{"id":2427,"date":"2007-07-11T14:17:44","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T21:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/11\/new-conventional-unconventional-wisdom-on-ron-paul\/"},"modified":"2007-07-11T14:17:44","modified_gmt":"2007-07-11T21:17:44","slug":"new-conventional-unconventional-wisdom-on-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2007\/07\/11\/new-conventional-unconventional-wisdom-on-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"new conventional unconventional wisdom on Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"

I note that the idea that Ron Paul might pull of a shocker in New Hampshire and\/or Iowa is becoming one of those conventional unconventional wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe Scarborough has come out in saying “He is going to shock a lot of people in New Hampshire” — a bold enough prediction, and thus this conventional unconventional wisdom has wormed its way into establishment types (Cable mcnews?).\u00c2\u00a0 I will keep half an eye open to see if this bit of conventional unconventional wisdom floats forward from here.
\nIt’s a prediction for people who want to be cleverer than thou, and it will either make the prognosticator of such an idea come across as absolutely brilliant, or will lead them to be complete dunderheads in a “What the Heck were they thinking” way.\u00c2\u00a0 You will note, if you go back to “You Read it Here Third”, that I set myself up to be truly brilliant in the case of such a thing happening, with the “no big deal” if he stumbles to that small percentage point slumber.<\/p>\n

I do not know what these things will get him.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps he will be able to ride his way to the end of the debate season (if those in charge of the debates can get back to stomaching the idea of including him) as did some moderately impressive third place showing for Alan Keyes allowed him in 2000.<\/p>\n

In the realm of the vaunted National Journal rankings<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0 — I think I would insert Paul as #5 — behind the fledgling John McCain, who — embarrassingly enough has raised less money than Paul and embarrassingly enough has a much higher burn rate– can still trout out the line on where Kerry and Clinton were at this point in the campaign, roughly stumbling just as he is.\u00c2\u00a0 But even that is a tough call.\u00c2\u00a0 As for the figures National Journal has stuck between the “Rudy McRomnpson” beast and our erstwhile buddy Ron Paul — the knock on Ron Paul, particularly from National Journal, is that his support is “Internet Support”.\u00c2\u00a0 I suppose maybe and perhaps, but granted that, but that’s more than can be said for those four others.<\/p>\n

………………..<\/p>\n

One more note to Ron Paul supporters: I hate to say this, but as I see still floating out in cyberspace the mean-spirited list comparing Paul supporters to Larouche supporters, and I see the news about Ron Paul’s fund-raising prowess: in the 2004 race at a comparative time, Lyndon Larouche either lead the field or was second — right behind Dean — I do not quite remember and will have to look it up.\u00c2\u00a0 (It’s what you get when all of your supporters send you the $2000 maximum, dedicated to you as a God-like being.)\u00c2\u00a0 It’s an interesting enough dynamic, and probably only worthy of the loosest of loose parallels — dedication in terms of ultimately a minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I note that the idea that Ron Paul might pull of a shocker in New Hampshire and\/or Iowa is becoming one of those conventional unconventional wisdom.\u00c2\u00a0 Joe Scarborough has come out in saying “He is going to shock a lot of people in New Hampshire” — a bold enough prediction, and thus this conventional unconventional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ron-paul","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}