[Sonora]

Get real - he’s a nutcase and those that follow him with just go on to the next nutjob, so nothing is really gained as everything happens in the middle and one cannot get to the middle from outer space.

Posting articles about nutjobs is a waste of space.

[rob777]

"... nothing is really gained as everything happens in the middle and one cannot get to the middle from outer space."


The middle NEVER initiates change. Change begins with a tireless minority that starts out being seen as a radical fringe element, but succeeds in gradually moving the center of the political debate in their direction until ideas that were once seen as out of the mainstream are now accepted as moderate. I have seen this scenario play out here in Vermont with a small band of dedicated "Progressives" slowly moving the political debate in Vermont leftward over a couple of decades. The result is that a once staunchly conservative state is now among the most left leaning in the nation.

The problem is that the right does not seem to have the long term strategic vision that the left has, and has trouble looking past the next election. The Paul campaign can match the left in passion, it remains to be seen if it can match it in long term strategic vision.