You haven’t been reading the thread. Both Ron Paul and to a large extent Romney BOUGHT their votes. Neither one of them appeared at the conference — probably because they didn’t want their speech and attendance compared with Sarah (a good decision given her reception and the excitement she generated with her speech and personally).
Don’t be like the media and try to read anything into it other than he who buys the most votes wins (remember ACORN in the real world).
Actually, it took me a while to post, so I didn’t see that votes were bought. I was reluctant to make my post, because I knew it involved a pretty big assumption, the whole patriarchal thing, but that suspicion is not based on what I would like to believe as the media operates on what they want to believe. Not going to try and defend what I said, but the suspicion is made real by what anyone can observe in trends among southern political activists and their groups. They tend to vote for candidates that are more qualified to be pastors than Presidents. Speaking as someone who is going to attend a church tomorrow morning where women cannot be pastors, I am not trying to slam anyone on that grounds. I just think that it is ridiculous when the South his a long history of trying to get Presidents elected who have no other qualifications other than perhaps the notion that some divine finger will descend from the heavens to endow them with the knowledge and expertise they require. LOL!