Ron Paul's biggest obstacle is that he has far more common sense than then average, self-centered & short-term focused American. He actually thinks and talks in complete thoughts. Sadly, that makes him unelectable in our selfish, soundbite culture.

Finally, a reporter who actually covers something interesting and having to do with changing our country for the better. You'll be considered a patriot for many years.

people shouldnt let the media decide who the next presidentis. Dont be lazy. Get online and read EVERYONE'S platform. Go to discussion groups and see what others are saying. Get informed. This is the 3rd "internet" election where information is readily available to the masses. If you dont like Ron Paul at least know what he stands for because you went to his site.

Yes, it is probable that Ron Paul has added staffers in the past few days, and may have up to 30 in Iowa. In October, Obama had 145 paid staffers in Iowa, Edwards had 130 and Clinton had 117 and all have probably increased their numbers. I don't know about the other Republicans, and wish you would report on the staffing, spending, and funding source(s) of all of the candidates. Thank you

Ron Paul's organization may not be as big or slick as that of others, yet if Paul has a chance, it will be because the people catch fire for Liberty. Paul had no organization to raise 19 million either, or to raise a Blimp, but the people accomplished it all. The same must happen for him to do well in Iowa. No bus will pick you up...you must make the trek yourself Iowan, for Liberty, and for Ron Paul.

He is Mainstream and the News Mafia had better get out of our way.

RON PAUL 2008

Well, that was a breath of fresh air. It wasn't even a smear article. Just good old reporting that included real information.

Thank you.

I voted for Bush twice. This election I am either voting for Ron Paul if he makes it on the ticket.If not, I will vote for Obama. Everyone else is no different than what we have. Wake up America. Please

Can Paul Go mainstream? Can birds fly? I am a 30 year old engineer with a wife and child. I would think I am pretty mainstream and I wholeheartedly support Dr. Paul. Nuff said.

I have carefully avoided becoming familiar with Ron Paul. Time is valuable and he is so unelectable that there is no reason to be aware of his thinking. I thought a lot about Ralph Nader and it was always a waste of time.

Ron Paul is mainstream...just not mainstream media.

Thank you very much for your positive comments regarding Dr. Paul. They were a breath of fresh air!

Heck yes, Dr. Paul can do anything. He has not become mainstream as he already was mainstream-the media just did not notice it until now. What a flashback-to the time of Goldwater and forty-four years ago.

Reporter Jason George quotes as his expert on Iowa Republicans one Professor David Redlawsk. True to DNC Swamp law, Mr. Redlawsk is a Democrat activist who's contributed big bucks to (among other Dems) John Edwards and Tom Harkin.

The DNC Swamp reporters can't seem to find an "expert" who isn't part of the 1/10th of 1 percent of Americans who are Dem Party uber-activists. But this can't be bias. Must just be a zillion-to-one coincidence...

"Ron Paul is mainstream...just not mainstream media."

Sadly, this is absolutely true.

Ron Paul received contributions from over 100,000 different people this quarter. He received $18,000,000 from those 100,000 people. His support is wide and deep. Look around your town and notice you see RP signs everywhere. Grab a cup of coffee and go to http://freeme.tv

My wife and I are in our mid 50's. I am degreed in Politcal Science and Economics, but I haven't voted since the late 90's. I donated $100 December 16th to Ron Paul. I've printed out a stack of Ron Paul brochures and am attending a "meet up" group tonight at the Farmers Market. I've never done anything like this in the past, but this is so fun!!!

I think I am main stream.

I am a college graduate, on the board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce and a half dozen charitable organizations and served more than 10 years as Director of Marketing for a Fortune 100 company.

I am rgistered and voting for Ron Paul. Join the "Smart Revolution"!

Wow C. Perry...that's just fantastic reasoning. How's the sand anyhow? While you're busy with your head burried, the rest of us will try to repair the hell-hole this nation has become by voting for the one candidate who stands for something other than pandering.

Enjoy voting for the lesser of two evils again this season - it'll still be a vote for an evil. The only reason he'll be unelectable is because of chuckleheads like yourself.

"IF you believe the polls" is the key phrase in the article.

thats funny, they haven't been that reliable in the past for anything I'm not sure why now they are the gospel.

Let the people vote and find out, all these anti opinion pieces empower the campaign.

http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/

"I have carefully avoided becoming familiar with Ron Paul. Time is valuable and he is so unelectable that there is no reason to be aware of his thinking."

Ah, a call to ignorance - great strategy.

