Ron Paul has mandate for equal time during Fox News debate (parenthetical slam added by request)

USA Daily ^ | 10/18/2007 - 11:04 a.m. EDT | Marty Eels

[George W. Bush]

Ron Paul has mandate for equal time during Fox News debate

Marty Eels
Published 10/18/2007 - 11:04 a.m. EDT


Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates running for president. He knows it, GOP voters know it, and as previously reported; media outlets are grudgingly admitting it.

Fox News, to their credit, has already started giving Paul more air coverage than before. Paul was a guest on Fox Business News yesterday.

Ron Paul commented on the issue in a message to supporters, “The blackout is ending; our campaign is starting to get mainstream media attention, thanks to growing donations and volunteers.”

Ron Paul continued in his message to supporters:

“All over America, our support is wide and deep and growing, and young people are joining like never before. After the Dearborn debate, I went to the University of Michigan for a rally. 2,000 students turned out, something that has happened to no other candidate this year.”

It is a remarkable fact that Ron Paul has consistently drawn crowds all across the country that continuously seem to dwarf those of his opponents. Given the scant media coverage Paul has received it is a testament that his message is resonating.

The Republican Party appears to be recognizing that Ron Paul has a chance of winning the nomination. Paul said to supporters:

“After all the aggressive wars, the assaults on our privacy and civil liberties, the oppressive taxation, and the crazed spending and deficits, I believe that many Republican voters are ready to return to our roots. And the big boys feel it too.It is no coincidence that the Republican National Committee invited me to a fundraising dinner involving only top-tier candidates."

Commenting on Alan Greenspan’s recent interview on the Fox Business Channel Paul said:

” the reporter asked if we really needed a central bank. Greenspan looked stunned, and then said that was a good question; he actually talked about fiat money vs. a gold standard. Now, the ex-Fed chairman is not about to endorse our sound monetary policy, but you know our Revolution is working when such a question is asked in the mainstream media, and this powerful man gives such an answer.”

He continued on about the crowd of 2000 at his campaign’s Dearborn rally:

“They cheered all our ideas, but especially our opposition to the Federal Reserve, and our support for real money of gold and silver, as the Constitution mandates, instead of prosperity-wrecking fiat money. American politics hasn't seen anything like this in many decades. It is truly revolutionary”.

Ron Paul’s campaign does not appear to be willing to sit in the background of the presidential race any longer and made that very clear Wednesday during a press conference. Paul’s campaign pointed out that only four candidates remain viable at this time in the Republican field.

Paul’s campaign highlighted that according to the financial reports, the indication is that the only viable candidates where Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Ron Paul. Mitt Romney’s campaign is viable as long as he continues to spend his personal wealth.

Ron Paul’s campaign may do many things in this election but it has already made media polls irrelevant suggesting them to be an outdated obsolete method of rating candidates. If the polls were accurate Dr. Paul should not be in third place in the GOP money race.

The cable networks have been giving a disproportionate amount of time in televised debates to what they believed to be the top tier of candidates (Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, and McCain).

'Expect a reshuffling of that order, replacing McCain with Paul during the Fox News debate in Orlando Florida this Sunday, or viewers may see a flashback to the famous Ronald Reagan line from a presidential debate, when he said, “I’m paying for this microphone” but instead, Paul might say, “the American people have paid for this microphone”.

[George W. Bush]

Many have commented on the division of time at the debates. This article suggests that this is changing. If so, expect to see both Huckabee (based on his Iowa showing) and Paul (based on his fundraising) to receive debate time more comparable to the 4 "first-tier" candidates.

[George W. Bush]

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[svcw]

Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates running for president. He knows it, GOP voters know it, and as previously reported; media outlets are grudgingly admitting it.

Is this a joke site?

How can 2% be top tier?

[B4Ranch]

FReepers who live in denial are NOT going to be happy about this!

[George W. Bush]

Is this a joke site? How can 2% be top tier?

