Ron Paul may not be a big supporter of Warren Buffett, the billionaire investor who has become the face of President Obama’s plan to raises taxes on the wealthy, but he’s a gigantic fan of his father, Howard Buffett.
The elder Buffett was an ultraconservative Congressman in the 1940s an 1950s, known for his challenges to Franklin Roosevelt’s expansion of government, his isolationist foreign policy, and his support for the gold standard. As the Washington Examiner’s Phillip Klein noted in a detailed profile this week, he was in many ways the “Ron Paul of his day.”
Paul volunteered Buffett as one of his favorite politicians at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast on Wednesday.
‘Anyone ever hear of Howard Buffett?” he said. “I wish he had been president.”
And as for his son?
“I think Howard Buffett’s son is not a chip off the old block,” he told TPM.