If you've 'carefully avoided' learning anything about this great American and statesman, how are you certain he's unelectable?

Time is indeed valuable but isn't the future of our country worth the 15-20 minutes it takes to research Dr. Paul's deeply principled and steadfast voting record in congress when the heavy lifting has already been done for you?

Try a little honesty. Advance the reasons why you support a different candidate instead of running around advising Americans to put on blinders this election for the benefit of your candidate.

America is waking up, realizing that it is not Government that makes us great it's the liberty of the people. Ron Paul sees our current Federal government as it is, a sort of parasite living on our collective backs pretending to protect and serve. Ron Paul knows that a constitutional government serves a critical purpose in our society and that without that function there is no America...We are beginning to understand just how far away from that function the Federal government has strayed. He is correct in saying we have become a nanny state that polices the world. I don't think there is an argument about that so much as there are people that believe that is a good plan and those of us who don't...Ron Paul is Hope for America. If a married 30 year old hard working professional with 3 small boys and a mortgage isn't part of the mainstream then who is?

"Imagine a pair of Ron Paul supporters and it’s doubtful that Carl and Leslie Bockenstedt come to mind: The couple is married, middle-aged and Mormon, and neither knows much about MySpace."

My wife and I are middle-aged, Mormon, and Co-Chairs for the Page County (Iowa) Ron Paul campaign. Oh, and I am also a family physician, chief of staff at our local hospital, the father of two school-aged children, and the reluctant owner of two spoiled cats. I guess WE don't come to mind either when you try to pigeon-hole Ron Paul supporters.

By the way, I am NOT a "paulite" and would request that you stop using the term. That is unless and until you start referring to our opponents as "McCainites", Giulianitards", and "Huckabozos". Thank you for your time.

Great piece. I was at a party last night that covered the whole political spectrum. The name on everyone's lips? You guessed it! Young, old, radical, conservative, Dem, Rep and Green were talking of voting for the Good Doctor. Whether he gets the nomination or not, his words are inspiring a groundswell. This will leave America a fighting chance for survival against the gangsters in Washington.

Great article!! Thank you for the straight up reporting.

-A Ron Paul Supporter

Ron Paul is not mainstream or electable if people don't think he is. It's all perception. There is a guy that I work with that won't even look into him because he thinks he's "too extreme, or too good" to get elected. It's like speaking it into being.

I think its funny how this article starts out talking about a main stream middle aged mormon couple that know little about the internet and love Ron Paul and then asked if Ron Paul can appeal to the main stream. I think you have your answer.

Thank You for a fair story.

Add two more "mainstream" Paulites to the list. I'm a 29-year old, former, die-hard conservative and my wife's a 29-year old, apathetic liberal...and we're both voting for Ron Paul in the Ohio primary.

Fair artical, thanks. Wish I was a bright-eyed cllege student but alas, I am just a soon to be middle -aged man completely fed up with politics as usual. I switched parties after a life time so that I can vote for Ron Paul.

HI, Thanks DR. No RON PAUL will win because the TRUTH will.

I am more than intrigued by Ron Paul, but wonder how he will respond to Bhutto's death. This moment may well determine if he is my candidate. How safe will my children be under his noninterventionist policies in this world of terrorism?

Here's some of what Ron Paul was writing in his newsletter in the 80s and 90s:

"Regardless of what the media tell us, most white Americans are not going to believe that they are at fault for what blacks have done to cities across America. The professional blacks may have cowed the elites, but good sense survives at the grass roots. Many more are going to have difficultly avoiding the belief that our country is being destroyed by a group of actual and potential terrorists -- and they can be identified by the color of their skin. This conclusion may not be entirely fair, but it is, for many, entirely unavoidable.

"Indeed, it is shocking to consider the uniformity of opinion among blacks in this country. Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5% of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty, and the end of welfare and affirmative action.... Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the "criminal justice system," I think we can safely assume that 95% of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal.

"If similar in-depth studies were conducted in other major cities, who doubts that similar results would be produced? We are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, but it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings, and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.

"Perhaps the L.A. experience should not be surprising. The riots, burning, looting, and murders are only a continuation of 30 years of racial politics.The looting in L.A. was the welfare state without the voting booth. The elite have sent one message to black America for 30 years: you are entitled to something for nothing. That's what blacks got on the streets of L.A. for three days in April. Only they didn't ask their Congressmen to arrange the transfer.

So I won't be voting for the bigot, no matter what he promises.

