No, the question is not about Paul. It is why others get a free pass and are not held to the same standard as Paul.
If you really oppose terrorism, you should oppose candidates who support Islamic regimes. If you really oppose baby-killing, you should oppose candidates who triangulate their position on baby-killing. And if you really oppose Global Warming, you should oppose those who subsidize ethanol. The question is why don’t I see this happen.
I do agree that Ron Paul has no chance of winning, but the same is true for Herman Cain.
Herman Cain still has a possible future in politics, he is new, this race could have meaning for him.
Paul was never able to win anything out of his safe district and that became clear many years ago, nonetheless, the guy still rakes in the millions for his perennial campaigner lifestyle.
The coverage is just something for the political press to do waiting for next year. So don’t worry about disqualifying people yet. Heck don’t you want campaign Carl to have something to do?
Paul may get pointed out the most but the candidates who are not going to win the nomination include:
1. Legislators: Bachman, Newt, Paul, Santorum, ect. The US electorate does not elect legislators to executive positions unless given no other choice like last time.
2. Anyone who has not won a statewide election.: Bachman, Cain, Newt, Paul, Trump etc. Like any other job running for office involves certain skills that are honed over time. You don’t go from never running a campaign or never running a campaign larger than a congressional district to running winning national campaign.
So we are left with the governors and ex-gov: Huntsman, Johnson, Palin Pawlenty, Perry and Romney. Four years ago I wondered if being an ex-mayor of a really large city would do it and then Rudy ran a terrible campaign to underline the statewide election point and is dithering away again this time too. But rest assured if the GOP is to win in 2012, it will be with someone with executive not legislative experience.
BTW, my own personal criterion now is were you conservative in 2008. That is the key. Did you cut and run and jump on the global warming bandwagon as Pawlenty did or as apparently Romney still is. If someone one not confident in their conservative convictions could have been scared into revealing it, 2008 was the year. So I am very curious to know more of what Perry was saying in 2008. I know Palin was not scared away from her convictions. I know Pawlenty was by the warmists. I know Romney is not conservative. I know Newt was and was voluntarily filmed on a couch with Pelosi.
To me you can not trust someone in DC who can be scared out of their professed conservative values. That is what the DC establishment is all about. So what these candidates said in 2008 is the key to me.