{"id":12503,"date":"2011-12-10T12:20:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2011-12-10T12:21:41","modified_gmt":"2011-12-10T16:21:41","slug":"nick-gillespie-five-myths-about-ron-paul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/12\/10\/nick-gillespie-five-myths-about-ron-paul\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Gillespie: Five myths about Ron Paul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/five-myths-about-ron-paul\/2011\/12\/07\/gIQAu3vOiO_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Gillespie<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s <em>Washington Post<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Ron Paul is the Rodney Dangerfield of Republican presidential candidates. The 12-term Texas congressman ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket back in 1988 and was widely seen as a sideshow in 2008, despite finishing third in the GOP field behind John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Why, despite a small but devoted set of supporters, does this 76-year-old obstetrician turned politician routinely get no respect from the media and GOP operatives? Let\u2019s take a look at what \u201cDr. No\u201d &mdash; a nickname grounded in his medical career and his penchant for voting against any bill increasing the size of government &mdash; really stands for.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Ron Paul is not a \u201ctop-tier\u201d candidate.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>At some point in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, the mainstream media became more obsessed than usual with designating GOP hopefuls as \u201ctop-tier\u201d candidates, meaning \u201cpeople we want to talk about because we find them interesting or funny or scary.\u201d Or more plainly: \u201canybody but Ron Paul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney has been accorded top-tier status from the start, but otherwise it\u2019s been a rogues\u2019 gallery. As their numbers soared, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and pizza magnate Herman Cain enjoyed stints in the top tier, and former House speaker Newt Gingrich is now ensconced in that blessed circle.<\/p>\n<p>Back in August, Rep. Michele Bachmann (Minn.) was designated \u201ctop tier\u201d after winning Iowa\u2019s Ames Straw Poll.Paul was not, despite losing to her by only about 150 votes. And when Paul won the presidential straw poll of about 2,000 attendees at the Family Research Council\u2019s Values Voter Summit in Washington in October, the contest\u2019s organizer pronounced him \u201can outlier in this poll.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nick Gillespie in yesterday&#8217;s Washington Post: Ron Paul is the Rodney Dangerfield of Republican presidential candidates. The 12-term Texas congressman ran for president on the Libertarian Party ticket back in 1988 and was widely seen as a sideshow in 2008, despite finishing third in the GOP field behind John McCain and Mike Huckabee. Why, despite [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,28,53,13],"tags":[188,550,517,419],"class_list":["post-12503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-media","category-politics","category-usa","tag-electionwatch","tag-libertarianism","tag-republican","tag-ronpaul"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3fF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12505,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}