There comes a time during the course of ones candidacy where the attack phase begins. This usually occurs around the time a particular candidate becomes a threat to those considered “frontrunners,” and the frontrunners are generally those who have two pre-requisites: the most money and the highest traditional polling numbers.
Well, as Ron Paul begins to come up from behind rather rapidly, his attack phase begins. And one such attack is from one Kevin Drum of CBS news. Because Dr. Paul is essentially bulletproof when it comes to digging political dirt, the best these so called professional journalist can do is pull the childish “nutjob” or “fruitcake” card. Luckily, most of the educated masses never respond to such adolescent attempts, and those that do readily come to their senses when you simply ask them, “how does that make him a fruitcake?”
Kevin’s article can be viewed here; it is a 4 paragraph essay which attempts to characterize Ron Paul as someone who’s crazy, but like all hit pieces provides no substantive arguments to show it. Rather, it’s an amalgamation of emotion and contradiction. “In the last Republican debate I saw, this noted truth-teller gave a strange and convoluted answer about his economic policies that the audience plainly didn’t understand,” writes Kevin. Nor do I understand as Kevin forgot to cite what that example was. This is no different than the village idiot trying to sell someone three magic beans saying “trust me” they work.
He also goes on to contradict himself by suggesting the following, “Next time I expect to see some straight talk about how we should return to the gold standard and get rid of the Fed. This should be followed by a question about whether he supports the free coinage of silver at 16:1. Then some questions about the tin trust.” For someone who claims his audience is too dumbed down to understand the basic economics Dr. Paul has explained in the debates, how should he expect his audience to understand the tin trust, which is but a small tiny element in a larger spectrum of the economic engine?
I bask in the refreshment that the Ron Paul supporters I’ve met and worked with to date are intelligent, motivated, and focused individuals. We choose not to regress to grade school tactics and use emotional attack strategies. We are especially smart enough to avoid using the “fruitcake” labels, as we realize this is signal of an emotional response in the absence of issues of vital concern to the American public.
However, Kevin’s theme of the article itself is him ranting on about his readers being childish, and how they need to grow up. Yes my friends, this being professed by someone that used the term “buttload” in a so called professional journalistic entry for CBS. Kevin, you ask your readers to grow up. You’re the first ten year old that’s asked me to do that. Would you like a lollipop now?
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