Ron Pauls offbeat campaign generates high enthusiasm, low poll numbers

[proud2BlibKansan]

By SCOTT CANON
The Kansas City Star

“Google Ron Paul.”

That message plastered across roadside signs and bumper stickers summarizes the up-from- the-bottom, Facebook-friendly, meetup.com-driven, blimp-launching campaign of the anti-war Texan crashing the Republican Party presidential race.

The message is clear and subtle: Don’t wait for the mainstream media or the backroom pols to introduce you; look the guy up yourself.

Rep. Ron Paul and his way-outside-the-box politics are the underground sensation of the early White House campaign season. He’s a candidate almost made more attractive by his pitiful poll numbers. The old guy is fresh, reviving small “l” libertarian ideas in a 21st-century world populated by significant numbers who like their politics do-it-yourself.

The man at the end of the Google rainbow is an engaging 72-year-old congressman who can be found on YouTube projecting the enthusiasm and intensity of a far younger candidate. He’s more facts and figures than you’ll find with Mitt Romney or Barack Obama and a good deal livelier than Hillary Clinton or Fred Thompson.

more . . . http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/404421.html

[gateley]

1. I wonder if he's not "polling" higher because they're excluding him from the polls?

I've read on here when a Kucinich supporter was polled, the pollster tried to get the DUer to choose one of The Three, and wouldn't even take a vote for Dennis.

Since Paul got that whopping $4 million, it's obvious has SOME supporters -- and I wonder if the polls aren't an accurate reflection of the REALITY.

:shrug:

[SweetThingy]

3. or maybe because he is a certifiable loon!

He's a republican, enough said!

[gateley]

11. That doesn't acknowledge that he has supporters who coughed up a wad of

dough -- they're somewhere and maybe not just getting polled?

[SweetThingy]

14. I'm sure there are vested interests in his particular brand of republican loonyness

Just because he gets money, doesn't mean he has lots of supporters, it just means he has a few rich supporters.

[proud2BlibKansan]

5. I think his supporters can just yell louder than most of us

[gateley]

10. But they coughed up BIG BUCKS for him -- which indicates there are more

of them than we think.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. In my area of NW Arkansas

the first political signs I saw were homemade Ron Paul signs stuck up at busy intersections in town. Now I'm seeing Ron Paul professional done bumper stickers. His message resonates with the many Libertarians who live around here.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. We have a ton of them here too

[L. Coyote]

4. They are a model of Internet use and organization online.

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. Oh I agree

I don't support Dr Paul but I am impressed with his campaign.

[Robb]

8. Dr.?

Can he write me a prescription? :D

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. He's an obstetrician

Are you pregnant? :)

[Robb]

15. Touche! nt

[whistle]

12. Ron Paul bulletin posters are on walls, trees, light poles and in people's from lawns

...throughout Orlando FL. I have not seen any democratic signs anywhere in Orlando. It is a little scary and I'm no longer certain of the sanity of my community

[pinto]

13. Eh. There's some kernels of fact and his policy ideas in this spin piece:

This is not Paul’s first run for president. In 1988 he ran on the Libertarian ticket and finished a distant third with less than 0.5 percent of the national vote. If by some miracle he had won, this would be a much different country.

Given his way, Paul would eliminate the CIA, Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Education, the Internal Revenue Service, drug laws, bans on gay marriage, the war in Iraq, the Patriot Act, congressional gold medals, Hurricane Katrina relief, farm subsidies and U.S. membership in the United Nations and NATO.

He'll garner a few Republican/Libertarian delegates, I guess. Go figure.

[mdmc]

16. kick for the cream of the GOP crop

:kick: