As a viable candidate, Ron Paul has come a long way since his last campaign. He's no longer taking such a hard line on ending entitlements immediately, and he's promised to extend the Bush tax cuts—and he's been rewarded with a surge in the polls. But it will only go so far, writes Kimberly Strassel in The Wall Street Journal, because of the one area where he won't moderate his views: foreign policy. Paul's stuck to his isolationism, claiming the Sept. 11 attacks prompted “glee” in an administration eager to invade Iraq and condemning the killing of Osama bin Laden. “Because he can't, or won't, accommodate his own foreign policy views to those of the nation, there is only one bar to a Ron Paul victory: Mr. Paul.”
Read it at The Wall Street Journal
