“Some in the Republican establishment and the conservative media will panic. Others will calmly move to crush him, with the full cooperation of the liberal mainstream media.” the Examiner’s Timothy P. Carney warned in a widely read column yesterday.

The Examiner’s Philip Klein responded to Carney’s column yesterday reminding Paul supporters that the days of the “Ron Paul double standard” were over and that Paul would receive the full scrutiny of a frontrunner. “Paul doesn’t get to have it both ways.” Klein wrote, “If he wins Iowa, his outrageous statements and ugly associations will be granted a lot more attention.”