#6 AFKAN | 2008-02-19 21:56
in reply to Pain:
you wrote, discussing Edgar Steele's comments:
<blockquote cite="">The Ron Paul campaign has massive popular support, and ordinary people are figuring out that something smells fishy.</blockquote>
in reply:
There's a larger issue Steele has not addressed, as yet; that's not "fishy," that's a damn fish fry.
<blockquote cite="">This partially explains Paul's fizzle, but he wonders why Paul has not used his millions to fight the Diebold.</blockquote>
in reply:
I think Someone took him aside and had The Talk.
Nixon had a variation of this, where senior statesmen of the Republican Party (including, if memory serves, Barry Goldwater) took him aside at the end of Watergate and told him it was over...
Each of us will see very few Talks in our life; these are the moments where the men who own the show send their hand-picked representative to show someone what their part in The Big Game REALLY amounts to.
Most of the time, we have been so trained that our eyes only see what we were TOLD is there, and dare not see what IS there, waiting in the shadows, hiding around the corner, waiting for us to cross some invisible line, like, say, Dr. Revilo Oliver did.
Paul was tolerated by the Party Elders; goos show for the "Conservatives," no threat to any one.
I think The Talk - usually given by someone of the status of James Baker - told him of a quiet, comfortable life that would continue to be his if he did what he was supposed to do, and unspoken sanctions were close to hand, if he decided to take all of this "democracy" stuff too seriously.
Thus, at the end of the day, Obama is THE most "Conservative" candidate.
Under Obama, nothing will change for the better, no trend lines will be even slowed, much less reversed...
Can't get more "Conservative" than no change at all...
That takes us to Yearning For Freedom's comments.
Yearning For Freedom wrote:
<blockquote cite="">Let's say Dr. Paul really got 5% in some states instead of 4%? So what? My guess is that a candidate should be popular enough so that fraud in favor or against him or her will balance out. </blockquote>
in reply:
Paul had something going that was much more substantial than a mere 4 or 5% of the vote.
Paul had built an organization that was fluid, beyond the control of Federal campaign funds, and could have been the nucleus of a coalition - a Party - that would have realized that every single one of its issues ultimately leads to a Positive Theory of Race.
Paul's formless national network could have been the ideal vehicle for a political party that would represent White interests, using the terms of "Faith, Family, and the Constitution."
I suspect this was the deeper fear of the owners of American politics, who decided to turn the lights out on this in a hurry.
My nephews still have not heard back from the local Ron Paul Meet-Up people, and, as I have just explained to them, they won't hear from them.
As I also explained to them, from now on, it's up to them...