Getting Into the First (or Second) Tier of Decision 2008

It’s difficult for third tier Presidential candidates in the current U.S. primaries to make any headway. It seems some will try anything. First you have Ron Paul who is saying, some would say, scandalous things at the debates (see quote below) and is campaigning on the platform to abolish the IRS:

PAUL: They attack us because we've been over there. We've been bombing Iraq for 10 years. We've been in the Middle East [for years]. I think [Ronald] Reagan was right. We don't understand the irrationality of Middle Eastern politics. Right now, we're building an embassy in Iraq that is bigger than the Vatican. We're building 14 permanent bases. What would we say here if China was doing this in our country or in the Gulf of Mexico? We would be objecting.

GIULIANI: That's really an extraordinary statement. That's an extraordinary statement, as someone who lived through the attack of September 11, that we invited the attack because we were attacking Iraq. I don't think I've heard that before, and I've heard some pretty absurd explanations for September 11th. And I would ask the congressman to withdraw that comment and tell us that he didn't really mean that.

Now we have former Alaskan Senator Mike Gravel making experimental videos on YouTube:


Check out how his aides explain it.