Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Power To The People

What is one of the most common claims we hear laid at liberals by conservatives, historically?  That the news media silences major conservative news so that people won’t know whatever earthshaking information the liberals don’t want the people to know about.

But something fascinating is happening today.

In light of Ron Paul’s huge $4.2 million haul yesterday, where are we likely to read or hear about this amazing news?  I’m seeing it in the New York Times, ABC News, the LA Times… you know… common liberal news sources.  In the middle of the fundraising last night, you could find the stories on the front page tickers of the websites of Yahoo, ABC News, and CNN.

But this morning, what are we hearing from the conservative talk show hosts?  Nothing.  Crickets.  There might be some mention of the news pretty quickly, but the rest of the discussion is all about Giuliani and Romney.

The silence from the conservatives about what grassroots supporters of Ron Paul have done yesterday for his campaign is deafening.

Isn’t this behavior, dismissing major news like this, of the sort that conservatives usually accuse the liberals?

What this is revealing is that for all the kinds of “power to the people” talk that conservatives like to parrot, we’re finding they’re every bit as pro-establishment, pro-big government, anti-individual freedom as the other side of the single ruling party.

I’m suspecting that ideas like “power to the people” really have more to do with “power to the elite people” than conservatives want to admit.  Else, why is there such huge silence regarding earth-shattering news as we received yesterday about Ron Paul’s campaign?

Not surprising, just saddening that we find out again that more “conservatives” than we would like to admit are simply 3-monkey Republicans.

But the best part is going to be the stammering, dribbling and incoherent comments made by such “conservatives” if the Ron Paul campaign continues to go the direction that it has been.  They have no category for what he’s been accomplishing.  They can’t imagine that people of all political stripes would get behind this guy.

But they are.

It’s estimated that yesterday’s haul for the Ron Paul campaign was done, essentially, by about 40,000 people offering about $100 each.  No big givers here, just lots and lots of people who have figured out that Paul is the only one talking about the things that really positively affect freedom and prosperity in America.

Even a major online betting website has moved Ron Paul’s odds at becoming president from 200-to-1 in May this year to 4-to-1 just recently.

Um, 4-to-1!  Hello?!  When was the last time you saw Vegas be terribly far off on determining odds?  Right.

So, enjoy this ride, all you freedom lovers.  And if you want to return freedom to America, don’t stop supporting Paul.  He’s the only pro-constitution, pro-small-government, pro-ending-the-war, pro-individual-freedom candidate of BOTH sides of the aisle.

And certainly enjoy the contortions of the conservative elite as they do everything possible to dismiss Paul’s campaign.  It doesn’t get better than this.