Rich Galen and Donald Lambro both wrote columns about the GOP debates and pros and cons of the candidates, however there was one glaring omission in their analysis: Congressman Ron Paul. Not that it surprises me that most mainstream conservative columnists are avoiding the issue. Just one look at how supposedly conservative Fox News is treating him and we can understand what the marching orders are.

Yet it is surprising on a different level. It is inexplicable to me how anyone who claims to be a conservative could totally overlook a person like Ron Paul. Ron Paul is the most conservative of the bunch. Besides Tom Tancredo, he's the only one advocating border security and stopping the idiotic Security and Prosperity Partnership.

While the front runners John McCain, Mitt Romney and Ruddy Guliani have wonderful distinctions and accomplishments such as limiting free speech, supporting abortion and never having met a gay advocacy group he couldn't support respectively, Ron Paul sticks staunchly to his principles. Excuse me, but can anyone name the principles that McCain has consistently held throughout his life, save the principle that he's wonderful and no one should question his positions? What about the other two? Can we guarantee that if they become President, they won't sell us down the river at the first opportunity for political power or monetary gain?

There is a distinction between a career politician and a Statesman and that can be seen in Ron Paul. It is conviction and the lack of willingness to compromise on core beliefs. Interestingly enough, that reminds me of the definition Rush Limbaugh has espoused for almost 20 years. Isn't it funny that Mr. "I have the power" ignores his own definitions when it comes to a man who's policies he doesn't agree with?

Ron Paul believes in limited government, lower taxes - to put it mildly, supports the second amendment and the original interpretation of the constitution, not some watered-down psycho-babble version that happens to be convenient for the elites to use to control the rest of us. Ron Paul believes that life has intrinsic value and can't be thrown away just because certain lives are inconvenient for certain self-absorbed people.

While most of the pack jostles for position in front of the microphone to declare that they are channeling the spirit of Ronald Reagan, Ron Paul simply shows that he was always a Reagan Republican and no posturing is necessary.

Congressman Ron Paul may not have a chance in the minds of the political establishment or in the view of the media pundits and columnists who can't remember what it was like to not see themselves as smarter than the rest of us, but the American People know a genuine Statesman when they see one. This is why the polls have had Congressman Paul winning. This is also why Fox News had to lie about their own poll to spin the results. Faux News: Fairly Imbalanced announced that of their poll which was not accessible to internet voters, the results were skewed by the same internet voters which they denied access. What was the result that they were making absurd excuses for? Mitt Romney and Ron Paul in a virtual tie, with Ruddy trailing badly. Now that's what I would call reaching down deep and taking one for the team.

Don't go whining at me about my distrust of Fox News, go talk to ol' Rupert about his fund raisers for Hillary. While you're at it, ask Limbaugh - my childhood idol - a question or two about why he is so dead-set against Congressman Paul. I refuse to believe the tired old line that so many of the political establishment keep telling us about how small name candidates, or truly conservative candidates for that matter don't have a chance. He supported Reagan, who was not exactly looked at as Presidential for a long time. The only reason Ron Paul will not get his chance is the willful deceit of the political establishment to paint him as someone who no one is supporting. These people know that they can make a self-fulfilling prophecy. What was it that Hitler said about repeating a lie often enough?

So Limbaugh censors Paul supporters based on the empty idea that he's not got a chance. Then, in nearly the same breath he declares himself all-powerful when it comes to determining who the Republican nominee is. Would someone point out to Mr. Limbaugh the flaw in his logic please?

Fox New's somewhat conservative host Sean Hannity basically attacks Ron Paul in his interview and fauns all over Mitt Romney. Why is it that 'conservatives' are attacking their own? Because Ron Paul is anti-war, and apparently the definition of conservative has changed. In order to be patriotic and conservative we have to now subscribe to the view that war is good. We have to believe that this 'generational' war that was never declared by Congress as the Constitution demands and which has no perceived ending according to the administration itself is the litmus test to see if you are a conservative. I can't understand where they get that from. Oh, wait. Hitler was the one who did that little song and dance in Germany to get support for the 'Final Solution.' You couldn't be a loyal German if you didn't agree with his genocidal policies. And here we are, listening to so-called conservative pundits and columnists who can't distinguish between two very different ideas and refuse to acknowledge the validity of traditional conservative values.  Anyone who does point this out is ostracized and called names or simply ignored completely. The grandure of their corporate dilusion is amazing.

Some would call this the demolition of 'The Market of Ideas' as Limbaugh likes to call it. I've got another take: Welcome to the Fourth Reich.