Thursday, March 06, 2008
The mouse that roared: Why Ron Paul won the election by Doug Wead
However, as Doug Wead points out, they may have a nominee, but the
real winner has been Ron Paul.
The reason is simple. The effects of Ron Paul's message will reshape
conservative thinking for generations to come.
In his bid for the presidency, according to Wead, Ron Paul made a
classic political mistake. "He told the truth."
"In debate after debate he pointed at his party, his president, his
fellow contenders for the GOP nomination, shouting aloud like the
little boy in the proverbial story, "they have no clothes" and lo and
behold, we looked and they didn't. They were all naked."
"Ron Paul showed us, that we have lost our way. We are no longer
conservatives. We are fighting for power not for principles. We have
become corrupted by the process and the only way back is to retrace
our steps and find all the things we discarded along the way."
Wead wrote that Barry Goldwater lighted a similar fire with his
Conscience of a Conservative. "Its truth and arguments were so obvious
and so honest that one laughed aloud while reading it. But Goldwater,
himself, was doomed to political defeat. And Ron Paul had no chance to
win this election either. One could see that when he first opened his
mouth."
Goldwater's revolution produced Ronald Reagan and a change in
Republican values. Ron Paul's revolution will likely do the same.
"John McCain and his poorly chosen words, of staying in Iraq a hundred
years, have almost guaranteed that he will be the answer to the trivia
question, who was the Republican candidate who lost to the ticket that
claimed the first woman and black for the presidency? Another question
may very well be, "What other candidate ran that year and launched the
movement that has dominated national politics for the last generation?"
"And the answer will be Ron Paul."
Go to http://dougwead.wordpress.com/ to see the complete article by Doug Wead.
Doug Wead is a presidential historian and New York Times bestselling
author. He co-founded Mercy Corps in 1979 and served as special
assistant to the president in the Bush, Senior White House. Recent
books include All the Presidents' Children and The Raising of a
President. He is the editor of www.whitehouseweddings.com
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