The people that were cheering for Huckabee were the same ones cheering for the rest of the neo-conservatives.

Guess we now know who Fox News is rooting for!! Huckabee supporters, you should be just as upset with this!!

Does anyone know how many votes were cast as of the first count? If not, can someone do the math to figure it out?

It’s possible that both sets of numbers are valid. I’m sure we Paul voters were watching intently and all voted in the first 20 minutes, whereas the others could have trickled in.

why won’t Ron Paul, himself, make it the signature issue of his campaign? Why won’t he settle on 3 or 4 key issues and give his campaign some focus and meaning for ordinary voters who aren’t really into strict constitutionalism and don’t know what it means anyway?

He pretty much has. What have you ever heard him talk about at a big forum?
- War
- IRS
- Monetary Policy
- Civil Liberties

But aside from that, he’s not a typical candidate and he doesn’t want to act like one. He’s not just taking random positions on issues that he will later justify. Instead, he needs to teach everyone what it means to be a strict constitutionalist and you basically do that by ending every answer with “…because that’s what the constitution says”

By the time the primaries roll around, I promise you everyone will know that Ron Paul “gets his marching orders from the Constitution.” :-)

I simply don’t understand what the RP campaign is doing. They have him all over the country when he should be focusing on Iowa and New Hampshire.

It’s still early, Rob. If he spent even half of the next five months in IA and NH, they’d get sick of him. So instead, they spend most of their time traveling the country and raising fund. Then come December, they’ll switch gears and talk to the early states.

Trust them… they’re pros. We just need to focus on doing whatever we can to supplement what they’re doing.

There are so many things I would rather see Ron Paul do as President rather than Hillary, and Ron Paul is the only candidate they cannot use the War issue to win, because thats all they got is the War and Ron Paul has the higher moral ground because unlike Hillary, Edwards etc, Ron Paul voted against the war. So you are wasting your vote by voting for any Republican War Candidate, they will get Crushed In November.

Huckabee initiated the exchange (and probably planned it well ahead of time), but Paul benefits as well. In fact, Paul may benefit more than Huckabee because he is taking the anti-war position and the war is very, very unpopular in New Hampshire even among Republicans. Now, many more people know RP’s position on the war than did before and it’s being spread around the MSM.

Now, why won’t Ron Paul, himself, make it the signature issue of his campaign? Why won’t he settle on 3 or 4 key issues and give his campaign some focus and meaning for ordinary voters who aren’t really into strict constitutionalism and don’t know what it means anyway?

And why doesn’t he focus his campaign on Iowa and New Hampshire where a majority of Republicans are against the war and he’s the only candidate against 8 others who support it?

I simply don’t understand what the RP campaign is doing. They have him all over the country when he should be focusing on Iowa and New Hampshire.

Confounding critics who deride his international policy approach as naïve or simplistic, the prestigious Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, D.C., has invited Ron Paul to make a keynote policy address on September 11.

Ron Paul will be speaking on “A Tradtional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy” – topic that has likely languished in most US international schools and think tanks in the modern era. Says one source close privy to the negotiations surrounding the invitation, “This school is engaged in a 20th century, interventionist, foreign policy approach. For them to invite him to make a major address like this shows how seriously his views are being taken by the educational establishment and by the political establishment in general,”

And he adds, “This election has come down to Ron Paul versus the rest of the Republican candidates. He has set the party on its ear, and anyone who thinks that he is a so-called fringe candidate at this point is not grasping reality.”

The announcement reads as follows:

“A Traditional Non-Intervention Foreign Policy”
11 a.m. to Noon – Kenney Auditorium, Nitze Building
Ron Paul, Republican congressman and 2008 presidential candidate, will discuss this topic. For more information and to RSVP, contact cpfr@jhu.edu or 202.587.3237. Media who want to cover this event should register with Felisa Neuringer Klubes in the SAIS Communications Office at 202.663.5626 or fklubes@jhu.edu…”

Original text vote results:
Paul 33%
Huckabee 18%
Guiliani 15%
Romney 12%
results posted on http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,272493,00.html

Romney 29%
Paul 25%
Guiliani 19%
Huckabee 8%
total votes cast : 40,000

Guess we now know who Fox News is rooting for!! Huckabee supporters, you should be just as upset with this!!

I share much of your animosity towards those in a position of influence that ignorantly dismiss Dr. Paul, but we, as an extension of his campaign, have to remember what’s at stake.

The last thing we can afford to do is make our job harder by showing a lack of decorum. If we wish to be seen as an intellectual reform movement, we need to be Jackie Robinson-esque in our restraint.

Otherwise, we’ll simply feed into the myth that we’re a bunch of crybaby crackpots.

& Ron Paul doubled up the second place finisher in Fox’s post-debate poll.

Hannity needs to begin practicing dropping his pants in support of Ron illegalizing the IRS, NAFTA, CAFTA, warrantless phone searches, hidden torture prisons, FED RES bailouts, Republican party hacks whoring the Democratic agenda, hookers, hot tubs, & borrowing $2,000,000,000 a day from Communist China in support of big government Republican style…etc, etc.

I look forward to seeing Mr. Hannity’s fanny waving around in a true conservative’s wind farting in his face…

I couldn’t believe the words that were coming out of Huckabee’s mouth. We broke it so we buy it? Since when did an entire country full of people become a piece of property? What if they DON’T want us to “buy” them?

To me a better analogy would go like this:

I think you’re about to hurt me so I attack you and now in serious medical trouble.

I feel bad so I try to get you better. After years of trying to “fix” you, you’re not getting any better – actually it’s possible the treatment I’m giving you is making you worse.

You get tired of me trying to help while making things worse, and say: JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!

No, I won’t leave you alone, I’ll keep “fixing” you to save my “honor.” I’m so honorable that I’m going to ignore your pleas, ignore the fact that my “fixing” is making things worse, and continue dictating your life.

Some honor.

“President Paul” – get used to it.