If you oppose him, you're said to be a "neo-con" "statist" or don't love "liberty" etc, blah blah blah. Mix the insane conspiracy theories of Lyndon Larouche and the "destroy all of our enemies" intensity of the Scientology Cult and you've described Ron Paul supporters in a nutshell.

Note to Brian: Look up "liberty" then "license" in the dictionary. There IS a difference, and you're misusing the phrase "personal liberty." What you mean is actually license, and that's not a kind of freedom that we're required to accept without question. In fact, we'd better not or we'll have anarchy.

Their bungling policies got the GOP voted out of the Senate in 2006. The Republican Party needs neocons like a dog needs ticks.

Ron Paul clearly has enormous grass roots appeal. He managed to get 81 percent in the Alabama straw poll and 73 percent in New Hampshire despite what amounts to a mainstream media blackout. Not one political section on CNN or Yahoo News or ABC news bothered to mention either of these victories.

There are two big issues for the 2008 election: Illegal immigration and the war in Iraq. Ron Paul is the only candidate on the right side of both issues. Giuliani made New York a sanctuary city. Romney did nothing about illegals when governor of Massachusetts. Thompson is plan B for the neocons if Giuliani can't get votes.

We've got ten Republican candidates, and only one of them wants to get us out of the illegal and thoroughly fouled up war in Iraq.

The Iraq War is an albatross around the neck of the Republican Party. A pro-war candidate stands absolutely no chance of winning. Just take a look at the 2006 election disaster for the GOP.

Maybe the reason that Dr. Paul got so many responses is that his 56,000 friends on myspace ALL voted that Ron Paul won the debates??

Check out YouTube video Belgians for Ron Paul. They tell the story better.

The largest problem with most policies domestic and foreign here is that they have been preframed and predetermined by special interest groups (complexes military-industrial, prison-industrial, pharmaceutical-industrial, etc.) Duh. These special interest machines run and feed themselves so it really doesn’t matter who is supposedly at the “wheel”: special interests drive policy makers, not the other way around unfortunately. The only solution I can think of is to bleed them dry (defund), which only a Ron Paul presidency would begin to do.

Look, this country is much too large to be governed by a centralized federal plutocracy driven to appease its special interest overlords. Why should we be beholden to a minority group of priveledged power brokers who can’t even begin to represent the diversity that exists here?

The solution is to decentralize through DEVOLUTION (via the UK model: see Scotland ‘97 for example).

So let’s change the slogan: instead of the Ron Paul Revolution let’s have the RON PAUL DEVOLUTION!!!!

The biggest story to me in all these straw polls is that Giuliani has next to zero real world grassroots support. The only places Giuliani is the front-runner is in telephone polls of people who haven't heard of most of the candidates, and in checks from wealthy donors.

Indeed, the winner in Ames has only gone on to win the nomination once.

1979 Bush - Reagan
1987 Robertson - Bush
1995 Dole/Graham - Dole
1999 Bush - Bush
That, I believe makes them at least 1.5 out of 4, not that it much matters.

Maybe the Alabama Straw Poll people need a better publicist so they can get their due coverage.

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