Ron Paul struggling for good reason
Joseph M. Beck
For the past several weeks it seems like you can’t engage in an online political discussion anymore without someone complaining that Ron Paul is receiving a media blackout.
These complaints are poorly worded and in all caps, as most complaints on the internet are. As a member of the press I would like to explain why it is that Dr. Paul isn’t getting the spotlight attention he so feverishly thinks he deserves.
There is no conspiracy, Dr. Paul. News networks and respectable newspapers don’t report on you because the prospect of you losing the race isn’t news.
Ron Paul is perhaps the biggest clown in the circus tent that has become the Republican primary. Nowhere in his “speeches” does anything close to a rational thought appear. I wouldn’t be very surprised if he fired his speech writers early on and now just comes up with them on the fly.
The appeal of libertarianism is probably great to people who have minimal knowledge of how an economic system works.
You get all of the freedoms that social conservatives want to take from you; and if you don’t think about the economy too much, somehow that fixes itself too.
Paul is touting a return to an economic theory of deregulation that has wreaked havoc on much of the middle class’ savings accounts.
I honestly thought that the crash in 2008 was enough to convince once and for all that trickle-down economics.
In the words of William Blum, trickle-down theory is “the principle that the poor, who must subsist on the table scraps dropped by the rich, can best be served by giving the rich bigger meals.”
I could forgive Paul if his only failing was not paying attention in economics class. He also has a little problem with racism. He opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 saying that it “Failed to achieve its stated goal of promoting racial harmony”
His newsletter, “Ron Paul’s Freedom Report” has come under fire for being incredibly racist. Among other things, the newsletter asserted in one article that “We can assume that 95 percent of black men in that city (Washington) are semi criminal or entirely criminal.”
Paul has denied authorship to many of the offensive articles in the newsletter that bore his name.
Paul himself has been quoted on the matter of sexual harassment saying, “Why don’t they quit once the so-called harassment starts? Obviously the morals of the harasser cannot be defended, but how can the harassee escape some responsibility for the problem?”
No one in the GOP primary is totally sane; but Paul is so far away from anything even close to rational.
My one regret this year is that I am a registered Democrat and therefore will not receive the honor and distinction of voting against him
