I find myself drawn to Chris Hitchens much like I'm drawn to Holden Caulfield, he really gets at all the phonies out there. I am curious to hear his take on Ron Paul. If anything, Rep. Paul is no phony, he tells you exactly where he stands, and means it. Come on Hitch, what do you think about the good congressman from Galveston? As a devotee` of Tom Jefferson, I'm wondering where you stand on this strict constitutionalist.

utra-critic Hitch will trash your hero next...he has nothing positive to say about anything. that's his schitck!

No. No. oh and No.

I am happy to say that this is the first article I have ever read by this author and I hope the last. Acid and hate, must be another republican voter.

Hope and change are enough for now. I would rather judge the man for what he may do than listen to people who don't seem to offer anything I want done.

Since Ron Paul seems not keen on the idea of separating church from state (<link>), I'd imagine Hitchens would have a venomous word or two to say about him.

You call that espousing and end to the separation of church and state? It seems to me he is suggesting that government take no active role in not only promoting religion, but in expunging it from the public discourse. A truly neutral position for the government would not really involve pushing multiculturalism as that involves, to a degree, promoting the minority religions (just as affirmative action promotes minority races).

Ron Paul is about sifting through what we have rejected in our rush to the future and finding those treasures that we abandoned too soon. Along the way, reflections such as these are inevitable. Nonetheless, he clearly states that a national religion is bad.

I really don't want to see nativity scenes paid for by public dollars and placed on public land myself, but I, too, still say "Merry Christmas."