Huckabee is disturbing. But what’s this with Rep. Paul getting the second amount of votes? From the Value Voters? A pleasant surprise. And the Straussian representative, Alan Carpetbagger Keyes, only got 24. Guess his message isn’t as popular as he thinks it is.
In the interest of full and honest disclosure, Ron Paul supporters are experts at text messaging and spamming. They are trained professionals on a closed course...do not attempt this at home. It is what it is.
He won't "win", but I would love to see Ron Paul mount a credible campaign to scare the crap out of Big Gubmint GOP types. That in and of itself would be a big "win". Ron could advance his ideology long after he has left this Earth.
Ron Paul demonstrated once again that he will not play to the audience. On a fair amount of the yes/no answers he was the only one dissenting. For those of us that know his positions, the dissent ion was not from the idea, but from the idea that the federal government should be taking those positions or taking actions on those issues.
Keyes disappointed me mainly for his clapping when he disagreed with RP on an issue. It was a lot like Rudi laughing in the previous debate.
It was also obvious to me that the 2nd tier candidates were trying to score points by being the one to take on RP. Hence the comment about not “blaming America First” by one of them.
It is fairly easy for a republican candidate to play to this crowd without moving very far from their positions. RP had the courage to stick to his convictions in the yes/no questioning period even though they were not popular with this group. Given a chance, he would have explained that his dissenting vote was based on constitutional principles, not because he disagreed with the idea.