For all the media focus on his more unusual positions and his Internet supporters, Ron Paul has more mainstream appeal than any other candidate:

He is the only candidate on the mainstream side of all these issues:

Against the Iraq war.
For smaller government.
Against illegal immigration.
For lower taxes.
For a balanced budget.
For civil liberties.
For the Constitution.

Think about it. Can you say the same about any other Republican or Democratic presidential candidate? You can't.

On top of that, he's got more integrity than Americans have ever seen in a presidential candidate before, and a decades-long record of consistency the other candidates would give all the high-priced campaign consultants in the world for.

I think one of the most "telling signs" in your article were the carpools and buses set up for carrying voters to the caucuses. Ron Paul supporters will be there-- regardless! Several weeks ago when all other candidates' rallies were shut down due to ice, who showed up and did not cancel? Ron Paul supporters! Watch for it again!

Cheryl,

The newsletter racism smear was discredited months ago. The words weren't written by Ron Paul, and appeared in his newsletter without his approval. He has apologized for them.

More importantly, the words are directly at odds with his philosophy of liberty for all, and totally out of step with his decades long record of published writings. Search his Congressional site. Search RonPaulLibrary.org.

The New York Times dismissed the issue many months ago, concluding the words and the phrasing were totally out of step with anything ever written by Ron Paul.

Who in the mainsteam media will have the stones to see what is developing and will be able to later claim "I was one of the ones that called it first?"

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True to DNC Swamp law, Mr. Redlawsk is a Democrat activist who's contributed big bucks to (among other Dems) John Edwards and Tom Harkin.

Posted by: Bruce | December 27, 2007 10:06 AM
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According to Opensecrets.org, Professor David Redlawsk has given $2900 to Democratic politicians in the past 5 years. This is what Bruce consiers "big bucks".

Vote
Can Presidential Candidate Ron Paul go mainstream?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1379

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Ron Paul 08, here's another vote! Wake up people.

I am a married mother of 4 boys, all of whom I homeschool. I voted for Bush twice. I am very thankful to Dr Paul for waking me up to politics and showing me that there is another way besides the corrupt way that has been going on for decades. My husband and I have become politically active because of Dr Paul and will stay active so that we can take our government back - which is how it's supposed to be - By the People, For the People. Ron Paul gives us all hope for change. Finally.

Thank you for writing such an unbiased article. Other journalists could learn a thing or two from you.

Gosh, isn't it just amazing that average Americans could support the U.S. Constitution? How utterly shocking that people with full-time jobs and families actually support the founding philosophy of this country.

And to think that some supporters of the Constitution -- Patriots, they're called -- have accomplished so much of this using innovative online techniques.

In truth, all any of us need to do is to read the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. For it is not just Dr. Paul per se that we support, but the message of those documents that he has championed unwaveringly through the years.

Ron Paul is a national treasure for apparently being the only consistent supporter of the Constitution in the entire federal government. Every moment he is on the public stage, he inspires everyday Americans and terrifies the corrupt political establishment.

We should be so lucky to have him as President.

How can you possibly be a "spoiler" in the primary/caucus process?

Mainstream media is dead. They are out of touch with reality and the people know it.

Thank god for the internet.

Snalg, I would not so quickly dismiss Ron Paul because he is too full of common sense. I think Ron Paul appeals to the common American, even though the MSM would like to dumb us down and make us think that we're hopeless. We the people, are the ones with the power!

RON PAUL is up to double digits at 10% in your mainstream polls, AND nobody has covered the story yet that there are WAVES of newly Registered Republicans across the nation who aren't getting phone calls in a 600 person sample size national poll. All I have to do is look out my window, look on the streets, and listen to my conscience. RON PAUL is leading. Here are some interesting points: the only candidate who can beat the democrats is RON PAUL. If he doesn't get the nomination as the Republican candidate, I suppose there is a slight possibility of a third party campaign. However, conservatives know, this would take from the conservative vote, leaving plenty of room for any of the top three democrats to defeat any of the republican candidates (Check the Top 3 dems VS any REP in mainstream polls) The only exception is RON PAUL. So bottom line: Its either RON PAUL or one of the three democrats. So the real question is; IS THE MEDIA READY FOR RON PAUL TO GO MAINSTREAM? lol!

A "spoiler"?

For whom? The people that vote in the primary for him?

He's real, he's got the people in the ground, and he has the money to go the distance. In fact, he probably has more money than some of the candidates Fox News, MSNBC and CNN are trying to shove down our throat.

He's no "spoiler" for anybody except for the idiots that want continued war and overspending overseas. The big surprise is most people don't want that. So he's no "spoiler" at all, he is simply, "The one that people want."

