Ron Paul Wins! (So who appears on Meet the Press?)
Ron Paul Wins! (So who appears on Meet the Press?)
February 23, 2010
Ron Paul wins! (So who appears on Meet the Press?)
By Doug Wead
Texas Congressman Ron Paul handily won last Saturday’s CPAC presidential straw poll in Washington, D.C. It was an event that former Governor Mitt Romney had dominated in years past, but this time Romney wasn’t even close and neither was Palin, Huckabee or Gingrich.
So who did NBC invite onto Sunday’s Meet to Press to talk about it all? Answer? Minnesota Governor, Tim Pawlenty, who came in fourth place and won 6% of the votes. Another typical day for the Rodney Dangerfield of American public life.
Meanwhile, inside the beltway commentators, who in previous years touted a CPAC win as an important initiation rite for any future GOP nominee, were quick to explain to us dummies that the Ron Paul victory was unimportant. The Washington Post’s favorite blogger warned us to “be careful.” We were told “not to read too much — or much at all — into these results.”
During live coverage of the CPAC event Fox News commentators were endlessly apologetic, explaining how Ron Paul accidently won the vote, apparently embarrassed that they were covering an event where he would triumph.
But no matter how deep the denial of the American media you can be sure that Ron Paul’s victory sent shock waves through the rest of the American establishment. While it is unlikely that anyone at the Federal Reserve has actually started the process of shredding documents the idea has surely crossed some minds. And young staffers at the Justice Department may have asked, “Can the government seize our e-mails? Hold on a minute, we are the government.” Some fat billionaire bankers on Wall Street had chest pains Saturday night. Others wondered aloud if they shouldn’t petition the Obama administration for another bailout while there is still time. (To save the country, of course.)
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