More Politics.

I never thought that I would be into politics. I always kind of laughed at people that spent so much time immersed in that world.

Little did I know how much goes on outside of mainstream knowledge.

In any case, I have been reading some interesting viewpoints on Ron Paul's chances of grabbing the Republican nomination from the still shocked hands of the party leadership.

There seems to be two sides to this argument.

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the first side of the field is the side that I tend to find my self on most days; that Ron Paul would make an excellent Republican nominee, but that the best he can hope for at this point is to make his voice heard. He has been making good showings in most of the states in which he has been campaigning, and that means that regardless of how much they hate him, the MSM has to at least cover him. This has the benefit of bringing economic policy issues into the limelight, and makes a lot of the other candidates look like bumbling fools. He also has no qualms about bashing governmental entities, which is always fun. Ross Perot had a similar effect on the 1992 Election by making a balanced budget a major campaign issue.

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The second side of the field is where the folks who are actually pushing to win are located. I occupied this side early on, but the results from Iowa and New Hampshire were enough to push me off to the aforementioned area of RP support. The most current political coverage of Paul is suggesting that he is saving up his gusto for the less advertised but more influential second part of the primaries, where the vast majority of the delegates are distributed. I am interested in how well he does, and I will definitely donate again if he does well on the 5th, but I will be caucusing Democratic, if at all.

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It should be interesting at the very least, and I would be in political heaven if Paul ends up running against Obama for the presidency, since it would essentially be win-win (it's not very often that one gets to choose between two "goods" in an election). It seems more likely that it will be Obama or Hillary running against McCain or Romney, which would be much more run of the mill, and much less exciting. Especially if Hillary or Romney win, that would be downright scary.

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