Nick Gillespie Talks Ron Paul, Libertarians, & Iowa Politics on C-SPAN

On Tuesday, December 27, 2011 I appeared on C-SPAN's Washington Journal to discuss Ron Paul, libertarianism, and the politics of the coming Iowa Caucus and beyond.

It's a wide-ranging conversation that discussing why Paul's message is popular with so many folks; why Newt Gingrich, like a fish after three days, is beginning to stink, and more. About 45 minutes.

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Comments

[Name Nomad]

Whenever I watch these C-SPAN call-in shows, it seems like the caller is always at least slightly… umm… unbalanced. Is this always true or have I just watched weird episodes?

[Spencer]

Wouldn’t you have to be unbalanced to watch CSpan- and then STILL decide to call in and wait to be put on the air?

[Old Soldier]

I was thinking the same thing – do they try to get the retards through?

[Spencer]

If it ‘tards it leads.

[Chloe]

Kind of wish that woman answered Nick’s question about who controls business. Also, I would totally have hung up the phone on that caller who was complaining that he wouldn’t be able to make his point because they were going to hang up on him.

[Citizen Nothing]

I’m not going to bother to watch. Just…Cancel my subscription!!!

[J.B. Say what?]

John at 12:22? Sounds like an albino indian.

Woo-woo not red dot.

[Max]

“As someone who has written and commented widely and generally sympathetically about Ron Paul, I’ve got to say that The New Republic article detailing tons of racist and homophobic comments from Paul newsletters is really stunning. As former reason intern Dan Koffler documents here, there is no shortage of truly odious material that is simply jaw-dropping.
I don’t think that Ron Paul wrote this stuff but that really doesn’t matter–the newsletters carried his name after all–and his non-response to Dave Weigel below is unsatisfying on about a thousand different levels. It is hugely disappointing that he produced a cache of such garbage.”– Nick Gillespie

“If Paul didn’t write those articles, who did? If he didn’t know what had appeared in his newsletter, when did he find out and how did he deal with it? If the candidate is vague on these points, it will only fuel suspicions that he held those beliefs after all (or that he was willing to stay silent despite his disagreements because the newsletters brought in some cash).”–Jesse Walker

[romulus augustus]

Did those kind of articles suddenly end, indicating RP took some sort of non-public action to reprimand the doer and end the nonsense, or did they continue for years and years until the publication ended?

[Max]

Good fucking point.

[Happy GoLucky]

There is a dude that clearly knows what tiem it is. WOw.

http://www.privacy-works.tk

[rho]

I’d write in “The Jacket” for 2012, but I don’t think that’s a viable candidate.