Gaining leverage with the failing economy

[Matthew Zak]

I think it's possible that the very most effective way to give Ron Paul (and the like) some much needed mainstream credibility (aka electability) is to relentlessly push the mises/austrian view down as many throats as we collectively can until the night of the election in 2012.

Because we know, almost for certain, no matter how urgently the establishment will want to ignore Ron Paul (or anyone like him) that the economy will most likely be the most important factor in the election. People will be listening this time. And we will be talking.

Even better -- the message will change minds, and thus rhetoric will drift closer to ours. Ron Paul's electability will grow simply because people will be closer to it. Other candidates will sound more libertarian, because you know both sides of the spectrum heard us last year. They both want 'this' chunk of the pie. And we WANT them to want this chunk of the pie.

Feed it to them.

[tangent4ronpaul]

Other candidates will sound more libertarian, because you know both sides of the spectrum heard us last year. They both want 'this' chunk of the pie. And we WANT them to want this chunk of the pie.

Feed it to them.

Or not. What we are going to see is other candidates embracing libertarianism, then if they get into office going back to business as usual. Just like Obama quadrupled the debt and is now singing fiscal conservatism / PayGo (with loopholes) because he knows his health care package won't fly without it.

This will probably just turn people off to the concept - unless Paul wins. And even then, there is only so much he can do with a hostile congress. At least he'd have that veto stamp....

-t