Ron Paul and the Presidency – It’s Closer than the Media thinks

By Doug Wead

“Control the coinage and the courts, the rabble can have the rest.” – The Princess Irulan in Frank Herbert’s Dune.

Last week was a good week for the so-called “constitutional wing” of the Republican Party, those indomitable Ron Paul people. Okay, sure, the next presidential election is a long way off but a recent snapshot taken by pollsters shows a surprising opening for the Texas congressman, the man who says that the Federal Reserve should be audited. The general public is moving toward Ron Paul, even if most of them don’t even know who he is.

According to a recent Gallup Poll, 50 per cent of all Americans don’t think Obama deserves re-election. Only 38 per cent think he does. 65 per cent think that most members of Congress don’t deserve re-election. Three of four Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country (as reported in USA Today, April 1, 2010).

Meanwhile, 48 per cent of Americans think that Sarah Palin is not ready to be president. 29 per cent think she is.

And what gives the Ron Paul campaign an opening is how equally angry the public is with both political parties. For the first time a majority of the public puts both Republicans and Democrats in the unfavorable column. (Ibid.) A pox on both of their houses. It is a complaint that Ron Paul has been making for years.

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