Where is Ron Paul going to get his soldiers and officers from if he's going to build the kind of grassroots movement needed to force his way onto the national political stage? It's not going to come from the Beltway conservatives. His campaign by definition is a political insurgency, and if it's to gain traction, it will have to come from the disenfranchised, the angry, and those who have (completely understandably) lost all faith and confidence in the irretrievably broken and criminally corrupttwo-party system and the "liberal-conservative" charade.
As the late, great Samuel Francis pointed out on numerous occasions, Pat Buchanan's fatal mistake was utilizing the rhetoric of nationalism and patriotism while failing to openly embrace all of those elements to whom his alleged beliefs most resonated. Francis specifically mentioned populists, white racialists (including David Duke supporters), constitutionalists, and presumably the listeners of Alex Jones' show, all of whom were rigidly rejected by Buchanan. In other words, the true believers and others highly motivated, no matter how distasteful they may be to the self-appointed arbiters of the "mainstream" in America, are exactly the folks whocan make or break Ron Paul's campaign and whose support he must cultivate if he is to get anywhere.
Paul's campaign may never become anything, but it certainly will never get anywhere by following the tried-and-true formula for failure of being oh-so careful not to offend the perpetually offended (ala what Don Imus is being put through right now), and making sure not to let anyone decreed as "politically incorrect" by the standards of the establishment play any part in his campaign. Alex Jones has a substantial audience and if they are gung-ho for Ron Paul, he is absolutely correct to embrace their support. One and two percent is all that's needed to forge and leada powerful movement; that's how history has always been changed, not by the masses, and don't forget it's only one percent running things now.
