The New York Times Forgets That Ron Paul is Running For President

The New York Times has a long editorial on the Presidential campaign.The Times seems to be confused with the facts:

Make no mistake, there are choices to be made in this first election in many, many years in which both parties’ nominations are being contested. Most of the Republican contenders (with the exception, most of the time, of Senator John McCain) offer the same kind of politics of division that has so polarized this nation over the last seven years. It is a politics that thrives on religious and social intolerance and fear.

Mr. Huckabee, the Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, cloaks himself in affability and Christianity. But he bullied Mr. Romney into pleading with religious conservatives to accept his Mormon faith as Christian enough for a Republican nominee and, after professing charity, has recently become a scourge of undocumented immigrants.

Fear often appears to be the only plank on which Mr. Giuliani, the former mayor of New York, is standing, when you can tell where he is standing at all. Mr. Giuliani, who parlayed the 9/11 tragedy into a lucrative business and now speaks, bizarrely, of the “9/11 generation,” has switched his views a dizzying number of times — on immigration, on abortion, on New York.

Almost as dizzying, in fact, as the pirouettes executed by Mr. Romney, who wants American voters to forget his record as governor of Massachusetts — where he endorsed gay marriage and reproductive choice — and believe what he says now that he wants to be president. Among Mr. Romney’s tailored-for-the-campaign proposals is to double the size of the prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which even President Bush knows must be closed.

All of the Republicans want to continue President Bush’s disaster of a war in Iraq, including Mr. McCain. He, however, has taken a courageous stand for immigration reform, which seemed to doom his candidacy last year, and is a strong advocate of the need to confront global warming and to stop the abuse of prisoners in Mr. Bush’s system of secret prisons.

Last night,Ron Paul trounced Guiliani.So to say "all" Republican candidates are for Bush's war isn't exactly correct.As Mickey Kaus would say,sometimes even five layers of editors can't get the facts straight.