Paul doesn't have many fans in Congress

CNN Politics ^ | Wed January 18, 2012 | Dana Bash

[Wyoming Cowboy]

Washington (CNN) -- Briefly back in Congress doing his day job, Ron Paul met with high school students outside his office.

True to form, he signed copies of the Constitution and wryly told them with a chuckle, "No one around here reads it very much. I'd like to get everybody to read it."

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What Paul did not do was attend a closed-door gathering of House Republicans. In fact, the GOP presidential contender is known to never attend these meetings.

But Paul's Republican colleagues who did go had no shortage of opinions about his strong showing in the presidential race so far.

Many were good.

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"Many times, the vote would be 434-1 -- he'd be the one, but he was the one who kind of put up the ideological goal posts -- this is where you should be if you're pure, and what we found is no one is really pure except Ron Paul," he said.

Several House Republicans told CNN they admire his purism.

[brent13a]

so in the absence of Palin

So because Palin isn't running for anything then the next closest thing is Ru Paul? I'm no fan of our GOP choices but I just don't see how Paul is the best compromise between Palin and the other candidates. That really makes no sense to me. To start with, I'm pretty sure Palin's international political views aren't anywhere near the craziness of Paul's views.

[Patton@Bastogne]

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