Saturday, August 04, 2007

Supporting Ron Paul

The Daily Dish: "...I am starting to change my mind a little bit, however. As it becomes more and more certain that the Republican candidate has just about zero chance of winning next year, there's a least a chance that some significant portion of the base may decide that if they are going to lose anyway, it might as well be with a candidate who they admire and respect. I think this a part of what powered Barry Goldwater to the Republican nomination in 1964. Everyone knew he was going to lose, including Goldwater, so it didn't really matter. Something like that might make Ron Paul semi-viable as well.

The odds of this scenario developing are pretty long, I admit. Republicans' capacity for self-delusion is strong and most of them probably won't allow themselves to consider the possibility of a Democratic victory no matter what the polls and experts say. They will delude themselves that they can pull off a Truman-like 1948 miracle right up until the last vote is counted. In my opinion, they would be better off writing off 2008 and thinking about how to make a comeback in the 2010 congressional elections and retake the White House in 2012. But that's just me."

1 comment:

the rube said...

the video was excellent. it had great production work from the wwe. i've been watching a lot of poor production stuff on you tube mainly randy savage.

i'll have to start looking in the bargain bin for some wwe stuff.

i'm reading wrestlecrap right now, it's quite funny.