Latest USAToday/Gallup:

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2. (Asked of Republicans and independents who lean to the Republican Party) Which of the following candidates would you be most likely to support for the Republican nomination for president in 2008, or if you would support someone else.

	Giuliani	F. Thompson	McCain	Romney	Huckabee	Paul	Tancredo	Brownback	Hunter	T. Thompson	Gilmore	Other	None/ no opinion
2007 Oct 12-14	32	18	14	10	6	5	2	2	1	n/a	n/a	2	9
2007 Oct 4-7	32	20	16	9	7	2	1	1	1	n/a	n/a	1	11
2007 Sep 14-16	30	22	18	7	4	4	1	2	2	n/a	n/a	1	10
2007 Sep 7-8	34	22	15	10	5	1	1	2	*	n/a	n/a	2	8
2007 Aug 13-16	32	19	11	14	4	3	1	1	2	n/a	n/a	2	11
2007 Aug 3-5	33	21	16	8	2	2	1	1	1	2	n/a	3	10
2007 Jul 12-15	33	21	16	8	2	3	*	2	1	1	*	1	11
2007 Jul 6-8	32	21	16	9	2	*	2	1	3	2	*	1	10
2007 Jun 11-14	29	21	20	8	3	2	1	2	2	2	1	1	8
2007 Jun 1-3	35	12	20	14	3	1	2	1	1	1	--	1	10
2007 May 10-13	32	12	24	10	1	--	1	2	*	1	1	3	13
2007 May 4-6	36	14	21	9	1	*	1	1	1	2	1	3	11
2007 Apr 13-15	38	11	24	10	2	2	*	1	1	1	2	3	6
2007 Apr 2-5	42	12	18	7	1	2	2	1	1	3	*	4	7
2007 Mar 23-25	34	13	22	4	2	1	1	3	1	2	1	3	13
2007 Mar 2-4	49	n/a	21	10	1	n/a	1	1	1	2	*	3	11
2007 Feb 9-11	42	n/a	25	6	2	n/a	2	4	2	2	2	4	10
2007 Jan 12-14	31	n/a	27	7	1	n/a	n/a	1	*	2	2	17	13

USATODAY.com

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So Paul is doing better than you think. And think about this:

• Huckabee and Paul are tied. Paul has real money, Huck is broke.
• Paul has half the measured support that Romney has. And Paul raised about half the money that Romney did from his supporters in 3Q (Romney loaned the rest to his campaign).
• Paul has much more money on-hand than McCain does. McCain is pretty much broke once you count his debt load.
• Ron Paul events are the most popular of any Republican candidate, bar none.

[George W. Bush]

FReepers who live in denial are NOT going to be happy about this!

That's okay. The Paul-haters can still contribute to this thread by spamming the keywords as usual.

[GeronL]

If Ron Paul is against the war on terror, then he is for the terror. Prosperity-wrecking fiat money?? Yes, we must be poorer than at any time in history. Never seen so much poverty and people living in caves and digging for grubs as in the US at this time in history.

[jmc813]

That's okay. The Paul-haters can still contribute to this thread by spamming the keywords as usual.

I'm sure a parenthetical slam will be up shortly as well.

[jmc813]

If Ron Paul is against the war on terror, then he is for the terror.

Yes. Ron Paul wants to see people slaughtered by terrorism. He gets off on seeing people killed. If it were up to Ron Paul, there would be an Oklahoma City every month. What an evil man.

[A CA Guy]

Paul will bring out the crazy for the debate.

Going to be a good laugh.

[ejonesie22]

Actually this is a good thing.

The old adage of “just enough rope” comes to mind when I read it...

[ejonesie22]

I don’t know about getting off on it, but he does seem to "lack" in the aggressively defending us department.

[GeronL]

don't put words into my fingers, Mr. Fortney Hillman Stark.

=o)

[svcw]

Oops, sorry 5%, you are correct thats 2.5 times more than I thought.

[Soliton]

Equal time AT LAST!

