(ThyBlackMan.com) Let me see if I understand this. The person who reads the news on TV is called a “commentator?” A COMMENTator? Implicit in their very designation is the expectation that they are providing editorial opinion. If in nothing else, at least in the title that these reporters carry, the media is being truthful. . .
The Republican challenger to the president, we are told, will be decided in a contest between a fellow forced from Congress for corruption, turned multi-million dollar lobbyist and now running as a Washington outsider against a man legendary for shifting positions in perfect synch with the political winds and whom most Republicans despise.
And oh yes, the media will concede, there is also the candidate with the best organized campaign and the most devoted followers, and who offers the 
clearest alternative to Obama, has never wavered in his views and who is consistently ranked in the top tier in all the polls. But, we are told, don’t pay him any mind. His economic policies are wacky and completely out of synch with reality.
Why then, one might ask, does he have such support and loyalty? And how can we be sure that his ideas are really off base, if he is being discounted out of hand without the chance for the people to hear him?
And what about the fact that Republicans tout themselves as the Christian, family values party while one of the two said to be top contenders is twice divorced, thrice married, and is the man who led the campaign to impeach Clinton for being unfaithful while he was being unfaithful too? And also the other said to be top contender doesn’t belong to a traditional Christian Church. Meanwhile, the third, forgotten candidate doesn’t carry any of this baggage.
Ron Paul has a good chance of coming in second or even first in the Iowa Caucuses, given that these three hour plus marathons will take place in the dead of winter in one of the coldest states, and his supporters will definitely turn out under any weather conditions and stay until the bitter end, no matter how long that takes them.
At that point the obvious will happen. Ron Paul will burst full blown upon the scene. And when he gets his long overdue hearing in the public sphere, he’s likely to further shore up his support. Will he get the nomination? No one knows. None can see the future. But all can see that there is a concerted effort in the media to try and ignore him.
What would happen if he were to get the nomination? Who knows if he would win? But America would. We would be given a genuine choice between the established mainstream position, on nearly everything, and that of a truly oppositional point of view. At last, we, the people, would get to choose.
Philosophers have long wondered what would happen if an irresistible force met an immovable object. Looks like we are about to find out. Ron Paul is an irresistible force, and the establishment is implacable in its opposition to him.
I suspect that, if he were to get the nod, it would hit DC like an earthquake. The members of both parties would scramble to make changes in everything they do, and everything they stand for, in a frantic attempt to blunt the policy differences between Ron Paul and Barack Obama. And it would be up to us to decide if these changes were real or merely cosmetic. One thing’s for sure. There’ll be hell to pay if, and when, Mr. Smith, I mean Dr. Ron Paul, comes to Washington!
Staff Writer; Arthur Lewin
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