The Drudge Report recently ran the headline: “Rasmussen Shock Poll: Obama 41%, Ron Paul 37%.” For the political establishment that has been telling us Ron Paul is “unelectable,” this poll must have indeed been shocking. But what does this tell us about the grassroots electorate?
Americans once fed up with President George W. Bush and his doubling of government and the debt are now even more fed up with a Democratic president who recklessly triples both. Throughout July, Obama and the Democrats have made their case that a $14.3 trillion national debt is not enough. Most Americans simply aren’t buying it.
The recent controversy over whether to raise the debt ceiling is simply the most high profile version of the same debate Ron Paul has been battling out with the entire Washington establishment for decades. Liberals now point out that the debt ceiling has been raised many times even under GOP administrations. They’re right. But there has always been at least one Republican who has consistently refused to add to the debt under any administration.
The real story behind the Rasmussen poll is that like Paul, most of the Republicans running for president match up competitively against President Obama. Indeed, replacing Obama might be the easy part according to Rasmussen. But what if Obama’s Republican replacement isn’t much better?
For decades, the size of government and debt has grown under both parties—George H.W. Bush left behind a government larger than Ronald Reagan’s, Bill Clinton outdid the first Bush, the second Bush outdid Clinton, and now Obama outdoes them all.
For a Republican president in 2012 to simply maintain government at its current level would be unprecedented in modern history. According to that same history, for a GOP president to actually shrink government and reduce the debt is also highly unlikely. Even the last conservative to sit in the White House—Ronald Reagan—left behind a much larger national debt. Today, every Republican presidential candidate promises to reduce government. But why should we believe that these Republicans can accomplish what even Reagan couldn’t?
Many Republicans in the past have said they admire Paul’s strict constitutional principles, but don’t believe he can be elected president. Rasmussen not only says that Paul can win but that he is better positioned than some of media-anointed “frontrunners” to do so. Today, virtually every Republican presidential candidate boasts they can accomplish what even Reagan couldn’t—while constantly having to make excuses for big government records that fail to match their rhetoric.
Voters are now unquestionably fed-up enough to defeat Obama. But the reason Obama was elected to begin with was because 2008 voters were fed-up with Bush and his big spending. In this election not only can Paul win, but so could America—in finally having a genuine limited government president instead of just another partisan footnote. In 2000, most conservatives thought that no Republican could be worse than Bill Clinton. They were wrong. In 2012, the worse thing the GOP could possibly do is serve up yet another round of big government under a Republican brand.
For decades, many conservatives have talked the talk, but few have really walked the walk. Come November 2012, kicking Obama out of the White House will be vitally important—but even more important will be what kind of Republican he is replaced with.
By: Jack Hunter
https://www.ronpaul2012.com/2011/08/...resident-paul/
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