Electorate Moving in Ron Paul’s Direction?

Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul believes the American people are slowly but surely moving in his direction.

His views on limited government, he says, are no longer considered outside the mainstream.

“During the last campaign, I knew what was happening,” the longtime Texas congressman said during a Sunday morning appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.” 

“You know, they mocked me for my foreign policy and they laughed at my monetary policy,” said the 75-year-old Texan. “No more. No more. The people [are] coming over here.”

There are plenty of reasons for that, explained Paul.

“The attitude toward the endless undeclared silly wars that we fight that are bankrupting us,” he continued. “The silliness of the Federal Reserve printing money when we need so-called wealth, the deficit’s that are uncontrolled…”

The people have finally woke up, he said.

The libertarian-leaning congressman, whose campaign is waging an on-line “money bomb” today — a call-to-arms against perceived frontrunner Mitt Romney and his “bailed-out banker buddies on Wall Street” — continues to run in the middle of the pack in most national polls.

A Public Policy Polling survey released Thursday showed Paul tied for fifth place at 9 percent with former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota.