Ron Paul – now
there’s a name I’ll bet you haven’t heard in a while.
Last November, I decided to take a look at Ron Paul’s platform and post the results in an editorial. I titled it
“Ron Paul Will Never Be President.” The result? A massive flaming campaign was directed at the editorial. It received wave after wave of bashes and angry comments from delusional Paulites. “He’s America’s only hope,” they said. They also said that because I disagree with Ron Paul, I must hate freedom and love George Bush. You have to love the hypocrisy.
Nonetheless, after re-reading some of the comments in the above linked editorial, I thought that it was high time to rub my prediction in peoples’ faces. Not only will Ron Paul not be president, but he made a piss-poor showing. The millions of fanatics who spammed websites and message boards, the people who wasted hours inflating poll statistics, and the people who swore up and down that they would register Republican to vote for Ron Paul in the primaries were totally and utterly full of shit.
I’ll even offer another little tidbit: Ron Paul failed not because he was poorly treated by the media, or because he wasn’t given a fair shake during debates (though both those statements are true). He failed because his policies come off as batshit insane. Maybe if he didn’t make outlandish promises, like abolishing the Federal Reserve or the CIA, he may have gotten somewhere. The thing is, people hear shit like that and immediately write him off as a babbling loon.
One cannot suggest that such radical changes be implemented. People hate change. In order to change the system to the extent that Ron Paul suggested, those changes would have to be implemented gradually, over a long period of time. That, or the changes would have to have remarkable advantages over the current system. Ol’ Ronnie should have just kept his mouth shut about his more radical plans – maybe then he’d have had a fighting chance.
So, like the dancing baby, Chuck Norris and Bert Is Evil, Ron Paul has had his 15 minutes of internet fame. He can now safely be locked away in the Vault of Forgotten Internet Fads forever.
