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**Allorneadesee** · 02-29-2012, 05:34 PM

Guess that is true....if you take the MSM position and consider Ron Paul the "13th floor" of the GOP and try to ignore him. But then again, Paul gets more independent voters than Huntsman.

We're going to have to address this eventually so might as well address it now. Ron Paul's campaign is suffering because its prospects at succeeding in the GOP primaries is doubtful with what has been taken on as the "Main Stream" GOP platform towards foreign policy, it has nothing to do with the notion of "experimentation in favor of solutions" in our government or anything of the sort (any solution not the status quo is an "experiment" by definition, the question is whether one likes the direction the "experimentation" takes). That rhetoric may work for the average MSNBC audience but the main stream Fox News audience has no real issue with Ron Paul's notion of smaller government. Winning in the primaries seems partially attributable as to how much you really hate Muslims, I know that's not going to go over well with some folks but its part of where the trends are, at least as far as Ron Paul is concerned. The 13th floor notion is mostly again the Fox News crowd, the networks that are actually a bit more "fair and balanced" actually do give him the time of day occasionally. (I'm not pairing Fox Business Network with FNC to make this distinction clear) Ron Paul's own campaign strategy has something in part to do with this, as he knows he's not going to get the red carpet welcome that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are going to get, and he's visibly growing tired of arguing with hawks.

02-29-2012, 05:34 PM	#16
Allorneadesee Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 402 Senior Member	Guess that is true....if you take the MSM position and consider Ron Paul the "13th floor" of the GOP and try to ignore him. But then again, Paul gets more independent voters than Huntsman. We're going to have to address this eventually so might as well address it now. Ron Paul's campaign is suffering because its prospects at succeeding in the GOP primaries is doubtful with what has been taken on as the "Main Stream" GOP platform towards foreign policy, it has nothing to do with the notion of "experimentation in favor of solutions" in our government or anything of the sort (any solution not the status quo is an "experiment" by definition, the question is whether one likes the direction the "experimentation" takes). That rhetoric may work for the average MSNBC audience but the main stream Fox News audience has no real issue with Ron Paul's notion of smaller government. Winning in the primaries seems partially attributable as to how much you really hate Muslims, I know that's not going to go over well with some folks but its part of where the trends are, at least as far as Ron Paul is concerned. The 13th floor notion is mostly again the Fox News crowd, the networks that are actually a bit more "fair and balanced" actually do give him the time of day occasionally. (I'm not pairing Fox Business Network with FNC to make this distinction clear) Ron Paul's own campaign strategy has something in part to do with this, as he knows he's not going to get the red carpet welcome that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are going to get, and he's visibly growing tired of arguing with hawks.
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