35 Responses to “Ron Paul Gaining Speed”

1. Jeanette Doney on August 17th, 2007 1:09 am

   When you consider that Romney had to bus in voters and escort them while holding their hands to the voting booths for BOTH straw polls, Ron Paul is winning because the power of the internet is transforming into respectable numbers in the straw polls because Ron paul supporters are busing themselves to the polls which has cost Ron Paul cents to Romney’s dollars.

2. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 1:12 am

   haaa.

   The power to get peaople to motivate themselves is true inspiration.
   Grab the Ann Coulter Newsletter above, got lots of good stuff on this story.

3. Bob Dylan on August 17th, 2007 1:16 am

   Ron Paul, the ONLY Candidate for positive change in the America.

   A true man We the People can rally behind and be proud to call our leader!!

4. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 1:31 am

   Im proud to call him a neighbor, for dinner, over to watch tv.

   Much less the president.

   10 terms in congress is a good vote of confidence in a man’s character.

5. Bob Dylan on August 17th, 2007 1:45 am

   Thank you for this unbiased article on the respectable candidate Ron Paul.

   I find it sickening how the established press time and time again blatantly ignores this man. Simply because he stands against the same corrupt elitist who own the major news networks.

   We need more indepedent press, opening people’s minds to the reality outside the mind numbing boob-box.

   Peace,

   D.

6. Mitchell on August 17th, 2007 1:59 am

   We might just have Ron Paul VS any Dem.

7. NH on August 17th, 2007 2:42 am

   Well this blows the theory out of the water that he is polling 0-2% anyplace.

8. DefendTheConstitution on August 17th, 2007 2:42 am

   Thank you for reporting about Ron Paul in a fair way unlike most of the other media.

   In my view, he is the only electable GOP candidate, who can beat a Democrat in the general election with flawless voting record in 10 terms in Congress.

   What other GOP candidate is for a small government (proven by real action/votes not just empty campaign promises), for drastically less spending, and for the rule of law/Constitution?

   What other candidate is NOT for nation buildings?

   These are the core values of the main stream Republicans and some how were abandoned by other GOP polititians, specially Presidential Candidates, who are after special interests and are strongly for increasing the size, spendings and power of government to an astronomical level toward bankruptcy.

   Wake up America! We cannot continue this “Road to Serfdom”.

9. a patriot on August 17th, 2007 5:21 am

   Go Ron Paul - Dont forget his birthday is coming up - see his official website to send him a present

10. Flo on August 17th, 2007 9:12 am

    Ron Paul believes in Liberty
    The rest believe it’s ok to sell off your liberty to the highest bidder.
    You are becoming slaves to people who care less about you.

    Vote Ron Paul 2008

11. Jet on August 17th, 2007 10:00 am

    Excellent report. Thank you!

    C’mon, man, you’re a professional writer! I think they make grammar checkers now.

    “They’re going over there to get their stuff”
    LOL ;)

12. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 10:14 am

    ha
    It was late when I wrote it, the cat ate my homework, I missed my bus, I was sick.

13. Jet on August 17th, 2007 10:18 am

    ROFL sorry for being a putz

14. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 11:20 am

    I write alot on a mobile then dont get to doublecheck till I get to my office. Your not the first to call me out on my haste.

    :)

15. Clay Shentrup on August 17th, 2007 1:48 pm

    It would be awesome if you would host a straw poll using a hugely better voting method. Plurality (vote-for-one) voting simply doesn’t work when you have more than two candidates. This link explains why:

    http://rangevoting.org/LoseAll.html

    Range Voting fixes this nonsense, and counter-intuitively is even more resistant to strategic voting. Here’s what a sane poll looks like:

    http://polls.zoho.com/brokenladder/2008-u-s-presidential-straw-poll-using-range-voting

    Clay Shentrup, Ron Paul fanatic
    San Francisco, CA
    clay@electopia.org
    415.240.1973

16. Mark G on August 17th, 2007 1:54 pm

    Dr. Paul is the only choice for a retrun to a
    constituinal government, one envisioned by the founding fathers of this great nation. They all stated that the biggest threat to America is not a standing army, but the enemy within.

    Dr. Paul is the lone patriot amonst the rabble of enemies within. Spread the message wide and far, shout it from the mountaintops.

    Today we shake the walls of Jericho, today WE THE PEOPLE shall AWAKEN!!!!

17. Dan Libby on August 17th, 2007 2:17 pm

    Great article! Ron Paul is the real deal and I applaud news organizations that provide coverage of his campaign.

