[marsh_of_mists]

When we were excluded in Iowa, the rest of the candidates had 600 bored supporters and our rally drew in 1200 very excited RP supporters. The media pretended it was because we offered free hot dogs.

When people show up in sizable numbers everywhere Dr. Paul appears, many traveling hundreds of miles, the GOP just ignores that appeal.


When Ron Paul visits Google, opposes their Net Neutrality stance, gets more attention and video replays in only three days at YouTube's Google presidential site, beating out McCain's video and Hitlery's despite theirs having been up for months, and has to hold a second packed fundraiser that night in Silicon Valley, everyone just pretends it doesn't mean anything.

When young people are excited all over the internet by RP's message, even in socialist bastions in places like Belgium and Germany where there are chapters of RP supporters, somehow, it just gets ignored.

Now, Ron Paul packs them in in a South Carolina event, raises $5000 for the local country GOP and makes everyone, including the formerly opposing county GOP chairman, feel like a winner with his message.

It's the spammers, you fool! It all go's back to the spammers!

[George W. Bush]

It's the spammers, you fool! It all go's back to the spammers!

LOL. My point on some of these threads is this: even if you don't like RP's message on Iraq, take a look at the rest of what he says, that liberty and principled small-government conservative message.

If you look at his speeches and videos, he spends a little time on Iraq and foreign policy. But the large majority of his time is spent on domestic issues, sounding classic conservative themes on economics, personal liberty, small-government.

I keep saying it: what is wrong with that message? Why can't all the Republican candidates run on that message?