From the Free New York and Lew Rockwell Blogs:
“Ron Paul has accepted an invitation to participate in the first national presidential debate in New Hampshire on Wednesday, April 4. It will be hosted by Wolf Blitzer and will be carried on CNN TV, radio, and cnn.com from 7-9 p.m. EST. (Thanks to Johnny Kramer.)”
I wouldn’t vote for Paul or any other candidate as an opponent of democracy, but I think this is a great possibility to persuade and interest people in libertarian ideas and gladly support his efforts to spread the message of freedom. Maybe he’ll get attention for the cause of New Hampshire tax resister Ed Brown as well.
The Free New York blog entry is here the Lew Rockwell one here.
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Did I read that correctly, The first debate is this April 4. Instead of actually doing anything the state needs 2 years to justify its existence. Well maybe thats a good thing. The more debating and campaigning they do the less harm they can do. Or maybe they are to efficient at destroying freedom that the bureaucrats can do it with out them.
Jimminy Cricket, if reasonable men – regardless of their ideology -couldn’t get behind a Ron Paul candidacy, vote, and encourage others to do so, in five years – a decade at the most – one can forget the way of life as we know it.
Yey. I knew it. I wrote an article on why I think he will win (http://davidlita.googlepages.com/ronpaul)
I have never been so excited about a presidential candidate — I mean, WOW, a candidate who actually understands the concept of limited government and wants to implement one…
Us “regular folks” are going to have to work like never before if he’s to have any chance because the establishment politicians can’t have a limited-government candidate threatening to undercut their power. Congressman Paul will be attacked from all sides.
I don’t think Paul can win, he won’t have hardly anyone in the mainstream media supporting him or even giving him a fair shot. What he can do is affect the political debate in this country and bring up critical issues like the massive debt and deficit spending we have.
One thing is for sure though. For Rep. Paul to have any kind of success, people are going to have to DO something to help him in the real world, like fundraising and spreading his message.
Chip said: ” Congressman Paul will be attacked from all sides.”
That would be an improvement, as he is now being ignored. ABC’s evening news recently had a “complete list” of Republican candidates. Ron Paul was not included.
Well, one thing’s for sure… Paul can probably count on the votes of many disaffected anti-war liberals. Air America’s been hawking him pretty heavily on the air this week (and that’s been the saving grace of their regrettable programming).
Do the blowhards on Air America understand Ron Paul? Umm… no. Ed Schultz had Ron Paul on yesterday and seemed completely baffled… “you’re extreme right on some issues, extreme left on others, centrist on some…”. Paul’s response was – paraphrasing – “at least I’m right”, in the sense of being correct, which sounded good.
Schultz was positive. He mentioned the website for Paul’s exploratory committee four times and repeated at several intervals in the two hour lead-up to the five minute or so discussion that he has been implored regularly to feature Paul on his show from many people. He stressed that praise for Paul centered around his different and interesting ways of looking at things.
I don’t like to vote, either, but I’m definitely making an exception for Paul. The single biggest issue facing the United States is the war and all of the consequences of it – the military regimentation of the economy, expansion of federal power, restrictions on our movements, etcetera – and Paul is the best candidacy out there with a hope of stemming the prevailing tide.
When did RP announce he was running for president? Or does “participate” just mean “ask questions”. Even that would be good.
Ron Paul wins straw poll, Pajamas Media cries foul
http://disinter.wordpress.com/2007/02/13/ron-paul-wins-straw-poll-pajamas-media-cries-fowl/
Does anyone know if Ron Paul has been invited to this debate:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0207/2753.html
Yes, Dr. Paul has been invited to the Politico/MSNBC poll as well:
http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_5353652,00.html
I’m excited to see this because, with the media going out of their way not to cover him (as I expected), these debates are probably Dr. Paul’s best opportunity to make a dent. I can’t predict the future, but I think we’ll know he’s making an impact if we see two things:
1. He gets past 3-4% in the polls, which will force the Establishment media to cover him as that will put him past the margin of error and ahead of everyone else in the race except the candidates the media has chosen as the front-runners.
2. And we see the mainstream media beginning to sling mud at him ferociously, which will be the consequence of #1.
I predict (and sincerely hope) that it will backfire, and that the more attention they pay to him, the more his popularity will grow — even if the attention is negative. All he needs is to get enough support to get some traction, to where the media has no choice but to cover him. But I could be wrong.
“Chip said: ” Congressman Paul will be attacked from all sides.”
That would be an improvement, as he is now being ignored. ABC’s evening news recently had a “complete list” of Republican candidates. Ron Paul was not included.”
I saw a morning C-Span program (29 January) where this guy (Perry Bacon) from Time magazine was on talking about the presidential candidates. (Time’s cover story at the time) They started to take callers and a guy asks what Bacon thinks about Ron Paul. Bacon says he doesn’t know anything about him. The C-Span interviewer imedietly knew who Ron Paul was when the caller asked.
I consider the effort to push Ron Paul into obscurity as an attack. He is unique among all the candidates in that he is the only one who believes in a limited government. Both Democrats and Republicans are advocates of an ever-expanding big government — they just disagree on what form the big government should take. But they all would oppose Paul’s idea of reducing the size of government.
Keeping his name out of print is an effective tactic. Here’s hoping those of us who agree with Paul can push his name into the fray and force both Democrats and Republicans to deal with him and his superior ideology.
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