Ron Paul appeared on ABC News’s This Week yesterday and put on a passably good performance:
Both David Griffus @ LewRockwell.com and David Weigel @ Hit&Run make something of the closing exchange between Paul and Stephanopoulos:
Stephanopoulos: What’s success for you in this campaign?
Paul: What’s success? Well, to win, is one, is the goal.
Stephanopoulos: That’s not going to happen.
Paul: Do you know for absolute? Are you willing to bet every cent in your pocket for that?
Stephanopoulos: Yes.
Paul: You are. OK. I thought so when I ran for Congress. I wouldn’t bet anything I could have been elected to Congress. The odds are great, the odds are difficult, and I know that. But I would say that what has happened so far has been about 100 times greater than I anticipated.
Frankly, I think it was a totally legitimate question Paul consistently polls below 3% in every scientific poll that has been conducted to date. He has raised, at best, 1/10th of the amount of money as the frontrunners in the Republican race. The one thing he’s proved good at is getting alot of free media coverage. But that’s not enough to win a Presidential campaign.
Reason summed it up well in it’s candidate profile series last month:
It would be nice to live in a world where Ron Paul could actually win.
Yes, it would.
July 9th, 2007 at 7:41 am
George is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), as are most of the Republican and Democratic candidates. Of course George does not want Ron Paul to win. Ron Paul does not advocate the CFR’s plans for One World Government, which would be run by international bankers and resemble communism.
George makes the mistake of attacking Ron Paul. It’s the people that are carrying the campaign, not Ron Paul, at this point. Anyone can see that already. Even if Ron Paul loses, there will be millions wanting change in the government. This is an unstoppable fire that is spreading quickly.
July 9th, 2007 at 11:10 am
Spin, Mataconis! Spin, little man!
Ron Paul has tens of thousands of self-organizing, self-coordinating, tech savvy, very highly motivated volunteers –and their numbers are growing. They are going to change the American body politic in ways we haven’t seen since FDR.
And against this you offer…yesterday’s polling practices, which you label in true Orwellian style as “scientific”!
Keep telling yourself that, Mataconis. You’re starting to suspect what’s coming, aren’t you?
And yeah, why don’t other journalists point out that Stephanopoulos is a CFR member? Because the MSM is part of the problem.
But don’t worry, the internets is solving that problem, with a little help from Ron Paul!