Posted on 08/21/2011 6:15:12 AM PDT by rellimpank
Why is the American media so intent on ignoring congressman Ron Paul and his prickly libertarian views?
Paul is running for president in the Republican primaries, and it's plain that the handmaidens of the political establishment — Democrats as well as Republicans — are freezing him out.
He came within a few votes of winning last week's Iowa straw poll, just 152 votes short among almost 17,000 cast.
But rather than shower this intriguing candidate and his views with attention, the news media willfully forgot about him. The question is, why?
Perhaps the answer could be found during the recent Fox News debate in Iowa, in which Paul trashed Republican saber-rattling toward a potentially nuclear Iran.
"They're building up this case like, just like we did in Iraq — build up the war propaganda," Paul said. "It's time we quit this. It's time — it's trillions of dollars we're spending on these wars."
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Because he cannot win.
Uggggghhhh. They are why I removed those damned nite-lites.
But there are still their shreiks and voices to deal with; playing heavy-metal at 90 db all night masks most of it.
“I’ve heard many liberals switching to RP. It’s not much of a philosophical leap. Libertarianism is NOT Conservatism.”
You can bet RP has supporters running a booth again at this weekends Seattle Hempfest. And not one Lefty will be giving them a hard time. In fact they will welcome the booth, and treat the people as allies. Can you imagine though, if this was a booth for Bachmann, Perry, Palin, or any of the other Republican you could name? They would have to call in the Seattle PD to rescue them.
Ron Paul booth at Hempfest in Seattle (2010)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG0VLnTOzNw
During the 2008 election we drove through Seattle most Liberal area on our way to a Husky football game. It was not Obama yard signs we were seeing everywhere. RP yards signs were everywhere. Even bumper stickers plastered on telephone polls.
How is Paul a coward?
I’ve seen the same thing.. it points to a philosophy not grounded in the Constitution. Instead, it’s a hodge podge of arrested psychological development which liberals find easy to attach their marxism.
I am a conservative/ libertarian.
For me the distinction is that I am a conservative without the traditional nanny state propensities.
I oppose gun control, drug control, and want to eliminate 90% of the government. Cut every department and agency that is not carrying out a Constitutionally enumerated power.
Life (at all stages) should be protected by the 14th Amendment, and marriage should be limited to one man and one woman through Constitutional Amendment. At a minimum states should not be required to recognize any other kind of “marriage”.
I would like to repeal the 16th and 17th Amendments, prohibition, and deregulate the energy industry.
Then amend the Constitution to impose term limits-one 6 year term (starting with the next president in 2013)- two four year terms in the Senate, and four two year terms in the House.
Also return commerce clause jurisprudence to what it was in 1900.
That would be a good start to restoring freedom and liberty.
I love how the paultards have made this non-story a way for them to get more headlines. However, let’s look at some interesting facts.
Google news search of Ron Paul articles for the past 7 days shows 12,600 articles-
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ron+Paul%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=%22Ron+Paul%22&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=nws&source=lnt&tbs=qdr:w&sa=X&ei=mBVRToHbNOqOsAKzzMXGBg&ved=0CA0QpwUoAw&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=33456f87cdbf8c4e&biw=1366&bih=605
Michele Bachmann who won the straw poll, not much more, 18,300-
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Ron+Paul%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#sclient=psy&hl=en&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&biw=1366&bih=605&tbs=qdr:w&tbm=nws&source=hp&q=%22Michele+Bachmann%22&pbx=1&oq=%22Michele+Bachmann%22&aq=f&aqi=g5&aql=1&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=38411l41844l1l43232l18l9l1l0l0l4l1600l4276l0.1.3.1.0.1.1.0.1l8l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.&fp=33456f87cdbf8c4e
Basically, they are creating a false myth he is being ignored to drive more attention to him. He has been getting as much attention, if not far more, than many of the other candidates. At that, from what I’ve seen, it seems the media has been paying far more attention to Paul this go around, trying to paint the entire GOP with his kook brush.
It’s not because he’s nuts. It’s because they know he won’t win. They offer no more coverage to Cain or Santorum.
The media highlights him in the debates because he makes Republicans look like that crack-pot who slipped the leash at the nursing home and has been found down at the street corner in his bathrobe ranting at strangers.
The Republican Party created Ron Paul through the law of unintended consequences. If the GOP would simply pursue their stated agenda, advance the platform of ideas that attracts their grassroots membership, Ron Paul would disappear as an irrelevant footnote. We wouldn't be discussing him here on FR.
That’s music to my ears but I’m in no way a Libertarian. The principals rooted in the Constitution are enough for me.
The same sort that get attracted to Lyndon LaRouche.
Just so. The media did NOT ignore him. They paid roughly equal attention to him and to Bachman with this particular story. Just about every headline I saw said Bachman barely won and Ron Paul was a close second. When the results of the CPAC straw poll came out, the media went berserk over Ron Paul. And in both these events, they ignored the fact that Paul bussed in almost all his votes. They would love him to win the nomination, because it would ensure a Democrat victory in November. They always prefer a weak Republican candidate if they can get one.
Trying to keep him from examination until the old media and the Democrats launch him as a fiscal conservative/country club friendly third party candidate to split the Republican vote and give us four more years of Democrats.
Ron Paul candidature is being ignored for the same reason Harold Stassen’s was
It was awesome!
The lesson then is that society has shifted very far to the Left. The leftists of the 1940s are now the right-wing extremists of today. And the left-wing extremists of today? Waaaaaay over into crazy land -- but the media calls them "moderates".
Liberty, liberty, constitution, straw poll, straw poll, money bomb, money bomb, liberty. If you don't support Ron Paul, you are a lizard person. Liberty. Globalist, globalist, globalist, globalist, globalist. I win the debate.
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