WAPO: What the heck happened to Rand Paul?

[Lindsey]

I never in my life thought my dad would vote for anyone but a democrat. He told me tonight Rand is his favorite. He wants to vote for Rand, but he won't change his registration for the primaries. If Rand is the Republican nominee, he will be elected president.

 

[acptulsa]

A regurgitation of the exact same shit Vladimir 'Unhinged Neocon' Levin said.

Will this boy's scoutmaster please give him his propaganda merit badge already so he can move on to his next merit badge and leave us alone?

He wants to vote for Rand, but he won't change his registration for the primaries. If Rand is the Republican nominee, he will be elected president.

Yeah, he's a chip off the old block, all right. All kinds of sane people want to vote for him, but won't wear the Scarlet Letter R to do it.

They're keeping us in tyranny with closed primaries.

 

[osan]

I checked the Google news feed on a whim a couple hours ago and everything at the top was talking about Rand Paul being an absolute failure. This stuff is like clockwork, and it made me want to put my fist through the monitor, it was so brazenly biased.

This is what people do. This is what the media does, and they do it exceedingly well. Put it out there that candidate X has no chance, he is a loser, a failure, a flop, and people tend to believe it. Why? Cognitive makeup of the human being.

And so media, biased little darlings that they are, make tons of hay with this method. Tell the lie when it suits your agenda and tell it often. People will believe you, almost regardless of their intelligence. Only men of the most fastidious mental habit will not be swayed by this method of blatant dishonesty. The vast and overwhelming majority simply accept it and alter their behavior accordingly. This is particularly true of people who would rather see a crap candidate win than to have the ones they really hate get in. So a demopublican might despise Sanders, but if he thinks Hillary has no chance to win, he will cast for Bernie just to keep a republicrat out. I saw tons of this in '12 where people voted for Romney because they "knew" nobody else had a chance against Obama. That is how the good ones like Ron Paul end up going nowhere: voters are essentially cowards, more concerned with winning at what is effectively any cost than they are with standing with the candidate they feel would be the best. That is a strategy of guaranteed loss, for your best will never get in and you end up with just another jackanapes in office, milking and bilking your prosperity and freedoms as he goes on about how you're better off now than you were four years before.

And the saddest thing is that the loser-nature of this strategy makes itself apparently both rapidly, clearly, and unequivocally - but people stick to it because they allow fear to make the decisions for them. That is one of the reasons we are in it up to our eyeballs now.