“I don’t know if they’re real or not, but I’m seeing an awful lot of Ron Paul signs in people’s yards around where I live - and these are not crack neighborhoods either - regular middle-class homes.”
I have posted this before, but now it’s getting really wierd here in central Michigan. I see signs for Ron Paul everywhere- there is a HUGE one in a guys front yard in the middle of town. Normal neighborhoods. His bumper stickers on SUVS and normal non crappy cars. A few Huckabee stickers. I don’t see anyone else. We were supposed to trend toward Mitt, but I don’t see any signage or stickers for him anywhere, and when I talk with people, they are not only not for Mitt, but against him. My normal, conservative neighbor (solidly republican-always with signage in her yard) is talking about democratic candidates this year.
A third of self-identified Republicans polled are fed up with the Iraq situation, along with about 70% of the independents and 90% of the Dems, and meanwhile all of the GOP candidates but one are talking about the prospect of not only staying in Iraq indefinitely, but broadening the conflict and nuking Iran.
I mean, holy cow! Talk about "out of touch with reality!!"
Whether 99.9% of Freepers like it or not, Iraq and the Middle East are going to once again, as in 2006, be the defining issue of this election. Do we want to charge fearlessly into another butt-whooping at the polls with a candidate who alienates 35% of Republicans and 70% of the independents?