Every once in a while, we get an interesting email from our PM readers. This one comes from F. Paul Wilson -- author and physician -- who had an opportunity to have some eggs and listen to presidential candidate Ron Paul do his thing. PM does not endorse Ron Paul -- or any candidate for that matter. The following is just an interesting insight. - ED
The Free State Project folks shipped me up to Nashua, NH, last weekend to speak at their annual Liberty Forum.

Friday night I was drinking with a couple of the guys when one of them said a friend was having Ron Paul over for a breakfast meeting the next morning and did I want to go. The closest I've ever been to a presidential candidate was my old Georgetown classmate Bill Clinton - we shared the same dorm floor for a year or two - and he'd been running only for class president in those days. Here was a chance to get up close and personal with a guy in the heat of the Big One.
The modest, two-story house sits on a snowy hill in Limeboro. After trudging up a steep set of not-so-well-shoveled steps, we're welcomed by the owner and offered coffee and homemade muffins and scones. Ron Paul arrives a few minutes later with his wife Carol, his granddaughter, and a couple of aides.
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PD toolbar!He's anything but physically imposing, and he lacks Bill's room-commanding presence. He looks tired but not fragged. His dark suit is wrinkled and his nose is running a little from the cold outside. As he stands near the center of the room, the dozen or so of us present begin asking him questions and he responds in a measured tone with minimal gesticulation. It doesn't take long to realize that all his opinions – whether on foreign policy or monetary policy or education topics - are linked, all part of a cohesive, philosophical whole that keeps harking back to the "blueprint," the Constitution.
And as the coffee klatch rolls on, I realize that this man hasn't a chance. He speaks to the mind rather than the heart. He promises sweeping reforms in almost every aspect of the government, and though that may resonate with the folks in this room, it's not enough. His opponents are promising, to varying degrees, a cradle-to-grave nanny state with a chicken in every pot. He's speaking to the adult in us, they're speaking to the child. Any doubt as to whose message will resonate farther and wider?
Looking at the New Hampshire primary totals, it appears the Live-Free-or-Die folks have chosen the latter.
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