John Derbyshire endorses
And it puts ours absolutely to shame:
Are those supporters crazy, as some colleagues tell me?
Perhaps they are, to be shouting for liberty in 2007, after decades of swelling federal power and arrogance, of proliferating taxes, rules, and interests, of gushing transfers of wealth to politically connected elites from working- and middle-class grunts, of the college and teacher-union scams, of the metastasizing tort-law rackets, of ever more numerous yet ever more clueless intelligence agencies, of open borders and visas for people who hate us, of widening cracks in our sense of nationhood (“Press one for English …”), of speech codes and race lobbies and judicial impositions.
If those people are crazy, though, I want to be crazy with them. I’m for liberty, too. That’s why I’m for Ron Paul.
Check out, also, Derbyshire’s correspondence with a construction worker on the subject of Ron Paul. Stirring stuff.
If I could choose any two NRO staffers to back my candidate, Derbyshire and Freddoso might well be the two. Beautiful writers, formidable thinkers, and absolutely resolute in their views regardless of consequences. Welcome aboard, gentlemen.
Man, that does put us to shame. That’s one of the best pieces of political writing I’ve seen in some time.
Comment by Brad — 12/20/2007 @ 5:20 pm
I think his use of ‘metastasizing’ marks him out as crypto-republican intelligencia.
Not to be trusted.
Comment by Mark — 12/20/2007 @ 5:26 pm
Man, I sure did miss crotchety old cranky conservatives.
Where the hell have they been this decade?
Comment by Brad — 12/20/2007 @ 5:31 pm
Derbyshire and Will have always been there; it’s just that people in power haven’t been listening to them. Which just amps up the crotchety to eleven.
Comment by Rojas — 12/20/2007 @ 5:46 pm
I haven’t gone anywhere either, you cheeky bastards.
Comment by Adam — 12/20/2007 @ 6:02 pm
I couldn’t agree more. Have always loved the Derb, Sully, and now Freddoso. This is some kind of dream team we’ve got going here.
Comment by David M — 12/20/2007 @ 9:08 pm
I’ve met Derb, so nerr.
Comment by Adam — 12/20/2007 @ 11:26 pm
I could have done without the “Oh noes some people don’t speak English!” nativism, but overall a wonderfully written and well crafted endorsement. Would have been nice to include some small nod to civil liberties, but I guess thats just not the Derbs thing today.
Comment by Jack — 12/21/2007 @ 10:53 am
I agree with Derb on most things apart from immigration, which tends to be related to the language thing (which Ron Paul isn’t going to fix, anyhow).
Comment by Adam — 12/21/2007 @ 11:14 am