Ron Paul’s Ascent Won’t Last, or Help His Cause: Ramesh Ponnuru
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Dec. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Representative Ron Paul, a TexasRepublican and a candidate for the presidential nomination,doesn’t mind long odds, and doesn’t mind standing alone.
In 2004, the House voted 414-1 for a resolution celebratingthe 40th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of1964. Paul not only voted no but gave a speech arguing that theact should never have been enacted. Employers who wish todiscriminate against blacks, in his view, should be free to doso. A federal government that claims the power to override theirdecisions, he said, could also impose racial quotas. “Relationsbetween the races have improved despite, not because of, the1964 Civil Rights Act.”