Now, This is Real Support for Ron Paul

Latest Harris National Poll has Paul at 4%

4% of the 3304 people polled said the would 'consider voting for' Ron Paul.  That's a significant number.  The 5% threshold is a big step up.  Name recognition is still Dr. Paul's biggest barrier to a further rise in popularity, no matter how much good press he's gotten recently that's only just gotten him onto the playing field, as it were.  A position in the starting lineup is still a little ways off.  That's why his performance in the debate last week (less time there than on The Daily Show, sadly) and Comedy Central's two big 'news' shows were so very important for him to do well on.  These were opportunities to humanize and promote such basic concepts as respect for life and basic human decency and humility, which I think he did admirably.

Sadly, the numbers from the "First Choice for President" leave him at just 2%, which is really just statistical noise, but it's it's a number with less noise and more signal than he had the previous two months.  For him to truly have a shot at pulling off a peaceful coup d'etat he'll have to double his numbers in this category by no later than August, I would think.

Personally, I think he's capable of it.  The appearance on the Colbert Report last night saw a spike in his Facebook and MySpace numbers, nearly 8000 and 30,500 repsectively, from yesterday alone.  I watch those numbers daily and note that nearly 1000 people have joined him since yesterday.  That's 1000 more people who have taken the red pill, jacked out of The Matrix and aare simply saying, "No,"  to more welfare/warfare, slavery, spying, paranoia and fear.

You know, if this keeps up, I might begin to smile at the prospects for my daughter's future.

Ta,

p.s. Thanks to the LRC Blog for the link.

Ron

Comments

[Diane MacRae]

Tom, good to see you back. I didn't know you were blogging again until I saw you scolding Tom Knapp.

But, if any of you who actually read this are wondering why I've re-joined the general public it's because of one man.

Ron Paul.

Me, too. I'm not sure if I'll start blogging again, but I couldn't resist putting up some Ron Paul posts.

Best,

tex

[Tom L]

Tex,

Good to hear from you man. I checked in on UnfairWitness when I re-vamped this site a couple of weeks ago to my dismay.

Knapp needed to be put down for that reactionary bit of holier-than-thou crap. I'm hoping I can keep the energy up. Frankly that's what Trevor's for, he's got enough for 10 of us. Between SR, this, the AOL gig and my WoW addiction (not to mention ridiculous schedule) I'm hoping I can at least produce something of quality every once in a while

I'm cautiously excited for Dr. Paul's campaign. Do I think he's perfect? No. Do I think he's right enough about the really friggin big issues (like monetary policy) to obviate the things I disagree with him on? Absolutely.

That's the sum and substance of it and the libertarians who are more interested in ideological purity than seeing an opportunity for great things and capitalizing on it drive me to drink more than I enjoy.

Ron Paul has already done more to legitimize the concepts of liberty by standing up and speaking truth to power than Steve Kubby, Mike Badnarik or the rest of them ever will, not that they shouldn't be doing their thing, but for Knapp to do a drive-by smear as a means of trying to undermine that is self-defeating.

Ta,