Fearful columnist (pictured right) hopes Ron Paul fails in bid to White House.
Ron Paul admits he doesn’t know where his campaign for president is going.
Not the White House, that’s for sure, but Paul has been surprised by the size of the crowds he’s drawing and the money he’s raising, so he figures to stick with it a while longer, including through the Jan. 15 Michigan primary. “The money’s coming in,” Paul said during a meeting earlier this month with the Free Press editorial board. “And when you get 1,200 people at a rally, college students, the antiwar people, the people against big government … something is going on in this country.”
Maybe so, but Republican Paul will hedge his bet by also filing for re-election to his U.S. House seat from the 14th District of Texas, which runs along the southern Gulf Coast of the Lone Star State. What the heck, the way the primaries are all bunched up early next year, he only needs to hang in on his presidential bid until Feb. 5, when the nominees will likely be decided. Meantime, Paul is a legitimate enough candidate to be invited to all the debates, meet with editorial boards, and generally get his message out in ways that would not be available to a mere congressman.
He is actually getting more attention now than in 1988, when he was the Libertarian Party candidate for president and finished third behind George H.W. Bush and Michael Dukakis, but with less than one-half of 1% of the national vote.
Paul wouldn’t agree, but he is among what critics consider “vanity candidates” or limited-issue folks who clog up the early going in every presidential race. With just a few months left before the primaries, the Republicans at the moment have only four candidates with a chance of winning the nomination, and the Democrats have three. Yet when the candidates assemble, you have a mob — 10 on the Republican side and eight Democrats, all sharing space and time, most of them dreaming that lightning will strike — everybody else — or trying to be credible enough to be considered for vice president.
Dear Sir;
Ron Paul is not a ‘vanity candidate.’
Romney, Giuliani, Thompson and McCain most definitely are because they’re merely reflections of the very worthless Republicrat status quo. Dr. Paul comes to the table with traditional American ideas, ideas rooted in the founding of my nation, that have long been ignored by vanity journalists –such as yourself– and vanity hacks in Washington.
Very truly;
Frank Roman