Why is media ignoring Ron Paul?

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U.S. media is ignoring Ron Paul

What are they scared of?

In last weekend’s Iowa Straw Poll, Texas Congressman Ron Paul polled 27.65.%, losing by 200 votes to Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann’s winning total of 4,823 or 28.55% of votes cast. The Iowa Straw Poll is a GOP fundraiser and tickets to vote cost $30. It is being reported that in her campaign tent, Bachmann’s aides handed out 6,000 free tickets, at a cost to the Bachmann campaign fund of $180,000, so her total of 4,823 votes must have stunned her handlers. But Ron Paul’s 4,671 votes is being passed over by national media as not worthy of a sound bite.

The consistent Ron Paul

Ron Paul has a real constituency, a twelve-term congressman who ran for the Presidency twice (as a Libertarian and a Republican). He is a doctor, a veteran and more than holds his own in the public speaking arena. He speaks with fluency and passion because he doesn’t have to remember what he said last year. He has been remarkably consistent in this, and previous campaigns.

He is a Libertarian and calls for the end to all American involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan and has called for the closure of all military outposts around the world. This appeals to the hard-left. He is also against welfare of any description and that gains approval from the far-right. Independents love him for his leave me alone, self reliant approach to the Federal government and he has a particular distaste for the Federal Reserve.

The fact that elements of his political stance gain nods of approval from both sides of the divide highlights the bipolar nature of American politics. But why are the media ignoring Ron Paul? They don’t how to deal with him. He doesn’t tick all the boxes of the left or the right, so pundits on the news networks get confused when they can’t bracket a Presidential candidate. He is a round peg and refuses to fit in the square hole of either major party.

In the video below Jon Stewart brings to our attention why Ron Paul is passed over the mainstream media.

Ron Paul chews his fellow wannabes up, could he do the same to Obama? Perhaps Ron Paul should run as a Democrat and mount a primary challenge to the sitting President in the fall.