Ron Paul: A Frontrunner in the GOP for President?
As Far as the "New" Media is Concerned, Paul is a Frontrunner
The old media is somewhat looking stupid and left behind, struggling with the old ways to rely on the mood of the country and are failing miserably at seeing just what is happening and what is changing for them, as information can't be tamed anymore by five or less "mainstream" sources.
I must confess I myself don't rely on them to bring true substance to my table anymore. The Internet with a browser and a search engine can bring to my fingertips detailed information on subjects of interest and sustance of certain events, never to be spoon-fed again by the mainstream media with soundbytes and tabloid news.
Never again do I have to see what Paris Hilton did, or what the latest guru says about raising a healthy family or having a good relationship. Nor do I have to sit there and let them tell me who the presidential front-runners are, while the whole time it's not necessarily true.
Ron Paul's campaign just recently raised 2.4 million in Q2 of this year and now surpasses the so called front-runner John McCain in campaign finances, yet the mainstream media keeps telling us Paul has minimal support and is not a frontrunner.
Before and after the second presidential debate hosted by FOX News, they were calling Ron Paul, a third tier candidate, a longshot, a darkhorse. The poll numbers came in that night, and he ended up second out of three top candidates. In fact he was 1 or 2 points behind the leader that night in the phone poll.
Immediately they began to say support for Paul was rigged, or his support, spammed the phones.
The Republican establishment leaders tried to put the nail in the coffin of Ron Paul and his campaign, when he told the truth about our foreign policies in that second debate by trying to ban him from further debates.
It backfired, big time. Immediately, Ron Paul's "pronounced" minimal support, showed up in droves to make sure he is heard. "Freedom is popular, I guess" Ron Paul would say and has said on the campaign trail.
Unfortunately, for the "old media", Ron Paul's message of freedom and liberty is popular and is revolutionary.
In many ways, this grassroots, netroots, swell of support for candidates and ideas, is revolutionary this election up to 2008, in the way the citizens will get their media and information on candidates, who they will get it from, and how some will use this "new" media to get their voices heard to the masses, sometimes even louder than the old media could ever hope to accomplish, at a fraction of the cost.
Barack Obama got a "mainstream media" plug after a supporter made a video called "I Got a Crush...On Obama" By Obama Girl, which I would expect them to highlight, as they often feed us tabloid entertainment, passed off as news, rather than a story of real substance.
I try to imagine how great it would have been, and what it would have been like, if Martin Luther King Jr., would have had this technology to speak about his message of freedom for all. How he could have marched around the world with the message of freedom, virtually unhampered.
So it is, with protecting our liberty and freedoms today, as the Champion of the Constitution, Ron Paul, can virtually be unhampered to speak the message of freedom and liberty into the hearts of men again, the kind of substance that really matters to all, from every walk of life in America.
I've heard of Democrats for Paul, Independents, Constitutionalist, Libertarians, Christian Conservatives, all in support of Paul, simply because the message of liberty has been able to be heard.
Liberty does unite us, whatever party, whatever religion, to form a more perfect union, rather than partisan politics of left and right issues that only divide us, leaving us with less liberty and more corrupt government.
The "New" media of average daily folks like you and I, will be the ones who can revolutionizes how we see as a nation, what the proper role of our government ought to be, rather than being told how its gonna be by elitist through the "Old" media and shunning choices who would lead the cause for a return to Constitutional sized rule of law government, for the people by the people.
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2 Comments
Post a CommentI still have hope that Paul will succeed, otherwise Republicans have lost the White House to Hillary with all the other liberal candidates the GOP establishment has offered up. All of them members of the globlist org, the CFR.
I as a Conservative will not vote for fRudy,or Shrillary, not enough differences for me.
So I will probably end up voting Ron Paul by writing in his name, or switching to a more conservative third party.
Surely these media polls which rely on internet voting cannot be trusted in saying he's the frontrunner? Paul supporters tactics are to flood the sites with multiple votes for him. When he starts polling high in the independent led polls, then I'll believe it. He'd be my favorite as far as the Republicans, certainly the only non-semi-insane one up there. Unfortunately I still think he's mostly seen as a third party candidate despite his party affiliation. The country remains unprepared to seriously support a national third party candidate in truly competitive means. My suggestion to friends that are Paul supporters, is to support, but be aware chances are slim of getting the nomination, to none of winning the election. Rather support networking and the ground up organization for a third party, focusing on the next election, it seems too late for this one.