When a potential candidate is attacked and/or publicly dismissed before they have even officially announced their candidacy for US Senate, it is a good sign that they have some insiders in the Washington establishment worried.
That has been the case of late in the Washington insider press with potential candidate, the economist Peter Schiff.
Case and point: yesterday in the publication Roll Call, the establishment “nonpartisan” writer Stuart Rothenberg does his best to dismiss the not yet official candidacy of Peter Schiff for Chris Dodd’s Connecticut US Senate seat. In so many words he claims that Schiff will have an impossible time getting elected because he is not ready to run a conventional Senate campaign.
This article goes a long way in showing just how out of touch some Washington insider journalists are with the feelings of main street America at the present time.
In the article Rothenberg argues:
“Schiff thinks that he might be able to win in Connecticut because, unlike Paul, he has to win in “only” one state, while Paul had to win in the entire country. Maybe someone should tell him that Paul didn’t come close to winning either the Iowa straw poll or the Iowa caucuses, two low-turnout events that were made to order for the Texan given the enthusiasm of his supporters.”
He fails to mention how early in the Ron Paul phenomenon the Iowa straw poll and Iowa caucuses occurred, and how much the movement has grown since then, now more than a year and a half later. So the point that Schiff makes is valid, he has a head start by being a nationally recognized economist that predicted the current financial crisis.
Rothenberg also fails to mention how the match up against Chris Dodd (given Schiff emerges from the GOP primary) is perfect for Schiff given Senator Dodd’s very public involvement in the AIG scandal.
Rothenberg also critizies Schiff for boasting that he will be able to raise much of his campaign cash from donors outside of the state of Connecticut.
Again, Rothenberg misses the point and fails to acknowledge that there is a substantial Liberty movement that will fund like-minded candidates outside of their state or district to have their views represented in Congress. In other words, while the Liberty movement is still in a stage of growth they are making the smart move to pool their cash and manpower and strategically picking winnable battles. Schiff vs. Dodd happens to be at the top of the list of those potential battles.