Griper Blade: "Disinformation?" More Like Information

Anthony Wade of OpEdNews warns us about people that don't want Ron Paul to be president. In an article, titled Agents of Disinformation, The Smearing of Dr. Ron Paul, we're told that people like me are pretty much evil. First I'd heard about it, but there ya go.

It begins with a Ghandi quote Paulistas like -- "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they attack you, then you win" -- and goes on to explain which phase we're in. We're in attack phase. Here's the thing though, it's a damned election. Everyone's in the attack phase. I'm surprised Paulistas never noticed that campaigns were brutal before. Welcome to John Kerry's and Al Gore's world.

"Something funny happened on the way to our corporate election though; the people weren't buying it anymore," Wade writes. "Paul started to receive huge grassroots support across party and ideological lines." About that "huge grassroots support" -- Paul's polling at 3% nationally. Although we've learned in recent elections that you don't have to have a majority to win, you kind of have to have somewhere in the neighborhood of 50%. When someone polling at 3% wins, it'll really be time to look into runoff elections.

Then again, I always say that polls influence polls. When you see polls that show a majority answered differently than you would've, it's not all that unreasonable to question your own decisions. People tend to see themselves as independent-minded, but also tend to follow trends -- that's how fashion works. That's not a criticism, it's just an observation. As I say, it's not unreasonable or illogical to be influenced by the opinions of others. In fact, in some cases it's wise.

If Ron Paul starts moving up nationally, other people will be influenced by that rise. That's pretty much what happened with Huckabee -- the guy's an empty suit. I suppose the same could happen to Ron Paul eventually, but to say he has "huge grassroots support" is more than a little factually-challenged.

Then Wade gets into this "disinformation campaign." Frankly, I seem to be missing the "dis" part. It looks like an information campaign. For example, he informs us, "The truth is that I have heard a lot of reasons over the past several days why people think they could not possibly vote for Dr. Paul and a lot of them are just inaccurate on their merits. The first reason I have heard is that he is a republican."

Yeah, he is. Wade tells us so. In fact, if I were to name a Republican that Paul reminded me most of, I'd have to choose Newt Gingrich -- at least in beliefs, if not in demeanor...

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