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Keeping Up With Ron Paul: A Debate Tool
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By Gene Byrd
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Where do we go from here? The real story on the Republican side of the aisle in the months leading up to the very first votes being cast was a Texas Congressman named Ron Paul. None of the other GOP candidates were generating any kind of excitement, let alone any kind of a buzz and New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani was placed as the frontrunner by default.
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Behind the scenes of the race, Ron Paul watched as a wild movement was built in his name. it was dubbed the Ron Paul revolution and there were meet ups, money bombs and blimps and a whole lot of hope that this election season, things would be different. The gist of the movement was that it was so passionate that it didn't need mainstream coverage. In fact the grass roots would reach up from the earth and swallow the Republican establishment.
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Three elections into the nomination process it has become clearer that the pollsters were correct and this strange little congressman may have money, message and hope, but he doesn't have enough votes to even make a blip on the radar screen. The revolution won't be televised, it appears that it won't even happen.
Candidates were warned that they couldn't keep up with the Paul supporters when it came to fundraising, straw polls and text polls. Dr. Paul has won every Internet poll about every Republican debate that has been offered even though almost every other GOP candidate has kicked him around in the debates with a lot of success. Right after John McCain chastised him on his Iraq war stance, he won big in New Hampshire. It was Mitt Romney's turn last week.
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He slapped Paul on Iran and he won big in Michigan. Earlier reports have speculated that Rudy Giuliani made a lot of political hay when he beat up on Dr. Paul on the blowback theory he likes to spout for the reason behind the 9/11 attacks. Basically, Paul has become a debate tool for the other candidates.
Keeping up with Ron Paul may mean allowing him in debates, and then scolding him once he tries to express his point of view. That was predicted earlier here. It certainly has helped everyone that has been willing to do just that. Will it continue and who's next, Mike Huckabee?
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