Thursday, September 8, 2011

Perry, Paul & Romney


No, that's not the back of Romney in the photo, it's a security guard. To be a fly on the wall. . .

Eagle Scout Perry is being catapulted to the top by the talented newsreaders and conscientious news re-writers of the journalistic profession. Perry's state is on fire worse than it should be because he gave authority to the feds in their beige cars to send the fireman home. His Executive Order mandating the vaccination of twelve-year-old girls was unconscionable though highly profitable for all the big bidness boys concerned.

Ron Paul (who has never been asked to explain why he thought to give Shrub more power) cannot get a headline, a byline or an honorable factbox mention - no matter what he says or how many citizen dollars or positive polling numbers come his way. He did rate a Yahoo News blog entry wherein the blogger explains, in the two-questions-one-answer form we Americans have come to be educated, enlightened and advised in:

"But is the news media right to dismiss Paul's candidacy as a sideshow? Was his near-win in Iowa really irrelevant?

One way to answer the question is to look at prediction markets like Betfair and Intrade. These sites are updated in real time by traders who are wagering on the likelihood of each candidate winning the Republican nomination. These traders are jockeying for an information edge as events and non-events unfold. If traders bid up the price of laying a bet on Paul immediately after the straw poll, they were calling it out as a noteworthy event for the candidate. If, on the other hand, his price barely budged, then the traders would be validating the news media's dismissal."

Leveraged buyout magnate Romney earned his riches the new-fashioned way: loopholes in the financial system. And it didn't hurt that Poppa was a governor. His new palace (who says there's no aristocracy in the Republic?) will surely be a green sweep of a demolition leaving no footprint behind.

Conclusion: Romney already owns the odds.