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Knightskye
05-27-2010, 02:20 AM
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1992201,00.html


When Paul ran as a Republican in 2008, a new coalition of groups as varied as homeschoolers, active military personnel and zealous college kids went wild for his unpolished, taboo-breaking authenticity. With his jumbled syntax, reedy voice and wiry frame, Paul is the opposite of a state-of-the-art jut-jawed pol like Mitt Romney.

:)


Rand may be the talk of Washington at the moment, but his meek-mannered 74-year-old father Ron is in many ways the improbable godfather of the Tea Party movement. In a GOP lacking for compelling leaders, he may be the man with the most potential influence as the 2012 campaign approaches. (See portraits of the Tea Party movement.)

Ron Paul's 2008 presidential campaign, with its message of limited government and its anti-Establishment ethos, created a kind of do-it-yourself model for the current activism shaking up politics around the country. The Paul campaign even inspired the first modern-day tea party that anyone can remember: a December 2007 antitax protest re-enacting the original Boston Tea Party on its 234th anniversary. (On that same day, Paul's fervent supporters raised an astounding $6 million online, a single-day record.) The message then, as now, was a revolt against government taxes and spending and what his supporters called "tyranny." "Dr. Paul was pushing for fiscal responsibility and limited government long before the Tea Party moniker was slapped on it," says John O'Hara, author of the book A New American Tea Party.

I'm just glad the author wasn't Joel Stein or Joe Klein.

BuddyRey
05-27-2010, 02:59 AM
Wow! They really hit it out of the ballpark with that one.

0zzy
05-27-2010, 03:53 AM
decent article. not so critical.

good thing about this debacle is that it happened as fast as it could have. The DNC is what some people would call a "three hump chump."

sailingaway
05-27-2010, 07:44 AM
Great article given how superficial the publication usually is!

Ninja Homer
05-27-2010, 10:25 AM
Nice! Pretty fair article. They're only seeing one side of the Rand Paul "debacle"... maybe they'll see the other side of it when the next poll comes out.

Knightskye
05-30-2010, 05:22 PM
Nice! Pretty fair article. They're only seeing one side of the Rand Paul "debacle"... maybe they'll see the other side of it when the next poll comes out.

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20105300332


The new poll -- in which 569 likely voters were questioned by telephone -- found Paul would beat Conway by a margin of 51 percent to 45 percent if the election were held today.

Six-point lead. Ouch.

I'm sure he'll inch back up once him and Conway start airing ads.