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It is insidious when Rachel Maddow suggests that Rand Paul is a racist. It is insidious when Paul Krugman, The New York Times and the Daily Kos imply that Sarah Palin is a domestic terrorist. But The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank’s suggestion that Ron Paul is a closet Confederate is just stupid. The only tools left in their toolbox are mnemonic slander, irony and demagoguery; thus the liberals’ call to late-night stand-up comics to run for office. It is prelude to a nervous breakdown.

Ron Paul might have called the brilliant James Grant of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer to talk about Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek (or Mick Jagger, for that matter, who is also a fan) and the legendary commodities investor and guru Jim Rogers to talk about the Fed. It would have been entertaining and informative. But Paul is ornery. It is his job.

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