You're new to politics, aren't you? Never seen a political candidate treated in such a derisive manner? Let's see, Bob Dole; Ronald Reagan (his first run for POTUS); Dan Quail; Gary Hart (to have one on the other side of the spectrum); George Herbert Walker Bush; if I did some research I could come up with more candidates who were escoriated by the Lame Stream Media. R-U-N Paul is not as unique as you make him out to be. Then there's the factor that his ideas identify him as a kook. He and Dennis Cookoocinich are two from the same mold.
So now it’s kooky to want to hold fedgov in the constraints of the Constitution? Who’d a thunk it??? It’s Conservative to want to intervene externally, Liberal to want to intervene internally, and it’s moderate to want to do both... but it’s kooky now to want to do neither? You have some strange notions of what’s right, dude.
(Attribute my paraphrase to Joseph Sobran, I believe)
No, I go back to the famous LBJ bomb commercial. My statement still stands. While the people you mentioned did have some problems with the MSM, it was not at the level of what they have done to Ron Paul.
Actually Gary Hart was the darling of a lot of the press until the incident with the boat.
Also all of the people you mentioned had defenders in at least a portion of the media. Nor do I remember any newscasters actually lying to discredit any of you candidates mentioned above.