Ron Paul just might steal the thunder from Rick Perry

[blogslut]

The MSNBC reporter "on the ground" in Ames told Alex Dewitt that the word is that Raul Paul is the one who will win the straw poll - that everyone he's spoken to, from the attendees to the people who work in the hotels, has told him the enthusiasm of for Congressman Paul.

My prediction: Ron Paul wins the Ames Straw poll and this will shock all the teevee pundits and the news will eclipse Goodhair's attempt to grab the spotlight today. The big headlines will read:

RON PAUL WINS IN IOWA

The little headlines will read:

Perry Announces Candidacy

[MineralMan]

1. Could happen. The Iowa straw poll is weird that way.

Pat Robertson even won it once. It's meaningless, really, although it does indicate just how fractured Republican politics are these days. That's a good thing, truly.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Also...

the Grifta from Wasilla has temporarily un-quit her sporadic bus tour starting today, if I'm not mistaken, which will draw even more attention from pRick Perry.

[emulatorloo]

3. Ron Paul most always wins these poll things.

[blogslut]

4. I know!

But the teevee talky talks haaate to admit that. You should have seen Alex Witt's jaw drop when the reporter told her that he thinks Ron Paul will win the Ames poll. I expect a lot of jaws hitting the floor if Ron Paul takes the Ames poll. It doesn't fit their narrative and they don't know what to do without their narrative.

[asjr]

7. I boycotted CNN for a while but I have

found MSNBC to be about as dumb. Alex Twit must have been the booby prize winner at MSNBC. I don't know where to go except DU to get information. I can't get Current TV. I long for the days of John Cameron Swayze, Edward R. Murrow, even David Brinkley. I realize these days are "modern" but how many lies do we have to hear to understand what is happening?

[blogslut]

10. My father was a newspaper man

I grew up knowing that it's all bullshit and has been forever. For me, watching the news and reading newspapers is more of a fun exercise in detecting the crap.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

19. "...a fun exercise in detecting the crap."

Yup.

[DCKit]

5. Paul said all the right things.

He just stole a bunch of teabagger votes from the rest. I appreciate what he said, and he said it passionately.

However, the REST of his agenda is dangerous to everyone. He's a nut-job who gets SOME things right, but he's not the total package.

[TBF]

8. Even the things he says that are positive like "no defense spending" -

are done for the wrong reasons. He only says that because he wants to limit spending on anything and drastically shrink the federal government. I don't think he's a bad guy, just grossly naive in wanting to turn back the clock 100 years.

[blogslut]

9. Don't get me wrong

I think Ron Paul is awful and his son is awfuller. Just the same his fans are zealous and a hell of a lot more genuinely "grass root" than the teababies. Paul*ards are a big wrench in the wingnut machine and I love that they consistently screw things up.

[DCKit]

11. I'd never get you wrong, slut.

Paul may have said all the right things for the wrong reason, but he's not doing THEM any favors, and I can honestly appreciate that.

If he spurs the Teahadii into actually thinking for themselves instead of simply listening (to Rush and Glenn), we all may have a better political climate from here on out.

We live in interesting times, fer sure.

[TBF]

6. Yes, Iowa may go for Paul, and then NH for Romney -

Perry will have to win SC.

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[sendero]

13. You know..

.. with Americans' disillusionment with the Federal government at all time highs, Ron Paul has a pretty compelling message. And Perry has been sounding more like a libertarian every day.

Problem is Perry's fundie yap is not going to play with majorities of Americans.

[End Of The Road]

14. Both are from Texas; both are BAD news

It's embarrassing.

[tritsofme]

15. No one pays attention to Ron Paul.

He is the candidate who would get the least amount of coverage for winning the straw poll. He frequently wins these types of events.

[blogslut]

17. OK

You may be right. But will you accept that if someone else wins the Ames Poll - that will get big headlines?

If Ron Paul wins the Ames poll, the pundits will downplay the poll and talk about how its meaningless - I can see that happening.

Here's the funny thing. Currently, the MSM is peeing their pants covering this 'meaningless' straw poll. Even MSNBC is pre-empting their weekend prison-pa-looza to cover Iowa. Granted, there are few mentions of how Ames is just a vote-buying scam with no actual meaning, in a primary election sense. From what I've observed - the expected outcome is that Romney or Bachmann will win the poll but that news will be dwarfed by the incredible awesomeness of Rick Perry announcing that he's throwing his gleaming white cowboy hat into the ring.

I'm just positing that Ron Paul will win the Ames poll and that will fuck everything up for the lazy, lazy press.

[tritsofme]

18. I don't know. It seems like the media is bound and determined

to be enamored by their new bright shiny object in Rick Perry, and I don't think anything is getting in the way of that today.

[Modern_Matthew]

16. It'd be interesting to watch him in a foreign policy debate with Obama. nt

[Odin2005]

20. Naw, the PTB are good at marginalizing Paul, they don't want the Liberturdians revolting.