This is Iowa, come on, of course Ron Paul CAN and WILL win. My parents live in liberal Northern California and they tell me there are dozens of signs all over town in support of Ron Paul, and not a single one for any other candidate, Republican or Democrat.

130 paid staffers or 30 paid staffers, it doesn't matter. What counts in the end is voters willing to get out on a cold January night to vote for a candidate. Ron Paul's supporters are super-motivated and will pull off a peaceful freedom-loving coup.

RP will get a strong third, at the worst, in Iowa.

That means he will soundly beat Ghouliani, McCain, and Thompson, and discredit the pollsters.

To those of you who have doubts about Ron Paul: If you don't like Dr. Paul, fine. Don't vote for the person, vote for the Constitution. Look at the voting record of all the candidates. Look how many times each candidate referred to the Constitution and voted according to the Constitution. Watch the debates and see if there is any candidate who always goes back to the Constitution when it comes to domestic and foreign policy issues.

Then, if you are real Americans, vote for what defines these United States as a political entity: The Constitution of the United States. It is that simple.

Houston for Ron Paul!

I have carefully avoided becoming familiar with Ron Paul. Time is valuable and he is so unelectable that "there is no reason to be aware of his thinking. I thought a lot about Ralph Nader and it was always a waste of time.

Posted by: c. perry | December 27, 2007 9:50 AM "

Umm. Wow. Please stay home on election night.

Jeebus, that's the most incredible thing I've read in a long time.

I pray most Americans aren't like you.

Go Ron Paul!

Where is the apathy folks? I thought one vote didn't matter. Once people see Paul as president they will see things can change for the better if more people would become involved. I live in Indiana and for the first time have donated to a candidate. Bumper stickers and yard sign for me.

Cheryl:

That article was written by Eric Dondero, a Ron Paul staffer who Paul immediately fired after that article was printed in the Ron Paul newsletter.

Get your facts straight Cheryl.

Here is another "main stream" Paul supporter. I am a 39 year old Platoon Sgt in the US Army, my wife is a 34 year old UCC minister. While I do play World of Warcraft, I'm not what you call "internet-savey". I have to wonder what Ron Paul being a spoiler is all about? Is it that he might get more votes than the media says he should?

Come out to Rand and Palatine @ noon in Arl Hts on 12.29.07.

Watch alot of citizens of Illinois self organize for the message Ron Paul is speaking up about.
All types of folks, from all walks of life. Just showing up to say we believe in the message to our fellow Americans. Comming together in peace is what Ron Paul Brings.

We are tired of endless War, Torture, Deficts, and inflation.

Mitt cries, Huck insults religion by using it as a campaign slogan, Rudy remains sick, Tancredo quits, Fred sleeps and Ron Paul raises $6 million dollars in one day. Except for Dr. Paul, "[t]here's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas, banning books like America Deceived (book) from Amazon, warrant-less wiretapping and the PATRIOT ACT. They are both guilty of treason.
Time to take sides, fellow patriots, you're either for liberty and Support Dr. Ron Paul or you're against liberty and damn us all.
Final link (before Stark County DIstrict Library bends to pressure and drops the book):

Dr. Ron Paul is mainstream!

www.aLoveLetterToAmerica.com

I voted for Bush twice and plan to vote for Paul or Romney.

Where have thes people been? on another planet it seems.
Guess what? Paul is the main "stream" on the new media.
The Old media is just now wondering if he's mainstream.
C'mon MSM get with the new century.

The power of the people will be felt in the upcoming months. Ron Paul has my family's vote along with most of my friends. These are people who don't normally vote. They will now. I'm in SC and hear a good bit about him. I think he is even stronger in the upstate. Dr. Paul has my full support. First time I have ever donated to a campaign and also bought a t-shirt and some bumper stickers. I am so excited about this election. It is time to take our country back from those who wish to profit off the people at the people's risk.

I'm big into Dr. Paul... but... I'm still waiting for him to clarify his stance on Gun Prohibition. With the recent mall and church shootings we can ill afford to place another gun nut in office.
The preceding bogus comment was funded by the good people at the CFR, working to brainwash the citizenry for a better tomorrow... for us.

Thanks for the article. I am a husband and father of two in my late 20's. Ron has finally said what I have been waiting for and we are out in force here in TN. We inform people daily about the revoulution. Count Ron for 2 more votes.

Some of these posts are not like the others, Some of these posts are not the same, If I have to make a distinction, Cheryl, Ellen, Dianne work for NSA.
Please sing to the old sesame street tune.

