Quote of the day

Gotta love this one:

“I have no idea what exactly spoiler means,” Paul said recently while in New Hampshire. “If you’re a participant and you have an influence and you win or come close and you influence the debate, I think that’s pretty important. So I don’t put a negative term on that as spoiling anything. Spoiling their fun? Maybe they need a little spoiling.”

Frankly, I detect a little desperation in the tone of the Washington Post's coverage.  In Paul's previous two runs for the Presidency, what little coverage the news corporations deigned to give him invariably started off something like "Ron Paul, who has no chance of winning the Republican nomination..."  Check out the lead this time, though: "Ron Paul, antagonist of the Federal Reserve and advocate for the gold standard, probably won’t capture the Republican presidential nomination." 

Now the press has to go from marginalizing him ("he's not a viable candidate") to chastizing him ("he's just going to be a spoiler").  So much for being unable to garner votes, then!

Oh, and his campaign raised about $5 million during the quarter that ended September 30. 

Bottom line: don't judge the man or his positions by what the press has to say about him.  Carefully consider them yourself, then decide if you, too, can support the only presidential candidate this year who consistently uses the Constitution to guide his governing principles.