Neil Cavuto fawns over Ron...

I love your post.

This puts the Ron Paul campaign in a very interesting perspective. I think Ron Paul is a great influence on lots of us. Aren't we all finding ourselves more respectful of others, and elevating the political dialog and process in the meantime? Maybe this really is a love revolution and wouldn't it be great if we could just accomplish our goal with love, focused dedication, hard work, zeal, persistence and dedication without there ever a shot being fired? Now that's my kind of revolution.

In watching him on so many videos I just love his mastery of understatement. That can be so powerful.

I've been saying the same thing for a long time, Thundercloud, trying to get the grassroots aware of this.

The grassroots portion of this campaign is an exercise in libertarian free market principles unlike anything the political arena has ever before had to factor. The components of the political arena such as politicians and the media are so programmed in price-fix protectionist economics that processing the superiority of true supply and demand economics causes their brain Windows to crash. They pay attention to the sponsors. They pay attention to the polls. They pay attention to official fundraising figures. But do you think they've even considered for a moment that the grassroots and the meet-up's collectively have cash-on-hand and surpluses of campaign merchandise probably totaling more than the official campaign has rasied altogether, not to mention a priceless campaign communication network?

The grassroots does'nt give much consideration into it either. We just know we each do our thing, and it adds up over time, and it helps. We look at ronpaulgraphs (another priceless tool donated by the grassroots) and see that the little things we do everyday is working. Rarely do we wonder to ourselves, why so many Google employees have donated money to the campaign, or why Google never screws with us online? Likewise the media never wonders it either.

It might have something to do with all the free advertising we've provided to Google. Perhaps all those "Google Ron Paul" billboard size signs lining America coast to coast.

Last week a protest of program sponsors was organized over some controversial implications made by a popular pundit. It had a little influence. It probably had more influence than what we know. No doubt about it, we're good at fighting an uphill battle with the wind in our faces. We can really bring the hammer down on people or institutions that threaten all our hard work. We possess that power. But we also possess the power to reward those that acknowledge our hard work. For example we could encourage our folks to put a GQ banner ad on their websites, blogs, group forums etc. or maybe DailyPaul could select a weekly "Media Recognition" award for the best Ron Paul coverage and supply the winner's banner ad code so everyone can copy and paste it along to their websites, and social networks. A weeks worth of free advertising on thousands of locations on the internet is honey as sweet as money to their ratings. I think we could do better with the wind at our back, and I can only hope this campaign has'nt become so acustomed to fighting against the wind that we are incapable, now that we are on standier ground, to persuade the wind to blow in our favor.