Quote of the Day

“Dismissing the burgeoning number of Americans on the right who are suspicious of interventionism and hawkishness is intellectually suspect and unwise. A majority of Republicans now think that the Iraq War was a mistake. The general non-interventionist impulse on the right has never completely gone away.” — Conor Friedensdorf, editorializing in TheAtlantic.com, on mainstream-media tendencies to write off the Rep. Ron Paul (R) presidential candidacy as an aberration.