The Naked Truth
columnist: EJ Moosa

Topic: Ron Paul
Winners and Losers

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In today's Newspeak, Winning means more than six of ten voters did NOT select you.

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by EJ Moosa
(Libertarian)
Friday, January 4, 2008

The more I watch and listen, the more I realize our own language is being used and manipulated against us.

In years past, the headline might have read "No Clear Consensus in Iowa". Today's media proudly proclaims Huckabee the "winner" of the Iowa Caucus.

With 34% of the vote for Mike Huckabee, and 66% voting that someone else would better serve as the Presidential Nominee of the Republican Party, I must ask why have we let the Media get away with these new definitions?

By allowing them to call Huckabee a winner, it means that the rest must have lost. As a Paul supporter, I assure you this is not the case. How many times does it take for an average "Joe" to hear that Huckabee won and make this association permanent without realizing that he "won" while receiving only one of three votes cast?

Paul's message is getting through, however. To garner 10% of the vote with all of MainStream Media opposed to your message is not losing at all. 

I salute all of the Paul supporters who worked so hard in Iowa despite the overwhelming odds. Congratulations on getting Paul into double digits, an area where the media only begrudgingly acknowledged he could be a few days before the Caucus.

There are certainly winners and losers. Mitt Romney proved that having a lot of money does not mean you know how to spend it wisely. Mike Huckabee proved the religious faith card was good for at least one event in the primary season. Mitt gambled and lost, while Huckabee's New Year's Eve gambit seemed to play well.

Rudy Guilliani showed he could garner 3% of the vote by visiting sunny Florida. For what Iowa's delegates mean in the end, Rudy may have been the wise one.

But we are the ones that are going to lose if we continue to let the media define things for us. We must call them to task. There was no clear winner. There was no consensus. No Republican will be elected President with that low level of support from their party's constituents.

One should not assume that I will vote for the winner of the Republican's Primary season. If your principles are not sufficiently enough aligned with mine, you will not receive my vote. So you better get to work and clearly define the principles you believe in if you are calling yourself the winner.

Huckabee must find the answer to this question to move forward: "Why did Sixty-six per cent of the voters think I was not the best candidate?" For if he does not, this "Winner" will be a certain loser.

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