Jun 22

Written by: Steve Erbach
Sunday, June 22, 2008 6:30 PM

I followed a link posted by one of the more colorful members of our local Ron Paul for President group. The link led to a blog entry by "Nathanael" titled "Ron 'The Poseur' Paul". Read it if you like. I lost interest before the end, especially when he brought up the following "gross failures" of the Paul campaign:

It is time to face the gross failures of his campaign. It is fact and not fiction that Ron Paul...

• Shirked his duty to the American people and violated his oath of office by not pursuing criminal indictments against the war criminal and traitor GWBush.
• Did nothing to pursue the reality of McCain being disqualified under the Constitution to be president.
• Publicly denied the obvious, root cause and core reality of America's neo-con attempt at global hegemony, that 911 is provably an inside job or false flag used to mind warp the American People into supporting baseless global war.

So I wrote a response and posted it in the Ron Paul e-mail list:

Hmmm.  This outburst by "Nathanel" is, in my humble yet deadly accurate opinion, typical of someone crying because his dolly was taken away from him.  In more adult terms, it is a clearly consistent reaction by someone who invested way too much faith in a "leader".
 
Ask yourself: why are there so few people left in the group?  Isn't it because they've mostly sunk back into apathy after having been given a jolt in the I-need-a-leader-I-can-follow-willingly part of their brains?
 
The clues were right there in front of us the whole time. How many times did Dr. Paul say, in effect, "It isn't me, it's the message"?  Even that nifty ad produced by our friend, Chris Rye, of the American Liberty Coalition PAC, contained the key phrase of Dr. Paul's campaign: "Spread the message!"  He didn't expect to win.  He was continually overwhelmed by the outpouring of support via the Internet and said as much.  He acknowledged that he wasn't an inspiring speaker.  It wasn't the speaker, it was the message, etc..
 
Well, a message can't become President of the United States.  No matter how much one yearns for something to happen, it's the voters' perceptions and inclinations and boredom that decide.
 
And now, those that dumped their hearts and souls into Dr. Paul's campaign have to pick up their toys and go home...and they're not very happy about it.  Well, boo hoo!
 
I was ecstatic that the message got as much play as it did...far more than when Harry Browne ran for President in '00.  Dr. Paul stayed in the game, too, knowing that it wasn't going to turn his way.  So he finally suspended his campaign: who can blame him?  Does he owe it to "Nathanel" to keep hopping from state to state endlessly even though the nomination is sewn up?  He's appearing in Minneapolis during the Republican convention.  Isn't that enough?
 
We get way too caught up with the idea that if only the "right" people get elected then everything will be better.  Dig deeply now:  How many of you really believe that?  Take hold of that slippery, altruistic feeling and haul it back down to earth and examine it, dissect it.

You don't have to get all apathetic again that "things will never change".  Why should human nature change?  Why should the nature of politics change just because we don't happen to like it the way it is?
 
I would say to "Nathanael" to get his head out of his butt and stop acting like a child.

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