bobbyw24
08-28-2011, 10:13 AM
WASHINGTON — While Texas' governor soaks up the media spotlight, Ron Paul plugs away as the outsiders' outsider in the 2012 presidential campaign.
The 75-year-old congressman from Lake Jackson with the message of less government and more liberty has built the largest grass-roots network in the Republican field, far larger than the team thus far assembled by his home state's governor.
And it was the libertarian and third-time presidential contender who finished just 1 percentage point behind winner Michele Bachmann in Iowa's Republican straw poll.
Although he gets precious little attention on the TV news networks — and is dismissed by the Pundit Elite as a libertarian “niche” candidate without broad appeal — he has been rising in the polls.
“Ron Paul's domestic policy views resonate with a growing faction in the GOP,” said Jim Granato, director of the Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston. “But his effect on Rick Perry or any other GOP rival will carry much more weight if he can win some primaries.”
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Though-not-in-forefront-Ron-Paul-gains-traction-2144468.php#ixzz1WKYcTbzn
The 75-year-old congressman from Lake Jackson with the message of less government and more liberty has built the largest grass-roots network in the Republican field, far larger than the team thus far assembled by his home state's governor.
And it was the libertarian and third-time presidential contender who finished just 1 percentage point behind winner Michele Bachmann in Iowa's Republican straw poll.
Although he gets precious little attention on the TV news networks — and is dismissed by the Pundit Elite as a libertarian “niche” candidate without broad appeal — he has been rising in the polls.
“Ron Paul's domestic policy views resonate with a growing faction in the GOP,” said Jim Granato, director of the Hobby Center for Public Policy at the University of Houston. “But his effect on Rick Perry or any other GOP rival will carry much more weight if he can win some primaries.”
Read more: http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_news/article/Though-not-in-forefront-Ron-Paul-gains-traction-2144468.php#ixzz1WKYcTbzn