Is the grassroots hype over Ron Paul really true? Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi believes so as Americans get tired of the stupid red-blue state dichotomy which pigeon-holes them as either conservative or liberal:
People are steadily growing disenchanted with red state versus blue state - this really aggressive storyline where if you're conservative you have to hate liberals, and if you're liberal then you have to hate conservatives. For the first time on the campaign trail that I've seen, people are saying, "I haven't spoken to my liberal brother in years but we're actually talking now because we're both disappointed in our respective parties, and we're both getting behind Ron Paul." There's more on-the-ground energy for Ron Paul than there is for the rest of the candidates combined.
Americans, beset by an ineffective (and illegal) war in Iraq and horrified by the response to Hurricane Katrina, are clearly pissed off with the federal government, and they should be. But will this hostility lead a posse of discontented Americans to jump on the back of a dark horse like Ron Paul and make him a contender?
I'm skeptical, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.
