Did Ron Paul Matter?

by Patrick Appel

In response to my thoughts on Gary Johnson and Ron Paul, Bernstein asks a couple important questions:

Really, what's striking about the Paul campaign is how little apparentsuccess it had in affecting the Republican Party.  I'm not aware of anyRepublican nominees in 2010, at least not at the statewide level, whohave adopted Paul's unorthodox stances on foreign policy.  It's truethat some strains of Tea Partyism seem libertarian, but mostly it'sjust standard-issue GOP rhetoric...