LA Times
Aug 15, 2011
Could the guy from Texas possibly win the Republican Iowa caucuses come January? And kick off the actual GOP nomination race with a surprising big bang?
By ‘the guy from Texas’ we don’t mean Gov. Rick Perry, who announced his own candidacy before a gathering of conservative writers in South Carolina Saturday. He could well win it too.
But we’re talking now about the other Texan in the Republican race, the elderly 11-term congressman named Ron Paul.
Once upon a time the libertarian-like Paul was considered a fringe candidate.
He still is.
The trouble for mainstream Republicans is that Paul’s devoted disciples just keep on carving out apparent victories for the kindly old guy, whose son Rand is now a U.S. senator from Kentucky. The senior Paul is an Air Force vet and retired ob-gyn. He’s now five years older than John McCain was when everyone said John McCain was too old to move into the White House.
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