I am a 74 year old retired profesional who has little to gain from Dr. Ron Paul's election except increased liberty and respect for our government, respect which has been missing for decades.

And to be honest, in addition, more of my own money remaining in my pocket as a result of reduced taxes and lessened inflation. Retirement will be much less fearful if I know that my money will retain its purchasing power.

Nice to read facts instead of smears. Rare in this day and age.

Great Article--Great lead, Substantive, interesting, full of actual, factual reporting and nice twist at the end. After seeing so much poor journalism of late, this is a breath of fresh air.

Thank you for posting such a positive article about Ron Paul. I appreciate the fact that you centered the story around a "normal" Iowa family that is obviously representative of a large portion of Americans. Ron Paul's message is genuinely powerful and it spreads from person to person, from a couple like Mr & Mrs Bockenstedt telling their friends, to a journalist like Jason George telling his readers.

The Paul campaign still faces long odds. Most other campaigns organized statewide months ago and now have carpools and buses ready to ferry people to the caucuses. The Paul campaign has no such plan.

Luckily the Paul campaign does not NEED such a plan, thanks to the beauty of the self-organizing nature of free-willed individuals.

Only "traditional campaigns" that are centrally controlled have to rely on such top-down hierarchical structures.

Speaking of top-down hierarchical structures... who sent you the 'time to call Ron Paul a spoiler' memo? (Normally I'd use Google news search to follow the idea path, but with so many articles on the net about Dr. Paul, the originator may be safely hid in the past.)

Anyway, keep up the good work, the more you folks smear, the more people can see for themselves the evil that calls itself the MSM.

Ron Paul was being interviewed on CNN just now. Isn't that the mainstream?

Re:

"Perhaps the L.A. experience should not be surprising..."

Hey, the truth hurts!
I live in L.A. and this is a pretty fair assessment.
The Illegal Aliens got their share too! The armed Korean shopkeepers did O.K. fending off the looters. Coming to a city near you if McCain, Romney or Huckabee get elected.

GREAT article!

coherent, unbiased and very easy to read. really appreciate your effort to provide valuable analysis of the '08 campaign.

keep up the great work mr. george!

Perhaps some disabled RP supporters could catch a ride to the polls on one of those courtesy buses. How'd that be?

Ron Paul a "spoiler"?

Ah, well, a little ointment spoils the whole jar of flies . . . or something like that.

While I'm anything but 'mainstream', my mother and sister on the other side of the country certainly are. I was pleasantly surprised last month to find that even they support Ron Paul.

Ellen - "How safe will my children be under his 'non-interventionist poliices' in this world of terrorism?"

That's the wrong assumption and question. You're assuming that having our military maintain an empire around the world will make our country safer. Terrorism is a tactic - not the enemy. Is the enemy the Sunnis... the Shiias... the Kurds... 'Al-Qaeda' (whoever they are)? What is the definition of 'winning the war' or the 'surge working?' How do we know when we've 'won the war?'

This doesn't make sense: We were attacked in a guerilla-like fashion on 9/11, but we've sent over 100,000 conventional forces halfway around the world to 'fight terror.' I supported the war at first, but the more I think about it, the more it makes little to no sense. Think about this: Why are we 'fighting terrorism' in the Middle East but our southern border with Mexico is all but wide open?!

Don't just blindly support any policy because some politician has an "R" or a "D" behind their name. I've seen enough from this President - I can't continue to blindly support his 'Forever War on Terror.' Ron Paul is correct - this war is bankrupting our country if we're not already financially bankrupt. Look at the value of the US Dollar drop like a stone on foreign currency markets.

No smears? No "fringe candidate"? No "Dark horse"? No "bigot", "isolationist", or "extremist"???

I would subscribe to your paper, but because I'm overseas right now, I'll donate your yearly subscription rate to the Ron Paul Blimp.

Thank you!

This is to Cheryl and the regurgitated smear that already has been debunked months ago by several different sources.

First, I doubt if a racist bigot would say that Dr. Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks are two of his personal heros. I also doubt if a racist bigot would even consider an African American as a running mate...but Ron Paul has mentioned that he would like to have Walter Block consider the position of VP.

Additionally, read this, does this sound like the words of a racist?

"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans only as members of groups and never as individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike; as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their intense focus on race is inherently racist, because it views individuals only as members of racial groups.

Conservatives and libertarians should fight back and challenge the myth that collectivist liberals care more about racism. Modern liberalism, however, well-intentioned, is a byproduct of the same collectivist thinking that characterizes racism. The continued insistence on group thinking only inflames racial tensions.

