JESSE WALKER: “Ron Paul’s press conference today has been taking a beating in the Hit & Run comment threads, mostly from people who can’t see the point in appearing with non-libertarians like Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin. I’m more impressed that Paul managed to get two of the most prominent left-wing figures in the country to declare that ‘there should be no increase in the national debt’ and to attack the Fed’s ‘arbitrary power to create money and credit out of thin air behind closed doors for the benefit of commercial interests.'”