December 17, 2007
The Facts
Just in case you haven’t been watching the news in the past two weeks, Ron Paul is raising more money than many of the Presidential candidates on both sides of the isle. Yet, he is very, very low in the polls. Typically big donations equate to high polls, but that isn’t happening with Paul. Everybody is asking why.
My View
I think there are two basic reasons if not three; the media is not talking about him except when he is raising money and he is not taken serious as a winning candidate by the voters. And if there is a third reason it is his position on the war in Iraq. On the latter, very few voters really believe that we can just make a decision to close down the shop and move out the next day. We have to get out of Iraq, but now that we have been duped by Cheney and Bush into getting in, we have to be very careful of how we pull out. That “cut & run” method is what got all this mess started in the first place when everybody’s favorite President Ronald Reagan cut & run when the Marine barracks was bombed by Hezbollah in 1983.
There probably are a few more reasons that Ron Paul is not getting the poll votes, but may have less overall affect individually. Collectively they may have a bigger affect. There is no doubt that the far right wing extremist don’t want him. And it is just as obvious that big business doesn’t want him. They wouldn’t have the carte blanche that Cheney and Bush has given them. Lastly, the fact that he is a Libertarian scares some people. That’s because they don’t really know what a Libertarian is. Ron Paul’s people should use some of that money to educate people on Libertarianism. I believe that would help a lot.
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