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Ron Paul For President!

“Ron Paul’s speaking to people like me,” Barbara Hagan, a former New Hampshire state representative and mother of seven, says one recent evening before dinner in the Manchester Radisson. “He’s an honorable man. He’s a hardworking man. I want my party back. I want my country back, and I want the U.S. out of Iraq.”

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“I like to think of myself as a Barry Goldwater conservative,” he [Ron Paul’s New Hampshire Campaign Coordinator Jared Chicoine] says. “When I think of the 1960s, I think of conservatism. People say, ‘Reagan, Reagan, Reagan,’ but what about Goldwater? That’s why I consider myself a paleo-conservative.”

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Why all the work for such a long-shot candidate? “I think [Paul’s campaign] should refocus conservatives about what it means to be conservative,” Chicoine says. “We have to be about more than preemptive warfare.” ~The Washington Post

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Daniel Larison is a senior editor at TAC, where he also keeps a solo blog. He has been published in the New York Times Book Review, Dallas Morning News, World Politics Review, Politico Magazine, Orthodox Life, Front Porch Republic, The American Scene, and Culture11, and was a columnist for The Week. He holds a PhD in history from the University of Chicago, and resides in Lancaster, PA. Follow him on Twitter.

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