It looks obvious

The Republicans facing defeat in November 2008 and the only question is are they going to invest in the future. Does the GOP ready to take the same risk it took in 1964 and to face current defeat but plant the seeds for the future? In 1964 The GOP elect a second tier candidate, instead of electing on of a list of respectful and well known candidates. The fact is that regardless of who was the Republican candidate in 1964 Johnson would have won. However, electing Goldwater was a decision that gave the party purpose and a course which led to Reagan’s victory and to the victory of the mid-term election in 1994.

The Republican facing a dire defeat in the 2008 elections, a defeat they well deserve. The American voters are tired from the corruption, the Republican version of big and intrusive government, the assault on human rights and from the war in Iraq and Afghanistan - and non of the first tier candidates seems to be any different from the disappointing promised conservative message - which has very little to do with Goldwater and Reagan.

The GOP can try to illusion itself and believe in the legend of Giulian’s electability just to see Hillary Clinton destroy him in the general election, or they can choose to invest , again, in the future and nominate Ron Paul. Nomination of Ron Paul will not ensure victory in 2008, quite the opposite, but it will plant the ideological seeds for ideological alternative for Clinton’s brand of socialism. Observers of the 2008 campaign recognizing Paul’s effect on college students and other young adults, effect that no other Republican had, these are the deeds that the GOP has to garner and cherish; those are the people that the GOP should collect into its bosom - they are the only chance of the Republican to save itself from becoming irrelevant. The way to start the long way back to the hart of the American public starting with Dr. Paul.

I don’t know if Ron Paul realized this himself. However, from listening to him in the flood of interviews that followed his great 3rd quarter, he stop presenting himself as a one issue candidate. The CNN interview is a good example how Ron Paul start to present a more comprehensive philosophy of individual freedom.

I would oppose Goldwater foreign policy ideas and I think that his opposition to the civil right act was extremely wrong and I disagree with Dr. Paul on some issues. But both, Goldwater and Ron Paul, standing and reminding to America that the American revolution was about freedom from government - and this is a very good place to start rebuilding a movement from it ruins.

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