Ron Paul just can’t get no respect

While it’s difficult to conceive of a circumstance when I would actually vote for Ron Paul, and while some ideas he holds that can only kindly be characterized as “lunatic,” I have to give the man his due: he is an iconoclast, consistent in his lunacy, speaking truth (or at least his opinion) to power, and unwilling to mouth the general array of GOP dog-whistle talking points.

Which is perhaps why the media seems so determined to ignore him.

Hang in there, Ron! Even though you’re not as sexy as Sarah, as coiffed as Rick, as well-moneyed as Mitt, or as utterly nuts as Michelle … you outclass all of them.