Anyway, apparently all of those mailings to long time Repubican primary voters did little good. Still, it was a sensible approach. (Immigration is an important issue and Paul’s position was probably “best” to win votes here. The North America Union stuff was counterproductive.)

The free media gave a broad message that was unpopular witht the Republican base. Mailings to Republicans could counteract that, right?

Well, in hindsight, perhaps it is obvious that it would never work and so those resources were wasted. TV and radio aimed at reinforcing the free media and getting the more of the independent, young, libertarian-oriented Paul voter would have been a better use of the funds.

Now the next libertarian Republican candidate will know. On the other hand, it suggests that victory is going to be more difficult to acheive.

This same dynamic can be seen with the Libertarian candidate Wayne Allyn Root who was on Glenn Beck’s radio show today to talk about tax cuts, big government, and the threat of Islamofascism. Root, who wrote “The Millionaire Republican”, touted his Republican credentials and affirmed his dislike for liberal socialists (he didn’t comment on conservative socialists).

The way things are going, I probably won’t go to the polls this November unless it is to encourage people to not vote. Is that considered political terrorism now?

He should have given up sooner!

But the Paul campaign did nothing to expose this scam.

There’s nothing wrong with enthusiasm, per se, but there comes a time when you want to have “People Who Know What They’re Doing” doing the doing.

Paul could have run the best kind of DLC or Rovian Campaign and still, the carapace of conventional wisdom surrounding the syndicate occupying Foggy Bottom would have insured that he fail.

It is going to take one, or both of two events to break the spell. First, the small government corps must work from the bottom up and in the event of the second event, what looks to be a nearly unavoidable crack-up , the local ground troops will be able to consolidate their efforts to insure that this weird hybrid of Federalism and Tammany Hall does not come back.

These are big “ifs” and the only thing we have going for us, sadly, is the historical record regarding the self-destruction and self-abuse of every imperial project in history. The people of the lapsed republic are in for a rough ride . Lets hope that there is at least a small measure of wisdom left so that intelligent choices will be made on behalf of liberty and chaste government when the bitter medicine that we cannot now avoid confronts us.

Personally, I’m an optimist but this optimism is tempered by what I see every day and so it is a reserved optimism . Mr. Paul and Mr. Obama, two voices with a common theme but with starkly different philosophy have demonstrated that there is a significant , growing and young movement to attack the Mistaken Washington Leviathan. What we all need to do is start pushing our agenda locally.