Ron Paul even being in the top 5 made a joke of the whole event.
Ever puase to find out why? What does he say that gets a hard core to continue to support him?
Instead of smearing him you might listen and try to find out what others among his auditors hear. And no, I don' believe Ron Paul is going to be President, nor does he. But you should try listening to what he has to say because either he is extremely dangerous, or else he is making sense to a lot of people despite all the efforts to label him as a nut case.
...The RINOS, NEOCONS and the GOP have been a joke for the last 40 years. And shill Limbaugh has been the Ringmaster of that circus...
Ron Paul nuttiness aside, there's a reason that a vast majority of his supporters are in the less than 30 college student demographic. Their other choices are supporting a tone deaf GOP who keeps re-electing big spending, corporate welfare statists that act much like democrats or listen to their professors and join the dark side of the extreme left hell bent on spending us into a marxist-socialist state. Either choice is viewed as a pretty dim future for them to live the American dream that preceding generations have enjoyed up to this point.
No, ultimately the joke is on the GOP because they are losing replacement support from the under 30 crowd at a rate faster than they are retaining existing membership. This is a recipe for self inflicted extinction over time.
The significance of Ron Paul is not his Presidential aspirations that simply won't endure against the current political backdrop. The significance is who he appeals to and why.
Of course, Paul is too old now to run for governor and still hope to be president. And Bachmann probably can't win statewide office, let alone national office.