    I also invite all Ron Paul supporters to show your support at our online rally. We are building a giant mosaic, and the photos have already been used in the Ames Straw Poll Ad and other promotions. rally.ronpaulplanet.org

18. liberal for paul on August 17th, 2007 2:51 pm

    I am a liberal in 90% of issues, but I will vote for Ron Paul over any dem or left wing politician (except for Mike Gravel, who should be his running mate) because in so many ways he is apolitical and a man of peace, with no hypocrisy. I am sick of the democratic party (the republicans all make me wretch anyway, dont even go there!.) I support Ron Paul even though I come from a different ideological background, one which does not necessarily see the government as evil. I just cannot find his otherwise conservative views offensive because he is informed and shows humility and intelligence; the most I can do is disagree with him on some things. But he is no establishment tool and isn’t beholden to special interests, unlike Clinton, Obama, Romney, Giuliani, oh the list goes on and on…

19. Rubes on August 17th, 2007 3:00 pm

    Can anyone name any member of Congress who has a more consistently conservative voting record than Dr. Ron Paul? …….

    By conservative I mean pro-limited government, pro-fiscal responsibility, pro-personal accountability, pro-liberty, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-personal privacy, pro-private property and pro-American. Did I miss any conservative values? …..Anyone? …..Anyone?……..

20. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 4:49 pm

    “Great article! Ron Paul is the real deal and I applaud news organizations that provide coverage of his campaign.”

    Heck dont applaud us….

    Give us any links you can on any wesbites you can.

    We have been in the corner of all true conservatives…Paul, Hunter, Tancredo…since the start of the campaign season. Any links our readers can get up to our site only helps our conservative message grow.

    Thanks for the kind words.
    Vote right.

21. Eric Dondero on August 17th, 2007 7:57 pm

    Field Poll out of California yesterday, Ron Paul at 1% again. He was at 1% way back in March too.

    Statewide poll released out of Nevada this morning. Ron Paul at 1%.

    Ron Paul is way over-rated, and way over-hyped. Republicans aren’t buying his “Surrender First to Islamo-Fascism” foreign policy.

    I’m voting for Rudy.

    Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
    US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
    1997-2003

22. scott harmon on August 17th, 2007 8:42 pm

    Dondero:

    For someone who isn’t paying attention to Ron Paul, you’re sure surfing a lot of the sites.

    Paul or nothing.
    Just can’t get enthused about Guiliani, though the media wants me too SO BADLY.

23. TrafficBulldog on August 17th, 2007 8:54 pm

    From California!

    Go Ron Go!

    My independent vote will only go to you!

24. michaeljaeger on August 17th, 2007 8:58 pm

    “if he doesnt get the nod…” Are you kidding? I am not waiting for an approval so I can vote for Dr. Paul. I will Write his name on my ballot. Ron Paul will be the candidate I will vote for. I am not a herd animal waiting to see which candidate “they” say I can vote.

25. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 9:05 pm

    Thats your right.

    But thats what a primary is for. Paul could have run independent and this would be different, but there is a bad enough candidate on the DEM side (hillary), that I will vote republican for any candidate other than McCain.

    Well wait and see though. alot can change.

26. JR Morell on August 17th, 2007 9:19 pm

    Eric Dondero, still upset you were fired? Sour grapes?

27. Michael Kraft on August 17th, 2007 11:51 pm

    haaa. Thats funny

28. Reality Hammer on August 18th, 2007 12:11 am

    I worked on Paul’s 1996 campaign when he came back to the Republican Party. Sadly his scores on libertarian scorecards have actually been falling since 2000.

    I can’t support his isolationist foreign policy, either.

    There’s a reason that quirky candidates score higher in straw polls: it is a matter of who gets on the bus or who is motivated enough to vote in a meaningless forum.

    Needless to say the story should be how many people stayed home!

29. Trisha on August 18th, 2007 3:57 am

    You Don’t have to DONDERO(reality Hammer?).Since when is there competition when it comes to FREEDOM(a basic human right that has been stolen from us behind the smokescreen of terorrism and “safety:).Americans are waking up to the NWO agenda to control and monitor our every move and we don’t LIKE it.We are not slaves under Hitlers communism.That type of ideology was ling forgotten in the world mind(excluding the money/power hungry governmental global supremacists).I am about reality and not a conspiracy theorists.Anyone with a brain can plainly see our freedoms are being taken from us non chalantly.Anyone who loves Freedom can clearly see why we love Dr. Ron Paul.He is the voice crying in the wilderness and paving the way to world peace.

