The Real Winner Tonight Is…
November 3, 2009 – 8:25 pmThe GOP is rolling up big victory margins in the NJ and VA Governor’s races, and NY CD-23 may well be in the hands of the Conservative Party candidate, Doug Hoffman, by the time you read this. The larger picture is that the protests that are sweeping America – Tea Parties, 9/12 rallies and the like – are part of a very broad movement that is genuine, grass-roots, and which has only one sincere patron in Washington, D.C. That individual is Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), and the article below sums up how, regardless of
whether or not a particular candidate identifies with him, it is Paul’s ideas that are winning tonight.
From www.thehill.com ”Pundit’s Blog“
The winner of the 2009 elections is: Ron Paul!
Forget the spin and the slop. The real winner of the 2009 elections is the public official and candidate who has championed the core insurgency driving the election. It is Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul.
Paul embodies the anti-Washington, anti-tax, anti-big government, anti-financial insiderism viewpoints that are galvanizing large numbers of activists and voters. It is not a majority, but a majority has never been Ron Paul’s goal. Paul is a conviction politician, an idea man, an advocate and a change agent.
The Democratic spin is that the Republicans have moved much too far to the right. This is true in a sense. But remember, Democratic smarties said the same thing before Ronald Reagan was elected and before Newt and Republicans won in 1994.
I agree with some things Paul says, and disagree with others, but the truth of the matter, politically, is that his agenda has moved center stage and his people are highly motivated and this is a serious movement that is underestimated and misunderstood by Washington insiders.
What Democrats need to do is forget the PR and forget the spin and do what they were elected to do in 2006 and 2008. They should fight for a progressive populist agenda that takes on the powerful interests that have given us this Gilded Age, interests that a majority of Americans from the political left and independent center are both against.
But for now, for today, my take is forget the smarties and forget the smoothies, because the real winner of the 2009 elections is the gentleman from Texas, Mr. Ron Paul.
4 Responses to “The Real Winner Tonight Is…”
I think that is quite a reach personally. I admire much of Paul’s agenda but his “followers” are only a small segment of the Freedom movement going on. Our SoCal Tax revolt friends are Pauline nor are such as our best Global-con Sally.
I think the people are speaking but I don’t see this as any type of “Ron Paul win”.
ssgconway reply on November 4th, 2009 8:10 pm:
I took the author (a left-leaning individual, I believe) to mean that Ron Paul was the only DC politician connected to any significant part of the anti-DC anger bioling over out there. (I’d add that Sarah Palin remains viable, but she isn’t a DC pol to begin with.) What RP started is certainly not the largest contingent of the multi-faced revolt against the Establishment, but it is broadly representative of the sentiments expressed, and no one else in DC can lay legitimate claim to speak for it – in whole or part.
By Nik on Nov 4, 2009
“True dat” as my esteemed progeny would say
ssgconway reply on November 14th, 2009 9:06 pm:
Did you see where the recounting of vote totals erroneously reported, when added to absentee ballots, has narrowed Owens’ lead considerably? Hoffman may well be the winner in NY-23 after all.
By Nik on Nov 5, 2009