I'm talking about not just myself, but Ron Paul.

An Appeals Court has ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional.

Below is a column I wrote on the subject way back in April of 2007 in which I quoted the then-obscure Ron Paul.

My point is not just that both I and he were way ahead of the curve on this issue.

My point is that most of the Republicans now screaming about the individual mandate are just joining a choir that was silent through the entire 2008 presidential campaign. Back then, few Republicans raised objections to the mandate and many even approved of it, as my citation from the National Review illustrates. I'm sure the people at that publication are now against the mandate, though I stopped reading that house organ of the Trotskyite movement years ago. But they, like many other Republicans, backed the mandate until they realized it violated basic principles of conservative theory, as you will see in my colloquy with the long-forgotten Tommy Thompson.

Here's the column: