The Consequences Of Fantasy
Allegedly Republican U.S. Representative Ron Paul has vacuumed up millions of dollars in contributions to his wacky, windmill-tilting, all-around malodorous gadflying presidential campaign, but meanwhile, back in his Texas district, he’s got a GOP challenger, and that challenger is leaving the elderly bizarro in the fundraising dust (via Newsmax):
Ron Paul has received massive financial support in his run for the presidency, but he’s also seeking re-election in his congressional district — and trailing his opponent in campaign financing.
As of December 31, Chris Peden, a city councilman in Friendswood, Texas, who is challenging Paul for the GOP nomination, had raised twice as much money as Paul for the congressional race.
Paul cannot use funds raised by his presidential campaign in his run for re-election to Congress.
Paul “has not represented this district for some time, in my opinion, as well as it deserves to be represented,” said Peden. “And I think this district has realized that with his campaign for president,” constituents are “looking for a change in leadership.”
I do not, of course, live in RP’s district, so I can’t say firsthand that he is, or has ever been, a, um, representative Representative. But I find it more than a little hard to believe that his constituents really want to continue to be fronted by a kooky hybrid of Michael Moore, Robert Taft, and George Lincoln Rockwell. Maybe they’ve just tired of being embarrassed on a daily basis. Or perhaps they don’t want all those “Ronulans” moving in down the block. That’s what the money would appear to indicate.
But Ron Paul’s pointless, aggravating self-insertion into what’s supposed to be a serious process of determining national leadership costing him his congressional seat? That’s priceless.
He won’t starve, though; there’s bound to be a cable news commentator slot opened up for him someplace.
Keith Olbermann could use a “bipartisan” sidekick.
UPDATE: The man who threw a conniption fit the one time he was excluded from a GOP presidential debate is refusing to debate his own U.S. House challenger? Does it get any more entertaining than this?
February 22nd, 2008 at 12:53 pm
“This is where the best conservative thinkers, writers, pundits…..” ???
Hmmm, I think I will look elsewhere for that.
Ron Paul starts talking about the Constitution, the Federal Reserve swindle, and closing the floodgates of deficit spending shortly before we go bankrupt, and the author thinks this is “kooky”?
The author never bothers to take issue with Ron Paul’s positions, I noticed. He seems to feel it is enough to just use the ad hominem, ad nauseum style of cheap rhetoric and sophistry. A waste of good cyberspace.
February 22nd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
If Ron Paul leaves the presidential race, wouldn’t any money left after paying his campaign’s debts become his personal property which he could then spend any way he desired, such as for his Congressional campaign?
Olbermann and Paul, a pair of nuts.
February 23rd, 2008 at 8:39 am
Ron Paul considers the Constitution to be a death wish. Also a maguffin for all his other wacko, anti-war, paleoparanoid nuttery. C’mon, Cliff, sounding the clarion call about the Federal Reserve is first cousin to all that Trilateral Commission/Bildeberger/international Jewish conspiracy BS that it took conservatism decades to fully distance itself from. It’s not-so-thinly veiled anti-semitism, which goes a long way for why RP allowed neoNazi writings to find their way into his constituent newsletters.
Ron Paul was once the Libertarian candidate for president. That’s where he should have stayed, instead of cluttering up the GOP presidential race as if he were a serious candidate. He was the GOP’s Dennis Kucinich. He never should have been allowed on a single stage for single debate. And your defense of him evinces just how diseased your ideological discernment abilities really are.
February 23rd, 2008 at 12:21 pm
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