Title: I still think this is one of the best RP answers. Carl Cameron is a Zionist Media SHILL Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:Oct 17, 2010 Author:Carl Cameron (SHILL) Post Date:2010-10-17 21:35:51 by Itistoolate Keywords:None Views:132 Comments:3
I'll tell you a story of Ron Paul's campaign in 2008.
Around June of 2007 he started in earnest announcing he was a candidate. At that time polls were being done to see who likely Republican voters favored as the primary contests would select the republican candidate. and in the initial polls Paul was showing up at 0%. Other Republicans that the media had popularized were polling much higher from the very beginning. Mayor Guiliani of New York City was polling over 30% when he very first started in summer of 2007 before any campaigning.
In September of 2007 there were major tv networks that hosted debates for the republican candidates. And through December of that year there were about a half dozen such television events. After each tv debate there was polling done to focus in on the people who said they watched the debate. And each time Ron Paul was the most popular candidate among people who were planning to vote republican and had watched the debates.
By December of 2007 there was one poll that showed Ron Paul at 15% and McCain at 17%. and they were the 2 out front.
Then in January of 2008 the tv news networks began to turn their attention to making comments on the race. Ron Paul was identified as being not a serious candidate. He was discredited by the tv news commentators and by the extreme negative things that other republican politicians said about him. Guiliani said in more than one debate that Ron Paul was not a real republican. Yet Paul had been elected to congress for 20 years as a republican.
When the primaries came from February to May of 2008 Ron Paul actually won 2 states outright. That was Nevada and Louisiana. In both states republican officials said the voting was a mistake and did it all over. and in both states Ron Paul finished 2'nd when that was done. But the initial results from the party itself said he won.
There were several other states where Paul finished 2'nd, but never first. He beat Guiliani in about 10 of 11 states prior to Guiliani dropping out.
The media doted on McCain and identified him as the leader. Because of this he ended up the republican winner and Paul was a distant second in the republican contest in terms of gaining delegates to the convention. Despite Paul's popularity the party made it very hard on him. His delegates were persecuted against and sometimes not allowed to participate. All of the other candidates' delegates ended up supporting McCain.
So many republicans told me they couldn't support Paul because Paul wouldn't win. But that was an impression created entirely by the media. Paul was popular and could have won.
In American politics every 10-15 years a leader comes along who wants to change things (unlike the pretender Obama). And those people are always dealt with somehow. In 1972 George Wallace was shot after it became evident that he was wildly popular and would win the Republican nomination. Recall that in 1981 Reagan was shot. And in 1963 Kennedy was shot. In 1992 Ross Perot was the victim of some dirty tricks. Perot was winning in August of 1992, more popular than either Clinton or Bush. and all of a sudden he held a press conference and said that the CIA was trying to destroy his daughter's wedding. Something was very wrong, not the least of which was that he gave off a very bad impression over something that had apparently happened. He never recovered from that and many questioned if he wanted to win. He started out wanting to win.
As Barry Goldwater said, you can tell the honest men in politics because they're the losers and they sometimes have arrows coming out of their backs.