Friday, September 28, 2007

Ron Paul: Are you ready, Chicago?

Blake Dvorak writes on the Ron Paul ralley in Chicago,

....it's a circus of ideologues each with their own pet causes. Paul deftly satisfies the factions individually with his peculiar politics, but what this amounts to is a grab-bag of radical policy proposals. Some might say that this is libertarianism or "true Republicanism," but the fact is that it leads to a chaotic campaign, whose only guiding light is some mythical American past where an unsullied constitutional order reigned. Not to mention that Paul brings out the kind of person who spends their days pining for the gold standard and that's the not person you want your daughter bringing home.
Somehow I think a surprizing number will be bringing them home in the GOP primary. Obama signs so common I don't notice. He's gone stale for all: like him or not.

The only other signs (i.e. energy) I see around are for McCain and Paul. Now what these guys do with the rest of the ballot when your daugter brings them home, I wonder. They seem like an ice cream crowd to me.

Update: Reid Wilson on RCP Blog,
And while he's gotten little attention outside his fervent and fanatic fan base, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who finished the second quarter with more cash on hand than Sen. John McCain, could have another surprise in store for the media establishment his supporters so often malign.
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Paul won't outraise any of the front-runners, but the frugality with which he is running the campaign, as well as the fervency of his supporters and his presence in Iowa and New Hampshire, mean that he will be one second-tier candidate unwilling to drop out before the nominating process takes its course. Paul could cause some serious problems for the front-runners, and it looks increasingly like he will have the money to compete in at least a few early states.
Maybe Ron Paul is the Black Swan.

5 comments:

hahajohnnyb 6:52 AM  

I would rather my daughter to come home with a Ron Paul supporter than for my son to come home with Mark Folley or Larry Craig.

Anonymous,  5:37 PM  

Yes, I prefer the guiding light of what America was.

Socialism Sucks !!!

We give our money to those who would squander it with out regard or benefit.

I would prefer my daughter to bring home a Free Thinking Individual rather than a Totalitarian Subject. I can talk with a Free Thinker and agree to disagree when necessary. With the other I may be accused of crimes not committed out of fear that their paradigm may not be as beneficial as they would like to believe.

Benevolence is not mandatory and liberties once surrendered are not as easily taken back.

Bill Baar 6:57 AM  

As a Father of two daughters, I can vouch one major concern is the dude they bring home, has a job.

Anonymous,  1:42 PM  

Don't you think it a contradiction that in one post, you're singing the praises of lightpost cameras, and in the next, pimping for a libertarian?

I'm just asking.

Bill Baar 8:28 PM  

No, not at all.

I disagree with Paul on almost everything, and I'm Hamiltonian, not Libertarian... but he's an interesting guy and I think MSM mistaken to ignore him.

Check Dan Erdman's review of Look Homeward, America. In Search of Reactionary Radicals and Front-Porch Anarchists.

The past six years have found progressives, liberals, and socialists busily rethinking their ideologies, allegiances and priorities. The tumult of the post-9/11 world has shaken up the certainties of the right as well. The result has been what Tony Blair called ‘an orgy of political cross-dressing’.

You're going to see a lot of political cross-dressing in 2008.

Paul's just first on the stage and the least appealing.

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