American political journalist John Fund on Ron Paul's Exclusion

[JoshLowry]

In the subscription only Wall Street Journal Political Diary John Fund writes the following about efforts to exclude Ron Paul from the June 30 Iowa Forum being hosted by Iowans for Tax Relief and the Iowa Christian Alliance:


There was a brief effort to exclude Texas Congressman Ron Paul from future GOP debates after he used a South Carolina event to criticize U.S. foreign policy as a contributing factor to the 9/11 attacks. The expulsion effort wisely died down when its organizer, GOP State Chairman Saul Anuzis of Michigan, realized (as he later told me) “we were helping Ron Paul by giving him publicity.”

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[angrydragon]

Anuzis, what the hell? Help?

 

[dspectre]

I say keep up the emails and phone calls.

It's their problem if they don't want RP to come. The truth is going to come out.

 

[hambone1982]

Ron Paul being banned is helping us because it is getting us a lot of free press. This would not have happened had he been invited since the beginning. If we hold a big rally outside the Forum for Ron Paul, the media will be all over it, especially if he shows up and gives a speech to his supporters outside the Forum.

I don't think this could have worked out better if we planned it. He'll be all over local and national TV and Iowans and American will get to hear more from Ron Paul.

 

[Bison]

He is right though. The more they try to exclude him the more noise his supporters make about him. That can and has led to interviews and exposure he would not have otherwise gotten.

 

[Zydeco]

John Fund

I don't see it that way. I see it as a 'message' to STOP helping him out by trying to hide him from the public.

Doesn't matter what they do! This train is unstoppable.