[Nephi]

Republican Presidential candidate Ron Paul has broken through to the top tier of Republican candidates running for president. He knows it, GOP voters know it, and as previously reported; media outlets are grudgingly admitting it.

• Fox News, to their credit, has already started giving Paul more air coverage than before. Paul was a guest on Fox Business News yesterday.

• “All over America, our support is wide and deep and growing, and young people are joining like never before. After the Dearborn debate, I went to the University of Michigan for a rally. 2,000 students turned out, something that has happened to no other candidate this year.”

• “After all the aggressive wars, the assaults on our privacy and civil liberties, the oppressive taxation, and the crazed spending and deficits, I believe that many Republican voters are ready to return to our roots. And the big boys feel it too.It is no coincidence that the Republican National Committee invited me to a fundraising dinner involving only top-tier candidates."

Commenting on Alan Greenspan’s recent interview on the Fox Business Channel Paul said:

” the reporter asked if we really needed a central bank. Greenspan looked stunned, and then said that was a good question; he actually talked about fiat money vs. a gold standard. Now, the ex-Fed chairman is not about to endorse our sound monetary policy, but you know our Revolution is working when such a question is asked in the mainstream media, and this powerful man gives such an answer.”

He continued on about the crowd of 2000 at his campaign’s Dearborn rally:

“They cheered all our ideas, but especially our opposition to the Federal Reserve, and our support for real money of gold and silver, as the Constitution mandates, instead of prosperity-wrecking fiat money. American politics hasn't seen anything like this in many decades. It is truly revolutionary”.

Paul’s campaign highlighted that according to the financial reports, the indication is that the only viable candidates where Rudy Giuliani, Fred Thompson, and Ron Paul. Mitt Romney’s campaign is viable as long as he continues to spend his personal wealth.

• Ron Paul’s campaign may do many things in this election but it has already made media polls irrelevant suggesting them to be an outdated obsolete method of rating candidates. If the polls were accurate Dr. Paul should not be in third place in the GOP money race.

• The cable networks have been giving a disproportionate amount of time in televised debates to what they believed to be the top tier of candidates (Giuliani, Romney, Thompson, and McCain).

'Expect a reshuffling of that order, replacing McCain with Paul during the Fox News debate in Orlando Florida this Sunday, or viewers may see a flashback to the famous Ronald Reagan line from a presidential debate, when he said, “I’m paying for this microphone” but instead, Paul might say, “the American people have paid for this microphone”.

Thanks to Ron Paul's patriotic courage, we're witnessing a resurgence of authentic conservatism through the new media and Fredrepublic doesn't have a clue.

Oh, and by the way GWB, the Huckster eliminated himself with his pro-alien, anti-American pandering.

[George W. Bush]

Oh, and by the way GWB, the Huckster eliminated himself with his pro-alien, anti-American pandering.

Huck's got some support, no denying it.

I didn't like how he said that stuff about how if someone is looking for the mean GOP candidate, he's not the one. I assume he was referring to Duncan or Tanc or maybe Giuliani.

I think the Values Voter folks are about to give up on Huck and throw themselves into Romney's camp. We see more and more endorsements from key Religious Right leaders so it seems they've about settled on using Romney to defeat Giuliani, perhaps with Fred in the background if his numbers and fundraising come up sharply in the next month or so.

[Designer]

svcw wrote; "Oops, sorry 5%, you are correct thats 2.5 times more than I thought."

from the chart;

Look at the patterns;

Rudy hasn't grown, despite his "front runner" position,

Fred was higher before he declared,

McCain is growing downward, (but he won't quit),

Mitt is growing nowhere,

but Huck and Paul have both grown in terms of percentage.

[Designer]

Huckabee said; "..the mean GOP candidate, he's not the one."

I wonder if he would have said "compassionate conservativism" if someone hadn't done so already?

[svcw]

RP growth would have to be 640% to be tied with RG.
That hardly seems like front runner status.
(based on these charts)