Consider yourself Pinged. In National Polling of GOP Primary Voters, Ron Paul is now running 4th amongst all declared Republican Candidates.
Clinton, Giuliani lead in national polling (RON PAUL NOW UP TO 6% amongst Republican Women!)
In other words... PING!
One might argue that paleoPaulie is just a useful idjit but never underestimate the agitprop value of faux "bipartisanship" in the cause of teaching those military folks to avoid service since, sooner or later, they will be backstabbed by a "bipartisan" corps of surrender monkeys consisting of 2 or 3 sorry excuses for GOP Congreescritters (Paul, Jones and maybe Duncan) and a Senator Chuckie Hagel or two in league with the usual gang of Demonrat traitors. As Republicans, these clowns are to politics what the bearded lady and the three-headed snake were to the traveling circuses in days of yore. Strictly sideshow attractions.
Oh well, since even long-marginalized Bircher types need candidates too, they give us paleoPaulie. That is an embarrassment to the more sensible wing of Birchers.
By the way when paleoPaulie is trailing Rudy McRomney (all three of him) and has only 1/3 the support level of unannounced former Senator Fred Dalton Thompson even in the Zogby poll (the same John Zogby whose brother James Zogby is the head of the Demonrat Palestinian outreach effort) I wouldn't be bragging if I were you.
Ancient quotes from Ronaldus Maximus from the 1970s are hardly applicable to backstabber Paulie in 2007 and fool no one. To go along with a strengthened Coast Guard, will paleoPaulie be advocating a barbed wire and Iron Curtain around America, concentration camps and the whole nine yards?
It is a very good thing that the paleoPaulies were not in charge of resisting Islam at Lepanto or Vienna or we would be living under Sharia Law already. Do you paleoguys favor Shi'ite or Sunni masters if your foreign policy should ever become that of the USA, however temporarily? Please explain your preference in 25 words or less so that the rest of us can get back to reloading.
Trailing Rudy McRomney (all three of him) and Fred Dalton Thompson (who has three times his support even according to the Palestinian pollster Zogby) would make Paul 5th not 4th. Soon eough he will be at the level of Liberty Bell Lempke or Harold Stassen and those two have been, well, dead for decades, although they have higher name ID than paleoPaulie.
Hate to rain on your parade but you're making way too much of one poll. Even in this poll, Paul is still running at 3%. Look at the demographics of this poll: 376 Republicans. That is a very small sample size. Such a small sample size will make results at the tails of the distribution (where is Paul firmly entrenched) particularly unreliable. Based on just this one poll, I would be reluctant to conclude that Ron Paul has separated himself from the back of the pack.
Posted on 03/30/2007 9:57:46 AM PDT by Sturm Ruger
First Choice:
F. Thompson 3400 (39%) Giuliani 1381 (15.9%) Romney 1086 (12.5%) Gingrich 975 (11.2%) Hunter 449 (5.2%) Tancredo 416 (4.8%) (none) 358 (4.1%) McCain 240 (2.8%) Brownback 198 (2.3%) Huckabee 97 (1.1%) T. Thompson 62 (0.7%) Gilmore 28 (0.3%) Pataki 17 (0.2%)
He may be in 4th place of declared Republican Voters. (I was not aware there had only been four that declared their candidacy), but he he nowhere near that of possible candidates. The only candidate that would be worse than Paul would be McCrazy.