Ron Paul equaled John McCain’s take for the third quarter in fundraising. Yet one is seen as the “comeback kid,” the other as an unimportant fringe candidate. Someone want to explain that one?
It’s also very evident that the qualities Ron Paul exhibits in 2008 are of a piece with the ones that led McCain to victory in New Hampshire in 2000. Not to put too fine a point on it, but there’s clearly only one maverick in the Republican field, one guy who is running against the accepted wisdom of the party. He represents an extreme strain of libertarianism and isolationism that the GOP has completely abandoned. That may not play with a base that still largely accepts George W. Bush as a decent President, but in an anti-tax Northeast state in a Republican primary? Paul could honestly win it if Romney continues his free fall. What we know is that he’ll have the money to compete.
Updated 10/03/07 at 1:06pm by Matt Ortega: Eric Kleefield nails it with this salient point from Ron Paul’s fundraising figures.
It does make one wonder how unhappy a lot of Republican voters must be, if a man running on a form of conservatism that is completely antithetical to the modern GOP can end up raising as much cash as somebody who was once thought of as unbeatable.
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