A Reporter Gets It
A Reporter Gets It
Writes The Star Ledger’s (NJ) Paul Mulshine:
I suspect I know more about the Ron Paul candidacy than any other journalist in America.
I’ve been speaking with him for five years now, which is about four more than anyone else.
Most of the other journalists who dealt with Paul basically asked him the same stupid question over and over: “Will you be running as a third-party candidate?”
They never asked Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry that…
Meanwhile Ron Paul stayed in the race the longest and is still accumulating delegates for the Republican National Convention in August.
NPR political commentator Ken Rudin, on whose show I appear now and then, has a good grasp of the situation, and he displays it here:
For most of the past year, nearly every journalist who interviewed Paul felt compelled to ask him if his ultimate goal was to run as the Libertarian Party nominee (as he did once before, in 1988). Paul kept saying he had no “intention” to do so, but few believed him.
Everyone seemed to miss the obvious: It is all about the future of the Republican Party.
Paul says his campaign will not spend any money in the 11 states that haven’t yet voted, and he won’t. For one thing, he doesn’t have the money. But he will be — and has been — packing county and state conventions with his supporters and electing Paul-friendly activists as delegates … even if they are committed to voting for Romney in Tampa. “I hope all supporters of liberty will remain deeply involved,” Paul wrote. “Become delegates, win office and take leadership positions.”
Read the whole thing. No matter what happens in November, the liberty faction within the Republican Party is not going to go away.
You can read the rest of this article at:: http://www.ronpaul2012.com/2012/05/26/a-reporter-gets-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-reporter-gets-it
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Posted by RobertButler
on May 26 2012. Filed under 2012 Presidential Campaign.
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