Capitol Hill Blue - Chumps

Capitol Hill Blue is picking up a freemarketnews.com story about Ron Paul's fundraising and trumpeting it as evidence that Paul's campaign is doomed.

Uh...news flash. Everyone already knows Ron Paul can't win the Republican nomination. Paul seems to think he's running for the Republican nomination in 1980, and it's not 1980. The Republican party has shifted demographically and ideologically since then and there is no room in the party now for anything but slobbering torturers and Young Earth hillbillies.

That's not to say that Paul is wasting his time, however. By being in the campaign at all, Paul forces the other candidates to embrace their war policy and their extralegal detention policy and their hatred of the Bill of Rights that much more closely as they compete with each other to scorn Ron Paul. Since that dooms the eventual nominee to a McGovern-scale defeat in the general election, this is a very good thing.

That sort of spoiler campaign is also very, very inexpensive to run, so it really is of very little importance how much Paul has raised. That being said, I think given the track record over at freemarketnews.com, the folks at Capitol Hill Blue might want to hold off on doing their victory dance just yet. They pulled a number out of their ass over there before, and there's every likelihood they're doing it again.

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