Andrew Malcolm: Why Ron Paul's silly campaign launch today really matters for 2012

[RonPaulFanInGA]

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2011/05/ron-paul-ron-paul.html

[Bern]

Good read. Andrew's column was one of the few media voices that was fair to Ron Paul in the 2008 campaign. I left the following comment:
Ron Paul was the Johnny Appleseed of the tea party. Nice.

The media made a concerted effort to silence Dr. Paul in the 2008 campaign after the big money bomb showed him to have legitimate support. But his ideas don't need the media spotlight to grow.

Washington DC is now a corrupt, corporatist mess. The political machines have no vested interest in changing the status quo. They are dependent upon it. We need a principled statesman now more than ever. Ron Paul 2012.