Tone changes
It is interesting to note how the media coverage of a candidate get a different tone after a good fundraising quarter…
Paul may be wrong — rhetorically or programmatically — about a whole number of issues, but he’s not nuts. He also has a better knowledge of practical politics than he would ever like to let on.
It probably won’t be enough to put him over the top in the Republican primaries, but he may manage to give his better-funded, respectable front-runners one hell of a fright.
The task of demonstrating the need of the GOP for the Libertarian votes, and better yet having those votes as a swing votes in a close race, isn’t such a bad position to be in.
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"Paul also votes against most spending bills but makes earmark requests...His supporters can try to explain away items such as the earmarks by saying that is the unfortunate price of doing business in Washington. That may be true, but it’s a price Paul has been willing to pay."
It's been proven that dog can't run worth a lick, but the neoconservatives and scared $#!#less left--sorry, I repeat myself--still shove it off the porch at every opportunity. These folks are hoping that somehow the folks who would otherwise care about Paul's candidacy will stay home because Paul isn't 100% their ideal candidate (notwithstanding the irrelevancy of earmarks to spending votes)? Isn't that kind of odd, when one considers the GOP left's OTHER concern--to keep the party whole, and keep social conservatives and libertarians voting for their Rudy McThomney crowd? I also like how they intimate there are other skeletons in Ron Paul's closet with that 'such as the earmarks.' If you've got dirt, spill it, junior. Otherwise, stop pretending you care about an informed electorate--and stop pretending you care about clean elections.
However, I'm still laughing hardest at the bloggers who suggested Huckabee should drop out and that McCain is doing badly financially. When you only raise $5 mil in our system, or you're only polling 8%, months before the primaries, you should quit while you're ahead, according to these learned analysts.
I'll look forward to the primaries after NH to see what the reality is. Everything else is spin and conjecture.
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