Juan Williams
The Hill
Aug 13, 2012
Last year in this column I wrote: “If you have not been paying attention, it is time to look around and realize that we are living in the political age of Rep. Ron Paul.”
The first section of the Wikipedia page entry for the Tea Party Movement even quotes a sentence from that column, where I argued the Tea Party dynamic that won the House majority for the GOP in 2010 “grew largely out of the ashes of (Paul’s) 2008 presidential campaign” by emphasizing “limited government and a return to constitutional principles.”
Now, the 76-year-old Texan is retiring at the end of this Congress after 12 terms in the House of Representatives.
During his latest run for the Republican presidential nomination, Paul tangled with Mitt Romney, particularly over civil liberties.
But unlike other candidates, he did not attack Romney harshly.
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