Ron Paul On This Week

Ron Paul appeared on ABC News’s This Week yesterday and put on a passably good performance:

Both David Griffus @ LewRockwell.com and David Weigel @ Hit&Run make something of the closing exchange between Paul and Stephanopoulos:

Stephanopoulos: What’s success for you in this campaign?

Paul: What’s success? Well, to win, is one, is the goal.

Stephanopoulos: That’s not going to happen.

Paul: Do you know for absolute? Are you willing to bet every cent in your pocket for that?

Stephanopoulos: Yes.

Paul: You are. OK. I thought so when I ran for Congress. I wouldn’t bet anything I could have been elected to Congress. The odds are great, the odds are difficult, and I know that. But I would say that what has happened so far has been about 100 times greater than I anticipated.

Frankly, I think it was a totally legitimate question Paul consistently polls below 3% in every scientific poll that has been conducted to date. He has raised, at best, 1/10th of the amount of money as the frontrunners in the Republican race. The one thing he’s proved good at is getting alot of free media coverage. But that’s not enough to win a Presidential campaign.

Reason summed it up well in it’s candidate profile series last month:

It would be nice to live in a world where Ron Paul could actually win.

Yes, it would.