Posted on 09/07/2007 8:29:47 AM PDT by rface
The Legal Newswire - It is obvious that, after seeing the Fox News Debates on Sept. 5th, 2007, the mainstream media and GOP see Ron Paul as enough of a threat to stop ignoring him, and to start ridiculing him. From using a split screen to show Giuliani smirking as Ron Paul answers his questions, to the background chuckles as he is asked questions, Ron Paul has apparently become the butt of an inside joke.
However, with a 33% win in the post-debate poll, it is Ron Paul who should be laughing. Of course, Sean Hannity could not resist making the ridiculous statement that the “Paulites” had spammed the poll. The argument, both false and illogical, is used to attempt to plant the seed in the minds of the American people that Ron can’t win, and conclude he is a “wasted” vote.
If it were possible to vote multiple times from one cell phone, then what would be the advantage for Ron Paul anyway? The mainstream media would have us believe that the “front-runner” candidates are so popular, wouldn’t their supporters also text multiple times? In any case, it is impossible to vote twice. I tried it to make sure. So, unless Ron Paul supporters have suddenly become an independently wealthy group of lunatics, with dozens of cell phones each, the results must be representative of REAL PEOPLE.
The bottom line? The FOX News talking heads would have us believe that when the polls show unacceptable results, they must be wrong. This argument is wearing very thin. The American viewers who were paying attention were sure to see the obvious bias of the debate coverage. A full thirty minutes passed before Dr. Paul was given a chance to answer a question. This, after the “big three” had answered two or three each. Tancredo was also given very little time compared to McCain, Romney, and Giuliani.
The bias was not only in the in total time, but also the placement of the time. McCain, Giuliani, and Romney got both the first and the last word in the minds of the American people, opening and closing the debates. Then, they were the first to be interviewed by Neocon lapdog Hannity.
Ron Paul will not win over the entire Republican base. But he does not have to. The Ron Paul Revolution embodies the United, not Divided, States, as Huckabee would insinuate. He is pulling support from both sides of the aisle, drawing in the independents and the disenfranchised as well. The Republican and Democratic voters who put party loyalty above the issues will never vote for Ron Paul. Fortunately, they represent the minority.
So here we are, in the second phase of Gandhi’s aformentioned four phases. This is good news, because it means we are starting to make a difference. However, I predict that it won’t take long for them to move into full attack mode, looking for any and every opportunity to discredit and expose the skeletons in the closet Ron Paul must be hiding from the American people. Fortunately for us, we have a man with the integrity, character, and voting record to back up what he says.
It would sure be nice if we could get all the nominees to a debate that was put on by some kind of truly independent organization (if there even is such a thing). Fox News shills for Rudy McRomney just as blatantly as the Big 3 shill for Hillary, to the point that they discredit their own polls when the results aren’t what they want.
I wish that Duncan Hunter had been next to Ron Paul instead of Huckabee. Hunter is my other current favorite, and I would have liked to see how he would have handled the one-on-one with Paul over whether to leave Iraq. Huckabee was pretty weak sauce and got steamrolled even with the moderators supporting him.
No, that would be the land of the current occupant of the White House, John McCain, Mitt Romney, Julie-Annie, Limbaugh and other delusional neo-con chicken hawks referring to the state of Iraq.
dinoparty wrote: “Who is Ron Paul?”
Based on the article, he’s apparently the future Republican Party nominee. I also read he’s supposedly quite popular with foreigners, too.
Except for the tinfoil hat (those darn neocons!) and the way he foams at the mouth when he talks about pulling us out of Iraq, he’s almost rational.
I can hear the script kiddies and hackers snickering at that naive statement.
(chuckle)
Along with those of us that know better....
If it's a strict adherence to the Constitution, slashing the size of government, letting us keep more of our own money, and ending this suicidal foreign policy of pissing off as much of the world as we possibly can, then I'll drink to that.
LOL! I still love that. :)
So let’s see, if you disagree with the War in Iraq, disagree with U.S. foreign policy, that makes you a “kook” ?
LOL, yeah that's it. The 'evil' ones are buying all the throw away phones just to vote in a Faux News poll. For a debate watched by approximately 1% of the population. Those dastardly sneaks!!
Ron Paul is our Dennis Kucinich.
No one, I mean no one but the loons even pay attention to the mental midget.
Exactly.
—a liberal following of moonbat dems.............taking some time off from anti-war demonstrations to flood the poll lines.
I heard the guffaws and laughing and clearly it sounded like the moderators were not being fair to him. One thing is sure, he is not "establishment" material, so when or if any of those types of people like Paul make a splash on the national stage, it pisses the establishment off, and they have a clever set of methods to put such an uppity politician in his place. I saw them do it to some other big name, non-establishment politicians over the years. It follows the patter of ignore, ridicule, then destroy. George Wallace got that MSM treatment, but he kept plugging on in Michigan and Maryland and became a BIG threat. They put a stop to that of course.
;)
I suppose that's true for people who spend lots of time watching Oprah.
Why not? We've already seen that the Paulestinians are not above spamming internet polls. Why not "graduate" up to spamming Fox News polls? After all, with 1% of the population viewing, that just makes them able to enrich the mix for RoPaul more easily, since there's statistically fewer "other" callers phoning in to vote.
I don’t agree with this. Dr. Paul is not a traitor; however, I do question after every event; there is a story accusing someone of doing something wrong to him.
That’s a little to fantasy land Hillary like to me.
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