    Take football for instance,how easy is it for the opposition to plow through the defense and tackle the quarterback before he makes his move?The resitence prevents him from doing so.You have a good first line DEFENSE on your own turf and those behind the line are well protected.

    Force in football comes up against “equal resistence”(for the most part)and is equal,noone really accomplishes or “wins”.

    The goal is to peacefully RESIST(defense)so the man(QB) behind the protected lines has enough time to compose and implement his next move successfully without the probability of defeat.

    Ron Paul has it right.He is about a touch down.He is well collected and his ideologies and intelligence make him the man that our founding fathers would believe in as a viable and successful president.

    The American people are waking up and want to take America back.We deserve to be FREE,that is a HUMAN RIGHT.Ron Paul is our voice.

    Freedom first and all else falls into place.

30. chris lawton on August 18th, 2007 12:27 pm

    GO RON PAUL! GO RON PAUL! GOD BLESS RON PAUL!
    RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008!
    Ron Paul : When in the course of human events…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFfdB5OzlyQ

31. Kristen M. on August 18th, 2007 1:49 pm

    Ron Paul is NOT an Isolationist! When will folks get that through their heads? He wants free trade, commerce, and peace with all nations. That’s NOT an Isolationist Foreign Policy! He is a Non-Interventionist. That means he doesn’t want to intervene in the internal affairs of sovereign nations. There’s a BIG difference between the two positions. PLEASE stop trying to smear Ron Paul as an Isolationist when he just plain isn’t.

32. David on August 18th, 2007 1:57 pm

    “Eric Dondero wrote:Ron Paul is way over-rated, and way over-hyped. Republicans aren’t buying his “Surrender First to Islamo-Fascism” foreign policy.

    I’m voting for Rudy.

    Eric Dondero, Fmr. Senior Aide
    US Congressman Ron Paul (R-TX)
    1997-2003″

    I seriously doubt you are the real Dondero, and are just another internet liar instead, but I’ll address you as if you are. The real Dondero is a lick-spittle lackey of the Republican establishment that sold out his friends and principles in exchange for lapdog privileges and the promise of a few crumbs of power. You went over to the dark side, buster.

33. Eric Burke on August 18th, 2007 5:34 pm

    Ron Paul just won straw polls in Alabama and New Hampshire today by huge margins!

    Alabama:
    Tom Tancredo - 0 (0%)
    Sam Brownback - 2 (.75%)
    John McCain - 2 (.75%)
    Mike Huckabee - 6 (2%)
    Rudy Giuliani - 7 (3%)
    Fred Dalton Thompson - 9 (3%)
    Duncan Hunter - 10 (4%)
    Mitt Romney - 14 (5%)
    Ron Paul - 216 (81%)

    New Hampshire:
    Dr. Paul received 208 votes (73%) for a landslide victory against Mitt Romney today at the Strattford County, New Hampshire straw poll. Romney received 26 votes. Mike Huckabee came in third with 20 votes.

    Tancredo (8 votes), McCain (7 votes), Cox (5 votes), Hunter (5 votes), Thompson (5 votes), Giuliani (3 votes) and Brownback (1 vote) finished the field.

    —
    Ron Paul is electable in both the North and South, time for the rest of the Republican Party to come on board and support the only candidate that can beat the dems for the White House!

    eb

34. Brian Horsfield on August 21st, 2007 11:10 am

    Compilation of 12 Straw Poll Results for Ron Paul of so far:

    Firsts 5
    Seconds 2
    Thirds 2
    Fifth 1
    Last 2

    April 21, 2007, Greenville, SC ~ Last 0.24% (1/421)
    April 21, 2007, Spartanburg, SC ~ Last 0% (0/700)
    April 21, 2007, Richland, SC ~ Last 0% (0/126)
    June 16, 2007, LibertyPapers.org conference ~ 2nd 16.7% (NA)
    July 7, 2007, Concord, NH ~ 1st 61.9% (182/294)
    July 28, 2007, Georgetown, SC ~ 2nd 18% (40/223)
    August 4, 2007, St. Louis, MO ~ 3rd 14% (NA)
    August 11, 2007, Ames, IA ~ 5th 9.12% (1,305/14,302)
    August 13, 2007, Gaston, NC ~ 1st 36.6% (NA)
    August 17, 2007, Springfield, IL ~ 3rd 18.87% (174/922)
    August 18, 2007, Stafford, NH ~ 1st 72.7% (208/286)
    August 18, 2007, West Alabama ~ 1st 81.2% (216/266)

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