Ron Paul is rolling in huge amounts of money via the Internet. The media and other candidates are baffled. He always was considered a joke, a fringe personality - not fit for office (although he is a longtime member of the US Congress) nor discussion.

But is his current success really a surprise? Hardly. Ron Paul offers foremost a real alternative (in talking points) to the American public. His constitutional fundamentalism is a refreshing change to all the slogan bashers ("Those evil islamo-fascists!") and super christy vote hunters. He is a reminder of what Americas great founding fathers had written down and that the constitution is still valid and doesn’t need so much shady legal bending like in the recent years ("Waterboarding is not torture!" etc).

But people go to him in droves, because the Democrats are offering no encouraging alternative to the über-corrupt Republicans. If the DEMs would be worth anything they would have won the last election with a huge majority - but they didn’t. Almost like the Torris in Britain they have been weak for years - to weak to really exploit all the damage George Bush and his Neocon brethren have inflicted on the US.

Money isn’t everything in politics …

For many disappointed REPs and independent voters in the US Ron Paul is the only interesting and consistent candidate to vote for. He has a consistent voting record and politics in the US congress - and has been speaking truth to power for a long time. He has the spine that the DEMs so much lack. That is the secret of his success.

Will he succeed? Nope. The political establishment - especially the Republican Party can’t allow his success beyond the primaries. He will be stopped or has to run again as an independent - what will be his doom.

It’s all a political wet dream. Even if Ron Paul would become the next President of the US of A he would be a lame duck. He has no political support or established party system out in the wild, nor on the floor of the US senate or congress. He would be impotent without that apparatus. Although Dick Cheney has made sure the next President has a lot of executive power it won’t be enough. Similar to Oliver Chromwell he would have to become a democratic dictator to mend the US system.

Ah, the irony of Realpolitik …

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