acmegeek
02-21-2008, 10:37 PM
I was playing checkers with my 4 year old daughter tonight. It was her first time playing. As many of you know, you don't just dominate and take advantage of someone who has no reason to have really known how to play. I gave her plenty of opportunities to jump and have her pieces "kinged". In the end, I had 3 kings and she had 1. She enjoyed it and learned some of the rules along the way. Even a simple game like checkers involved strategy. It involves anticipating future moves, both yours and your opponent's.
In this campaign, the candidates are not playing something as simple as checkers, they are playing chess. And they are not novices or at least they shouldn't be in their positions. This game started out with 11 sides, but now with just 3, the victor will simply be the one who has planned out all his possible moves to a checkmate. Our beloved Ron Paul is a chessmaster and in spite of all the blocks that his opponents and the race in general have thrown at him, he knows what he is doing and has calculated every possible checkmate scenario.
Now, I personally am not a great chess player, barely amateur at best. So when I watch others play, I may be genuinely surprised at the kind of plays they may setup. Right now, many of us and most of the rest of the voting population are but amateurs as we watch this chess match slowly unfold. We think we know what is going on. We may think we know who looks like they are winning. But in the end it simply comes down to who has thought it through and who knows how to adjust their strategy no matter what their opponent does.
So, I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Ron Paul is in this to win it. If you believe he is the man to run this entire country and save us from most certain doom, trust him to have a very well-planned strategy to win this entire thing!
It isn't a secret anymore that pawns become queens.
He has the money, he has the strategy, he still has the most devoted core group of supporters of ANY of the candidates, GOP or DEM. And he alone has the consistent principled integrity our nation so deserves. He alone has a researched, detailed plan to excise the root cancers that are killing our country. He alone is truly being honest with the American people and even more importantly, being honest with himself.
So, in the next few weeks, pull out your chess board, or even play some online chess. You may gain a fresh perspective on what true long-term strategy really is. You may realize that sometimes you have to appear weak and vulnerable to instill a false confidence. All I know is that it isn't as easy as it looks...
In this campaign, the candidates are not playing something as simple as checkers, they are playing chess. And they are not novices or at least they shouldn't be in their positions. This game started out with 11 sides, but now with just 3, the victor will simply be the one who has planned out all his possible moves to a checkmate. Our beloved Ron Paul is a chessmaster and in spite of all the blocks that his opponents and the race in general have thrown at him, he knows what he is doing and has calculated every possible checkmate scenario.
Now, I personally am not a great chess player, barely amateur at best. So when I watch others play, I may be genuinely surprised at the kind of plays they may setup. Right now, many of us and most of the rest of the voting population are but amateurs as we watch this chess match slowly unfold. We think we know what is going on. We may think we know who looks like they are winning. But in the end it simply comes down to who has thought it through and who knows how to adjust their strategy no matter what their opponent does.
So, I've said this before, but it bears repeating: Ron Paul is in this to win it. If you believe he is the man to run this entire country and save us from most certain doom, trust him to have a very well-planned strategy to win this entire thing!
It isn't a secret anymore that pawns become queens.
He has the money, he has the strategy, he still has the most devoted core group of supporters of ANY of the candidates, GOP or DEM. And he alone has the consistent principled integrity our nation so deserves. He alone has a researched, detailed plan to excise the root cancers that are killing our country. He alone is truly being honest with the American people and even more importantly, being honest with himself.
So, in the next few weeks, pull out your chess board, or even play some online chess. You may gain a fresh perspective on what true long-term strategy really is. You may realize that sometimes you have to appear weak and vulnerable to instill a false confidence. All I know is that it isn't as easy as it looks...