Well, in a way he is rebuilding the party. After all, look at all the people who simply don’t bother to vote because the candidates are so similar. Look also at all the young people who, out of pure cynicism haven’t bothered to vote yet. Ron Paul is gathering up these “lost sheep” and making a new and perhaps powerful flock. If the mainstream GOP doesn’t find some way to keep them happy they’ll just whither away along with the future of both parties. We’ll be left on an increasingly steep and rapid slide toward Socialism.
I make no bones about it - I hope he is elected President but I don’t think that’ll happen. So I’m left with hoping the Republican Party will wake up and embrace its original ideals of small government, limited expenditures and keeping out of other people’s business - as Ron Paul would like us to.
Again though, I don’t think that’ll happen either.
Ah, another Paulite who thinks 9-11 was our fault.
90 percent of that flock was backing antiwar Howard Dean in 2004. So much for being powerful. But living in abject ignorance of history does tend to blunt one's power over time.