Skirting the straw poll is telling because it’s obvious they are trying to set a new trend of taking the power out of the hands of the people and putting it back into the hands of the consolidated media, who will surely tell people what matters and what doesn’t in an effort to prevent them from having to think for themselves. Now whoever wins the straw poll will have the victory taken from them because everyone who was, in the media’s darling eyes, “important” wasn’t there.

The American people should PUNISH this cowardice by refusing to elect someone who will not participate. You wouldn’t give a Super Bowl trophy to a team that forfeited, would you? Why award some coward a nomination for president? That goes for Thompson too, seeing as he is skirting all the REAL debating and lurking scared in the shadows of half-assed campaigning.

Thompson, Giuliani, and Romney are the worst kind of cowards. They are all reading from the same playbook, probably written by the same criminals who are backing all three of them.

They are doing what they are doing because they know that it is helping the competition to participate. They know that they can only control their message if the campaign is conducted on the playing court of the TV and radio through second hand soundbytes and political spin artists. These are their henchmen and without them to hide behind, these men are slithering swine too scared of their own shadow to conduct an honorable debate with the likes of Ron Paul, who is a true statesman.