Juan Williams: Sure, Gadfly Ron Paul Could Win GOP Nomination

Juan Williams is supposedly a learned member of the Washington press corps, a guy who should know better than to pen tripe like this. Anyone with functioning brain matter knows Ron Paul is just a gadfly who won't ever get more than a couple percentage points in any given primary. Yes, he's got legions of zombies marching in lockstep with him, but then again, so does any cult figure.

Memo to Williams: Ron Paul will never win the GOP nomination. Yes, his people can spam an online poll with the best of them, but the man has extremely limited appeal.

Here’s a news bulletin — it is becoming increasingly clear that we are living in a time when Republican politics are being shaped by a 75-year-old, 12-term Texas congressman with a son in the Senate. And incredibly, it is no longer out of the realm of possibility that this outcast of the GOP establishment may win the party’s presidential nomination.

If you have not been paying attention, it is time to look around and realize that we are living in the political age of Rep. Ron Paul.

A CNN/Opinion Research poll released late last week shows Paul faring the best against President Obama of any potential Republican candidate. He trails the president by only 7 points, 52-45 percent, in a head-to-head matchup. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee trails by 8 points, with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney down 11 points to Obama.

In February, Paul won the presidential straw poll at the Conservative Action Conference for the second straight year.

Last Thursday, the day of the first GOP debate, one of Paul’s fabulously-labeled “money bombs” exploded with the announcement of $1 million in contributions for the Paul campaign.

Go back to 2008 and the factors cited by Williams also happened then. Then when the ballot boxes opened Paul was reduced to a footnote.

But Juan Williams, super genius, know betters than the GOP rank and file.