“This is what I was thinking when I walked up to the kid who was wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the images of Thomas Jefferson and Ron Paul. I asked him if Congressman Paul would have supported President Jefferson when the latter pole-vaulted over the powers of his office, and over almost everything he’d ever said in his life regarding the authority of the federal government, in order to buy the Louisiana Territory so we could all one day have a whole lot of college football. He looked dimly at me as though I had taken to speaking in Finnish. And, in my mind’s eye, Clio, the Muse of History, gulps 12 Quaaludes and reaches for the tequila.”
Pierce has a new politics blog. Awesome!
“Rick Perry was in the Air Force. Herman Cain did ballistics analysis for the Navy. Jon Huntsman has worked government jobs for 20 years, and Mitt Romney’s father was governor of Michigan. Rick Scott proudly admits he grew up in public housing, and Paul Ryan got through high school and college on Social Security survivor’s benefits. And this is how they all came to become small-government conservatives who didn’t need a hand-out.”