HAAAA! I love the way, after screaming for months about a Paul finsh in 2nd or 3rd place in Iowa, the Paulbots NOW want to claim Iowa “is not Paul’s area”.
Given Iowa’s history of populist politics if Paul cannot do well there, he cannot do well anywhere.
lolz they are spamming the cspan2 call in line.
I’m not a Paulbot. I’ll probably vote for McCain as an anti-Romney vote. The IA GOP caucus were 60% Born-Again or Evangelical Christian and the war in Iraq was of importance to only 17% of them. The numbers in NH next week will be quite a bit different, more in line with the less religious and more concerned about the war voting group Paul attracts.
Ron Paul was just eliminated from a debate because he was thought to be an afterthought, an asterisk, but Iowa GOPers gave him 74% of the total Fred Thompson got. There’s no way he is left out of that debate now. Hunter was left out and will remain left out, likely.
I wouldn’t consider myself a Paul “bot” but I’ve been pretty insistant that he would get less than 5% in a state where the Republicans go for evangelicals like Robertson and W, and all the youth and anti-war indy voters would go caucus with the Dems. The actual “Paulbots” called me quite a few names.
Frankly I’m beyond shocked he’s getting around 10% in what we all knew would be the equivalent of a Wednesday night church service. I was thinking I’d have to wait until New Hampshire to see Paul have a chance at double digits.
I have to say I’m very, very happy with 10% in Iowa, in a caucus. Makes me happy I spent extra to get the really nice Paul bumper sticker for my Jeep Liberty.