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Finally, it looks as though Vivek Ramaswamy may be gaining some traction in his bid to become the 2024 Presidential nominee. Although we still have a long way to go, and with any other big anticipated race, we will see ebb and flow.
Recently, on our blog, Toni wrote about the double-digit polling for Vivek. This is good news. I also want to see “a hard-fought primary.”
Vivek Ramaswamy is making waves and getting his name inserted into more mainstream media headlines. While this is a good thing for recognition, there still needs to be more. However, this is only so much a candidate can do. The rest is up to the American people to do their due diligence.
Ramaswamy’s candidacy has generally been viewed as a longshot and the Echelon poll could be something of an outlier. The RealClearPolitics polling average, which does not include the Echelon survey, currently places Ramaswamy in a tie for 6th place with former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. – Just The News
You will probably now start seeing more of the garden variety of snippets and soundbites the mainstream media wants to feed you. Such as blurbs about Ramaswamy’s stance on Ukraine, like this one from The Hill:
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy slammed Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Saturday for pushing for Ukraine’s admission into NATO, accusing the Republican lawmaker of “marching us to the brink of nuclear war.”
“@JoeBiden needs to man up to his bully-friend Zelensky & clearly state that we are dead-set opposed to Ukrainian admission to NATO,” Ramaswamy tweeted, ahead of next week’s NATO summit in Lithuania. “This should be a hard red line.”
“It’s shameful that even Republicans like @LindseyGrahamSC are now pushing for it,” he added. “Stop marching us to the brink of nuclear war.”
I agree with Vivek, but I also know a lot of other Republicans do not, especially about Ukraine.
And now we are getting into perhaps what some may call the nitty-gritty. His faith. The New York Times has an article about it.
I reported on how Vivek Ramaswamy is leaning into his Hindu faith to make a pitch to Republican Christians: “I don’t have a quick pitch to say, ‘No, no, that doesn’t matter. …It’s that I understand exactly why that would matter to you.” https://t.co/t9NfvToVDI
— Ruth Graham (@publicroad) July 9, 2023
My thoughts about his faith will be for a future blog post. But I will tell you it doesn’t worry me, and I hope he does start making appearances and visits to the south.
What worries me is that some American voters rely solely on these mainstream headlines as their due diligence. So this is why you will see me write a lot about Vivek here on the blog. He is more than a headline and more than a soundbite and certainly deserves more attention. For me, he is becoming a more viable candidate for America. I cannot wait for the debates! Very exciting.
Republicans say they want a jolt of new ideas with a vigorous, bright, and straightforward change for the Grand Old Party, or at least the headlines tell us as such. I have to question, though, do they? We keep putting up the same old dogma, and our tired culture is becoming like one of Kamala’s word salads.
Personally, I’ve been very impressed with his grassroots campaigning. He doesn’t shy away from smaller venues like his upcoming Taproom Tuesday’s Liberty Meetup. He also uses newer forms of media, such as podcasts, to get his message out.
Most recently, he took to his podcast, where he invited someone he “met” on Twitter to discuss her questions about his tactics to reach black voters.
Description from his YouTube channel for this particular episode:
In this episode, recorded on the road in Howell, Michigan, Vivek hosts an in-depth conversation with Twitter acquaintance and political independent, Christy Kelly. Kelly, an outspoken social media commentator known for her insightful perspectives, discusses topics from race-conscious policies to political outreach and the role of social media in civic discourse. The conversation spans various topics like the impact of affirmative action, minority outreach, economic growth strategies, national identity, and immigration policies. Vivek also delves into personal topics such as his faith, his decision to leave a multi-billion dollar company, and his vision for the future of America. Tune in for an enlightening dialogue, full of robust debates and enlightening insights.
So while all the habitual dramatist will click out their articles from their keyboards, be sure to do some of your own online investigating of all the candidates. Read from a new source, listen to a podcast, and don’t just take the typical headlines you are sure to read in the coming days as the holy grail of news.
Feature Image: Gage Skidmore/Flickr/Vivek Ramaswamy/CC BY-SA 2.0
Cameron says: The NY Times is desperately hoping that by focusing on his beliefs as a Hindu and that he’s a Little Brown Person it will cause the Republicans to rally against him. If that fails, then he’ll become the new “dark face of white supremacy.”
It’s the only thing they have. Hopefully in a few years, “I read it on the New York Times” will have as much influence as “I saw this in the National Enquirer.”
I don’t think they fear his Presidency – but I do think they fear his ideas. They could end up incorporated into the platform of someone that can be elected by overcoming the fraud margin.
I think that I can safely ignore his Hindu faith (although I do tend to favor those who do at least have a belief in a morality that is above their own base desires). So far, he has not shown the slightest interest in implementing those beliefs as government policy.
I could be wrong about that, of course. But if he comes after my steak, I will be among the first to dump his vindaloo into the nearest body of water and start Revolution 2.0.
Cameron says: I’ve just seen that before with the media. “He’s a…minority! Don’t you conservatives think it’s problematic that a brown person is running for office??!” (See Bobby Jindal and how they had to remind us that his real name was Piyush.
The thing is that Biden is all they have and it’s getting harder by the day to prop him up. So attacking his strange religion and skin color is all they have left. After all, Democrats don’t like it when their property is off the plantation.
Getting back to Vivek: From what little I have read on his page, he has some sound policy ideas. I’m taking a Wait and See approach to this.
Skillyboo says: When we start seeing more news critical of him we’ll know the leftist stream media will perceive him as a threat.
Cameron says: It will come out that he said something raysis back in 4th grade which means he’s not eligible for office. Or some chick with a rape fantasy will be dragged into the spotlight with a lurid tale about a college party gone wrong.
OK, that sounds cynical but it’s not like we haven’t seen this before.
Joe R. says: You still have a long way to go.
Start by trying to fool us MORE than yourselves.
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