The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity. In a free market, businesses that discriminate lose customers, goodwill, and valuable employees- while rational businesses flourish by choosing the most qualified employees and selling to all willing buyers. More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct what is essentially a sin of the heart, we should understand that reducing racism requires a shift from group thinking to an emphasis on individualism."

Good Story, thanks.

I am 45, married for 20 years, two kids in college, self employed and I am a patriotic American. I have never felt represented by my government, voted third party many times and the lesser of two evils on occasion. It has been clear to me that the dems and repubs for the most part were two side of the same coin.

I like some of the other posters have never participated in a campaign, donated money, joined a meetup, talked to people on the street, gone to rallies, send out e-mails to my friends and family etc. Until Ron Paul.

Finally somebody who is honest and is talking about the core issues that our county faces, somebody that doesn't try to dumb down to the lowest sound bite but instead leads average folk to a trail head and encourages then to search down the trail for the truth.

I ran into Ron Paul's name while researching how the federal reserve works, how the US banking system works, what constitutional income is, what is the Council on Foreign Relations and what are there goals for the US. I was also researching the truth about how the government hides the deficit, raids the trust funds and manipulates the CPI and other numbers in an attempt to say inflation isn't as bad as it really is. How can they spend money the don't have?

I do research for a living so this stuff was easy and I was diligent in my studies and Ron Paul's name kept coming up. So I started looking into him and saw a video or two and sort of poo pooed it as typical propaganda but I continued to research because I was impressed with what I heard. I read a bunch of stuff on the congressional archives and looked up his voting record and what do you know a "politician" that practices what he preaches!! Amazing. After I watched the full video of Ron Paul on Patriotism http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5792391565012624048 I knew I had to support this man with all I could muster as this is likely a once in a lifetime candidate I mean I am 45.

If the "mainstream" had any TRUE inkling of the undying dedication and innovation of Ron Paul's supporters, the term "spoiler" would not be bandied about so lightly or so frequently.

We've already proven this dedication with our [historical] donations and we will continue to prove it with our [historical] votes at the primaries.

We are like starving people in the desert that have finally come upon not just crumbs of bread and a puddle of dirty water, but a bountiful feast of plenty. And we're not about to let it go easily. We will fight for freedom and liberty and we will fight for Ron Paul to become President.

Never underestimate the power of truth and the messenger of truth to bring masses of people together like this election has like never before. And we fully intend to win.

Well said Republicae!!!!

The Albany, NY meetup group wrote lots of letters to Iowans. We hope personal and heartfelt efforts like this will make up for a lack of orderliness. Iowa-- please send the doubters a wake up call this Tuesday and vote for Ron Paul!

I just read another very fair story about the committment and creativity of Ron Paul volunteers in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Like this story, it presented the views of those who support Congressman Paul fairly and the writer and/or editors seem to have picked up on the fact that we might have "quite an interesting story here."

Good journalism. Thanks!

Bill Rice

Is Ron Paul WHAT?? electable you say? well, does a bear sh** in the woods?

It's nice to see a fair and balanced look at the Paul campaign. I think the MSM might actually be standing down now.

I'm a 38 year old lifetime Republican and mom to 3; my husband is a surgeon. How more mainstream is that?

Thanks for the nice article.

We're here. We exist. Yes, the polls are wrong. Yes, we will get off of the internet and we will vote and become delegates. Yes... how much louder do we have to be?

YES, we exist in large numbers and we're having so much fun!

And yes, we're going to deliver our states to Ron Paul.

To Cheryl: here's the source of the "Ron Paul is a bigot" campaign against Ron Paul:

http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=491696055385152495&q=jtf+ron+paul&total=8&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=1

It's all coming from the radical zionists.

I say radical because Ron Paul has support from:

www.zionistsforronpaul.blogspot.com and www.jews4ronpaul.org and there's also a "blacks for Paul" but I don't know the address.

Also, look at the people represented here as Ron Paul supporters: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqGSfmQV11w&feature=related

When these articles say that "Ron Paul has a staff of only 30" do they take into consideration that for each paid staff member, hundreds of Meet-up volunteers are working behind the scenes FOR FREE! That is the kind on support Dr Paul has EARNED based on how he has conducted both his personal and professional life. Can any other candidate make that claim?

Go Ron Go!

www.ronpaul2008.com

Here is a link to a pole you may find interesting.

http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2007/12/21/straw-poll-dec-21-jan-4/297#comments