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Pat Cunningham offers an unabashedly liberal perspective on national politics. A note of caution: The language gets a litttle salty on some of the sites to which this blog links. So, don’t say you weren’t warned. By the way, this blog’s name is inspired by the Will Rogers quote, “All politics is applesauce.”

This is pathetic

January 25th, 2008 at 07:43pm Pat Cunningham

If libertarian Republican Ron Paul could convert the passion of his supporters to real political power, he would easily win the GOP presidential nomination. These people are true  believers.

Unfortunately for Paul, his backers also are politically naive. Most of them  have no real grasp of the process.  Their hero has no chance in hell of winning  even one primary election or caucus, let alone the nomination, but many of them seem completely unaware of that hard truth.

The cluelessness of the Paulists is demonstrated by the campaign commercial below, which cites bogus, unscientific polls as evidence of their man’s popularity among the people. (The ad also is embarrasing for its many grammar, spelling and punctuation errors — including repeated uses of  the word “canidate.”)

  

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  • 1. fazsha  |  January 26th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    You’re absolutely right, some of the Ron Paul videos are amateurish, and he will not win. But no one, not even Obama, has anywhere near the devotion to their candidate as he has. Type in Ron Paul on youtube and you have over 100,000 hits. Type in Mitt Romney and you have less than 8,000. John McCain gets less than 4,000.

    Also, not all of us are uneducated. Some of us have read Ludwig von Mises, Frederic Bastiat, and Murray Rothbard. Ron Paul is not challenged on his monetary views on stage by the other candidates because they don’t HAVE monetary theories of their own. Are they monetarists? Keynesians? They won’t say, because they don’t have any idea of the difference.

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