tangent4ronpaul
08-25-2011, 05:56 AM
We may have a major problem here...
http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/25/ron-paul-cant-get-any-respect/
Texas Congressman Ron Paul is running within two points of Barack Obama in this week’s Gallup poll. In a Rasmussen survey, he trails by one. He’s rising against his primary rivals and raking in money, netting $1.8 million in a trademark “money bomb” over the weekend to mark his 76th birthday. And yet, as I write in a story for this week’s magazine, his candidacy isn’t earning plaudits from the pundit class, whose virtual coverage blackout of Paul’s second-place finish in Ames prompted Jon Stewart to wonder why the media was treating Paul’s campaign like “the 13th floor of a hotel.”
On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Paul harvests these slights as fuel for the revolution. “The media coverage on Sunday morning was less than perfect for us,” he told the crowd last week at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Concord, griping about how he was stonewalled from speaking slots on the morning news shows after Ames. “But you know what, in this day and age, they just aren’t as relevant as they think they are.” The Rodney Dangerfield routine in a crowd pleaser; the media makes a reliable target. And in some ways he has a valid complaint.
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But Paul isn’t really running for president, at least not entirely. He is waging a “campaign of ideas,” as Jesse Benton, his campaign chair, told me. And his ideas — about the problems with the Federal Reserve, the need to cut spending and shrink the size of government, the pointlessness and prohibitive cost of some of our foreign engagements — are catching on, among both his colleagues in Congress and on the campaign trail. “He hasn’t moved toward the center of the party,” says libertarian scholar David Boaz of the Cato Institute. “The center has moved toward him.”
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Paul’s camp says he’s in it to win it. “Winning validates the ideas,” Benton says. But the candidate can seem less interested in winning the nomination than winning the ideological battle. Right now that fight is trending his way.
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So WTF is going on here? Did Benton just say Paul is running another educational campaign or is it the reporter spinning it to say he's not in it to win the nomination/presidency? Paul did very clearly tell us he was in it to win this time, so whats going on here?
http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/25/ron-paul-cant-get-any-respect/
Texas Congressman Ron Paul is running within two points of Barack Obama in this week’s Gallup poll. In a Rasmussen survey, he trails by one. He’s rising against his primary rivals and raking in money, netting $1.8 million in a trademark “money bomb” over the weekend to mark his 76th birthday. And yet, as I write in a story for this week’s magazine, his candidacy isn’t earning plaudits from the pundit class, whose virtual coverage blackout of Paul’s second-place finish in Ames prompted Jon Stewart to wonder why the media was treating Paul’s campaign like “the 13th floor of a hotel.”
On the campaign trail in New Hampshire, Paul harvests these slights as fuel for the revolution. “The media coverage on Sunday morning was less than perfect for us,” he told the crowd last week at the opening of his campaign headquarters in Concord, griping about how he was stonewalled from speaking slots on the morning news shows after Ames. “But you know what, in this day and age, they just aren’t as relevant as they think they are.” The Rodney Dangerfield routine in a crowd pleaser; the media makes a reliable target. And in some ways he has a valid complaint.
...
But Paul isn’t really running for president, at least not entirely. He is waging a “campaign of ideas,” as Jesse Benton, his campaign chair, told me. And his ideas — about the problems with the Federal Reserve, the need to cut spending and shrink the size of government, the pointlessness and prohibitive cost of some of our foreign engagements — are catching on, among both his colleagues in Congress and on the campaign trail. “He hasn’t moved toward the center of the party,” says libertarian scholar David Boaz of the Cato Institute. “The center has moved toward him.”
...
Paul’s camp says he’s in it to win it. “Winning validates the ideas,” Benton says. But the candidate can seem less interested in winning the nomination than winning the ideological battle. Right now that fight is trending his way.
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So WTF is going on here? Did Benton just say Paul is running another educational campaign or is it the reporter spinning it to say he's not in it to win the nomination/presidency? Paul did very clearly tell us he was in it to win this time, so whats going on here?