Posted on 01/20/2012 1:59:21 AM PST by 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."
[...]
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.
[...]
"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.
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