Topic: Presidential Campaign 2008
Ron Paul Doesn't Look Presidential on Leno

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Presidential Races in an American Idol World

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by John Armstrong
(libertarian)
Tuesday, January 8, 2008

After Ron Paul's appearance on Jay Leno's tonight show on the eve of the New Hampshire Primary, I thought about what a lot of people who only get their news from the mainstream media might think about Ron Paul.  My guess is that their thoughts would be something along the lines of "Ron Paul doesn't look Presidential." 

This prompted my performing an interesting, to me anyway, series of Google searches.  I wanted to share the results with you as I think they offer a revealing, albeit very non-scientific, perspective of this Presidential Election.

I Googled the following (all with quotes):

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Doesn't look Presidential: 2,380 matches

Doesn't sound Presidential: 273

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Romney looks Presidential: 612

Huckabee looks Presidential: 4

Paul looks Presidential: 3

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Romney sounds Presidential: 34

Huckabee sounds Presidential: 2

Paul sounds Presidential: 1 (and it was about Saturday's ABC Debate)

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Romney is intelligent: 1480

Huckabee is intelligent:  8

Paul is intelligent: 4790

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Mitt Romney is intelligent:  7

Mike Huckabee is intelligent: 2

Ron Paul is intelligent: 1790

I could easily go into a dissertation about how looking Presidential seems to be more important than sounding Presidential. I could ask you to consider whether sounding Presidential had anything to do with the actual words being conveyed or simply how they were conveyed.   I could write about how seeming funny is more important than looking presidential or sounding presidential.  I could write about how all of those things seem to be more important than being intelligent, and how sad this is. I could write about how the media portrays Ron Paul in order to dismiss his intelligence.  I could write about the dumbing down of America. I could write about a lot of things, but I won't.

If you can't interpret this for yourself and understand the implications, you likely wouldn't be reading this to begin with and probably feel an odd sense of connection with the 90% of people who voted in Iowa last week.  New Hampshire, please show us today that you can read and think and that those things are important to you.

We all know that the smart kid in class gets laughed at and called names only later to be called "Boss" when enough time has passed.  My only hope is that there is enough time left before November for the smart kid in this class of candidates to be called "President."

Your Fellow American,

John Armstrong

P.S. If you want a glimpse of his intelligence, understand what his talk about the Federal Reserve or Gold Standard is about, and haven't read the article I wrote titled "Ron Paul: A Man Among Boys at ABC Debate", this would be a great time to do it.

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Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Last modified: Tuesday, January 8, 2008

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