Libertarian-leaning Ron Paul made a bush-league mistake when he walked out of an interview with CNN. Years ago, Paul published a newsletter under his name in which some racist stories and articles appeared. Paul contends he didn’t really supervise the publication at all, and that he merely lent his name to the newsletter. Perhaps.
If so, why walk away from an interviewer? It’s a bad move: one should never walk out. If anything, one should insist on staying longer, and talking about more things, to compensate for talking about what one contends is a bogus issue.
This was a rookie mistake, from a man whose age and experience leave him anything but a rookie.
(In the end, though, regardless of the day-to-day GOP dramas, I’d be stunned if Gov. Romney were not the GOP nominee.)
Here’s Paul’s unforced error: