Posted on 08/09/2007 7:14:58 AM PDT by CenTexConfederate
Ron Paul big on 'Net, but media don't notice
Clarence Page August 8, 2007
WASHINGTON
Of all the interesting little fish swimming beneath the currents of the major candidates in this presidential campaign season, none is making waves as surprising as those kicked up by Rep. Ron Paul.
The Texas Republican, who embraces a libertarian point of view, has been riding an unimpressive 2 percent in the polls, but if the presidential election were held in cyberspace, Paul would probably win hands down.
Paul's supporters flood online polls, such as the unscientific survey ABC News invited viewers to join after the Republican debate last Sunday. Yet, you could barely find the Texas doctor in the network's after-debate coverage, despite the vigorous applause he ignited with his call for an immediate withdrawal from Iraq.
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This is a nice article. Let’s hope he has a good showing in Iowa.
Like Paul or not, he keeps things stirred up. And both parties could use someone to come along and pee in their champagne. :)
Break out the Kool Aid again.
Is this the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy or a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy? Or are they in it together? That's it, they're all alike... no difference...
The media is ‘noticing’...and recalling Howard Dean in 04.
Geeks and other smart people can understand him. It’s the simpletons that just can’t get passed the knee jerk reactions the status quo have been pounded into their heads over the years.
Clarence Page is a died in the wool liberal Dem.
Aw hell...
It is getting too easy...
So I want to reach out and help with the Media.
Need a slogan though...
Got it.
Ron Paul 2008, a short wave in every bunker!
I wonder what would have happened in 2004 if old howard hadn’t screamed.
Why does this sound more like a self fulfilling conspiracy, just working the other way to delude them into thinking there is more support than there is?
Clarence Page is a died in the wool liberal Dem.
Yep, I suspect he probably wrote about McCain in 2000 in similiar light.
I wonder what would have happened in 2004 if old howard hadn’t screamed.
His stunning inconsistencies would have made it a landslide for Bush.
The sad thing is this Professional Geek understands him, and his ideas are almost great, but that ones that come up short are dangerous...
Which makes it fun of course.
I also know that Star Trek is not a documentary and they really are not out to get us...
“Ron Paul 2008, a short wave in every bunker!”
Heh, I got all three of those. The yard sign, the short wave and the bunker.
I’ll have to fire up the old short wave and see if anyone is talking about Paul. It’s been a while.
He hasn’t put in that much effort. He’s a one man campaign. Come on now. No advanced team, opposition research. He relies on the internet. Now Romney has a virtual army of people on the ground. He’s spent over a million dollars on this straw poll.
“but that ones that come up short are dangerous...”
I understand your concern, we live in a dangerous world. It goes back to that Safety vs. Liberty thing for me. I haven’t seen another candidate that isn’t willing to sell out the liberty part on behalf of the safety net.
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