“None of this is to say Romney was the only candidate who got mired in the immigration fever swamps. Twenty-one years ago, seeking the Libertarian Party nomination for president, Ron Paul filled out a CNN questionnaire with unashamed open borders answers. Asked whether ‘the new immigration bill’ was ’solving the problem,’ he wrote ‘no’ and that the way to fix it was ‘open all borders.’ Paul opposed strengthening the U.S. border patrol and making English ‘the official U.S. language.’ But in April 2006, just as the current immigration maelstrom starting churning, Paul demanded that the government ‘allocate far more resources, both in terms of money and manpower, to securing our borders’ as the only way to solve ‘immigration problems and the threat of foreign terrorists.’ And Paul ran hard on immigration this year. … More than a week before Super Tuesday I asked Paul why his stance had evolved or whether he was trying to just win votes.” (02/06/08)