Ron Paul and the Presidency – It’s Closer than the Media thinks
posted by Josiah Garber on June 5, 2010
in Economics, Politics, War & Peace
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.
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.