[mhx]

he will take votes away from the most conservative Republican candidates in the party, not the most liberal

How is Ron Paul going to "take votes away" from conservative candidates that are supposedly much better than him?

He's going to fool them? Republican primary voters are stupid? I don't get it.

[ari-freedom]

He’s going to fool them? Republican primary voters are stupid? I don’t get it.
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the point is not that Republicans are stupid people but rather that Ron Paul is getting stupid people to register as Republicans

[PlainOleAmerican]

We have more candidates than normal already, because many see the need to run against both leftists and Bush leaning social liberals.

At present, the Republican electorate is divided up and down a long list of candidates and a social liberal (Rudy) is leading with the largest minority of support within the party.

RP isn’t taking any votes from Rudy, McCain or Romney because their voters support limited social engineering.

So to the degree that Paul is able to take votes from any other Republican candidate, it will be the more conservative candidates, leaving Rudy atop the field.