Electability? What a farce.

Electability is such a huge farce, it puts "The Village" to shame.

See here:

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html

Ok, a little analysis: Ron Paul has consistently been in second behind Mitt Romney in a GOP candidate scenario versus Obama. This despite the fact that Mitt Romney has maintained first place among the field for most of the past 6 months, and Ron Paul has only managed to poll less than 15% nationally. So, there, right off the bat, Ron Paul has almost as much chance to beat Obama as Romney, in everyone's averaged opinion.

But here's my issue:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/the-secret-of-mitt-romneys-iowa-success-electability/2012/01/02/gIQAPBiVWP_blog.html
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/the-early-entrance-polls-romney-seen-as-most-electable-paul-wins-independents-strong-conservatives-like-santorum/

Romney's main argument in the campaign (the main one he says and the main one they are believing) is that he's the most electable, ignoring his dismal performance on the issues or on other indicators of personal appeal. Don't even try making the argument for Newt or one of the Ricks, because the average American hates them. Ron Paul, however is being called unelectable, even though he stands with America on most of his strongest issues. See here:
http://pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
http://pollingreport.com/iran.htm
http://pollingreport.com/afghan.htm
http://pollingreport.com/drugs.htm
To name a few.
No other candidate is being called unelectable, except maybe Huntsman, who has no organization and no charisma, despite being a very nice, accomplished man with good ideas.
Ron Paul is currently polling the most voters against Obama among Independents and Democrats among all the GOP candidates. No one is obviously more harmful to Obama.

This means quite clearly that if you took away this argument, the 'electability' argument, then the whole house of cards would crash and burn. Both 'liberal' and 'conservative' news/talk and party elites, who are currently enforcing this argument, would have to do one of three things: sit on their hands (be more objective as they should be), admit they were wrong and tell the truth about Ron Paul's chances (which would be noble) or continue to denigrate him and the 20% of Americans who would vote for him as an Independent 3rd-party.

The fact of the matter is, if they painted him in a positive light, took his platform seriously, and realized that his supporters will simply not vote on party lines because they are voting for the doctor, not for just any Republican, then you would see his polls jump up, and the reality would emerge that he is America's #1 chance against Obama by a landslide. The media has controlled the race so far, but the undercurrent of Paul and his superb organization will wield amazing power that may win him multiple primaries. Do the math, if right now he's taking over 50% of Independents and even over 20% of Democrats, how would his chances be as the GOP candidate? Better than anyone else's.

I'll end with this... the facts:

http://www.nolanchart.com/article9233-if-ron-paul-isnt-electable-just-who-the-hell-is.html