Lucille
05-15-2012, 03:43 PM
Ron Paul Biographer: Campaign Shift is "Utter Idiocy" (http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/15/ron_paul_biographer_campaign_shift_is_utter_idiocy _.html)
"I'm angry beyond belief," said Brian Doherty.
Me too.
"I can't think of any explanation that makes sense, so I assume some conspiratorial explanation I'm dreading the conversations I'm going to have with people next week," said Doherty. "They were announcing what they were already doing. Why did they make a big deal out of it? If it's not part of a secret deal with Romney, it's merely utter idiocy."
[...]
"He sort of did the same thing for a better reason in 2008," said Doherty, "but this is an extremely un-propitious time for me and my book -- and I would say, for him and his people, his followers. The news about Ron Paul today, if he hadn't done this, would have been that his supporters raised ruckuses in a number of conventions... the racking-up-of-delegates thing, which he'd been doing well with, had been the story about Ron Paul. They made the story about something else today. I wish they hadn't done it."
Me too.
"I'm angry beyond belief," said Brian Doherty.
Me too.
"I can't think of any explanation that makes sense, so I assume some conspiratorial explanation I'm dreading the conversations I'm going to have with people next week," said Doherty. "They were announcing what they were already doing. Why did they make a big deal out of it? If it's not part of a secret deal with Romney, it's merely utter idiocy."
[...]
"He sort of did the same thing for a better reason in 2008," said Doherty, "but this is an extremely un-propitious time for me and my book -- and I would say, for him and his people, his followers. The news about Ron Paul today, if he hadn't done this, would have been that his supporters raised ruckuses in a number of conventions... the racking-up-of-delegates thing, which he'd been doing well with, had been the story about Ron Paul. They made the story about something else today. I wish they hadn't done it."
Me too.