If you have been following this election cycle, you know that the MSM has no idea of what to make of Anti-War Libertarian Republican congressman Ron Paul. They alternate ignoring and/or mocking him, despite being the only intellectually consistent person in the race.

Mother Jones attempts a taxonomy of libertarian thought in order to figure out where Ron Paul fits into the political firmament in The Venn of Ron Paul and Other Mysteries of Libertarianism Explained.


http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2012/01/the-venn-of-paul/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheBigPicture+%28The+Big+Picture%29&utm_content=Yahoo%21+Mail

But as Abramovitch notes, Snyder, a volunteer strategist who eventually became a campaign manager for Paul's presidential bid, fell ill of pneumonia during the campaign. Snyder did not have health insurance, like the hypothetical example given by CNN's Wolf Blitzer, and stacked up $400,000 in medical bills. On June 26, 2008, exactly two weeks after Paul ended his bid for the presidency, Synder passed away due to complications from his pneumonia. Synder's family could not pay the bills left by Snyder, so friends set up an online campaign to raise the money for Synder's procedures.

Snyder experienced Paul's world of free market health care, a peculiar system that distinguishes the United States as the only Western country that does not provide basic care to its citizens. A look back at the charity effort launched to save Snyder's life reveals a grim failure. Despite Paul's insistence that charity is the appropriate response to America's uninsured crisis, Snyder's friends raised $34,870.53, far short of the $400,000 necessary to pay off his bills. View a screen shot below (click to enlarge):

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/09/14/318633/ron-paul-campaign-manage-died-uninsured/