Noting what the Washington Post reports today:
In a muddled field, Paul could win the Iowa caucuses. While other candidates have been hesitant to commit to the state or have had trouble sustaining their initial bursts of support, Paul has been methodically building an organization and a growing corps of followers.
Over the past week, he has spent more than $600,000 on attack ads that are cutting into support for a fellow front-runner, former House speaker Newt Gingrich (Ga.). And Paul has built an organization that will allow him to remain in the race well beyond the early-voting states and amass convention delegates.
Perhaps most fearsome to Republican leaders is Paul’s refusal to rule out a third-party presidential bid that would steal votes from the Republican nominee and make President Obama’s path to reelection considerably easier…
Here in Colorado, we’ve heard that our local GOP brass is increasingly worried about a Ron Paul insurgency “ruining” the caucuses, and denying frontrunner Mitt Romney a much-needed show of support in our state. Romney won the Colorado caucuses in 2008 and has by far the best field organization on the ground, but Paul is working hard on organizing his key constituencies–and is really the only other GOP presidential candidate organizing here.
Bottom line: Paul can’t win, but in this messy, weak field, he could do some real damage.
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(and I have to say that Sirota was much easier to listen to today than most days)…
Gary Johnson, who has been locked out of the GOP presidential debate cycle, has decided to seek the nomination from the Libertarian Party instead. So if Ron Paul bolts for a third-party nomination (which would almost certainly be the Libertarian Party), he’ll find Johnson already there contesting it.
Is Ron Paul truly that out of step with his party?
Is it his insane fiscal/monetary theories?
His tortured and self-serving “constitutional” theories?
His undeniable and long-held racist and bigoted outlook towards African-Americans?
His willingness to rap about “freedom” while holding virulently misogynistic views about reproductive freedom?
His opposition to same sex equality?
His opposition to the Voting Rights Act?
Climate change denial?
Anti-Social Security policies?
John Bircher paranoia….
Ron Paul definitely isn’t representative of the modern Republican Party!
And he isn’t a fan of the drug war and excessive incarceration.
So of course Pols build him up.
Rinse, repeat.
He’s even at the top of at least one Iowa poll.
The Dead Guvs aren’t doing anything other than reporting.
I say potahto — Republican presidential field.
So, just what is it that distnguishes Paul from the rest of the race baiters you all are running this cycle?
Doesn’t kiss the right rings in the GOP brass. He’s certainly no crazier than Herman Cain was, or Michele Bachmann is.
On that description alone, no wonder you Repubs are having so much trouble picking anyoge out of the lineup.
No, he’s just the kindly, folksy old man on the corner who’d secretly poison all the neighborhood dogs.
If Dan Maes could win the primary here then pretty much any of the candidates has a non-zero chance of winning. And Paul is in better shape than most.
Maybe Romney gets it. But I think there’s a really good chance he doesn’t. There’s a lot of voters out there who clearly are trying to figure out who their anyone but Romney vote is going to. But it will go to someone else.