A reader writes:
You wrote: "What I object to is the automatic liberal media bias that doesn't treat this serious principled candidate seriously; and the consistent, sustained, vicious war on him by Fox, and the neocon right."
I think it's fairly obvious why both camps are against him. He represents the greatest threat to the entire Republican establishment. If he wins, Ailes, Limbaugh and company have lost the movement.
And on the left side of the aisle? He's the only Republican who stands a decent chance of winning an election against Barack Obama.
Paul can credibly claim to be more anti-war than Obama, can credibly claim to be more interested in civil liberties than Obama, and (alone among the Republican field) can credibly claim to be more pro-gay rights than Obama. He might not actually be any of that, but he's the only Republican candidate who wouldn't be laughed off the stage – or disowned by his own party's voters – for saying so.
Paul is the only Republican in the field that the youth won't reject as an anti-gay fundamentalist. If Paul gets the nomination, Obama will have to fight for the youth that he won so overwhelmingly in 2008 and that the Democrats have taken as a given since just about forever. Nobody is going to be excited over Romney, and everybody hates Newt. Paul is really the biggest danger to a second Obama term.
The Dish 