaac Bartram 15 years ago
  
  Also, IIANM Ike spent most of his life as a registered Democrat and could just as easily gotten the '52 Democratic nomination as the Republican.
  
  His first budget did cut Federal spending in real terms, though. That's something that hasn't happened in recent history.
small hands 15 years ago

Taft?
affenkopf 15 years ago

Russia Today? Now Welch is in Putin's and Koch's pocket!
1. Warren 15 years ago
  
  Seriously. What's next for the reason staff? Burbank High AV club?
2. Matt Welch 15 years ago
  
  Wrong thread.
  1. Matt Welch 15 years ago
    
    Oops, I see why.
    1. Matt Welch 15 years ago
      
      The other thread is now open for business.
Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago

I want to comment on the Russia Today thread, but once again Hit & Run has two blog titles that, when truncated, are identical, ruining one of the links. For a magazine called Reason...
1. Matt Welch 15 years ago
  
  Oh shit, I see what we did there. Will try to fix ASAP.
  
  Also -- "once again"? When has this happened previously?
  1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
    
    You can't expect me to back up my assertions. I don't actually recall the specifics, but I think it was around that embarrasing time you were asking for donations.
    1. Matt Welch 15 years ago
      
      Don't feel embarrassed for us, Epi.
      1. Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
        
        Epi??? Ouch. Hey I donated to the cause so you're talking about a stockholder here.
        
        Matt Welch 15 years ago
        
        Christ. I think I'll take the rest of the year off.
        
        Fist of Etiquette 15 years ago
        
        Ha! Delicious vindication.
        
        (Sorry about the "fool" part, though. You know I think you're aces.)
2. Matt Welch 15 years ago
  
  The other thread is now open for business.
Citizen Nothing 15 years ago

That does it! I'm canceling my subscription! And I'm not going to buy the 117 Reason hoodie-sweaters I was going to!
PM770 15 years ago

We demand Lobster Girl be added to a post today as penance!
1. Voros McCracken 15 years ago
  
  Here You Go
shecky 15 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urkJ2WCQ5R0

Oh fuck, why can't we just get Paul to fade away? How do we go about replacing his face on libertarianism with that of the likes of Johnson and Flake? The draw he holds over presumably sane small government proponents is mystifying.
1. Citizen Nothing 15 years ago
  
  Watch it, shecky. I got my finger on the "cancel subscription" button and I'm not afraid to use it, swear to Christ.
  Oh, and drink the vinegar, scum!
2. joe 15 years ago
  
  agreed, when will they shut up and become submissive cosmotarians to our God, the Corporation?
  
  america=bottom
  corporations=top
Warty 15 years ago

Matt, I'm pretty sure that you should switch to a leather vest. And possibly leather glasses.
1. Warty 15 years ago
  
  WTF the thread switched again. Boo-urns to the tech staff.

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