The untold story...

I will resume my follow up story from yesterday for tomorrow but I wanted to get this out.

There is an untold story of the Republican primaries, which, for the nearly every American has had no way of knowing, that has continued alongside the Democratic primaries, and received almost no media coverage. That story is that the Republican primaries could have been made more interesting media content due to the fact that, although, John McCain has been the “presumptive Republican nominee” since January, as late as last month, McCain squeeked out 70% in the Pennsylvania primary. I use squeeked due to the fact that even without any media coverage over 11% of the Republican primary voters went for Mike Huckabee, who had officially dropped out in February, and 16% have voiced their desires for Ron Paul.

In Idaho, just last week, Ron Paul received 24% in the Republican primary. This is an amazing figure considering the public has been fed virtually no information indicating that McCain has any opponents at all! Huckabee has consistently managed to pick up 7-10% in each state. He continued to wipe up the core religious right wing that remains of the dying Republican generation. But Ron Paul is a phenomenon that the Republican Party refuses to let the media get their hands on. They don't want to dilute the Republican vote as they know how much work it is going to be to beat the democrats anyway, let alone having problems even to this date of party unity. They present their story that the Republican Party is solid and behind McCain to a false reality, of which they have become very proficient at presenting their false realities. We can see based on these poll recent results that the Republican primaries media coverage don’t give us the full view of appropriate proportional delegate representation, as the democrats do. If they did, there would still be a race going on there with true media coverage. So, what does all of this mean?

The Republican National Convention in Minneapolis in September may have some surprises in the form of dissent from within. Only it won’t be liberal Democrats and anarchists rioting in the streets, it will be millions of those Republicans who have been trying to register their opposition to the War, to deficit spending, and to the Imperial Presidency, to which Dick Cheney has called it, the “Unitary Executive”. (whatever he is trying to make the public know what that means)

While I can agree with only a few of Dr. Paul’s libertarian ideas (those being economic ideas) I disagree with much of his conservative platform as they are contrary to my liberalism. But I find it encouraging that so many Republicans are still expressing their views and desires even with no voice afforded them by the media. I am hoping that this will shine brightly at the Republican convention and show that party the dissent it deserves. Perhaps it will be time that the reactionary Rove agenda will dissipate and delude the overall party consensus to a point that the left wing conservative will realize the party's misrepresentations that have been going on and they will finally see the manipulation of the press that the Republicans have come to control so well and side with a democratic option in Nov.