Ron Paul's Surge in Iowa Isn't a Fluke

[sailingaway]

http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2011/12/21/ron-pauls-surge-in-iowa-isnt-a-fluke

takeaway line:


To energize his campaign more, Paul is expected to be joined by his son, Sen. Rand Paul, around New Year's as he wraps up his campaign.

[FA.Hayek]

Santorum is surging? by how much?

[sailingaway]

Santorum is surging? by how much?

He had 10% in today's Rasmussen poll.

[muh_roads]

oh FFS, now we have to hear Santorum in the news?

[georgiaboy]

Take this one, all you Bailouting failures of government representatives in Congress and the White House:




"It would be a mistake to call an Iowa win by Paul irrelevant," said a Republican official closely monitoring the campaigns in Iowa.

...

The main reason: Voters in Iowa believe that Paul is the only candidate in the field with the authenticity to talk about the budget issues they are focused on. "The talk in Iowa is about spending, deficits, and debt, and Ron Paul has been talking about those issues for five years," said a key official closely monitoring the Iowa race that Paul now leads.

[muzzled dogg]

3 days of rand? That's all?

[ShaneEnochs]

I've actually seen many people on forums saying they're starting to lean toward Santorum. It's a very odd world we live in.

[bluesc]

I want to know who this "key official" is. We could use more open support from the Iowa GOP.

[FA.Hayek]

well, with Newt crashing, we need to keep santorum at bay before he emerges as the new anti-Romney

[gls]

I've actually seen many people on forums saying they're starting to lean toward Santorum. It's a very odd world we live in.

Who wouldn't want to support a guy who lost his last election by 18 percentage points?

[bluesc]

Who wouldn't want to support a guy who lost his last election by 18 percentage points?

It's the Republican circlejerk. They don't care that it would hand Obama a landslide victory. Meanwhile they call Paul "unelectable" because he would actually challenge Obama on the issues.

[FA.Hayek]

GOP is looking for someone right now to be the anti-Romney, they've been pushing Bachmann and Santorum hard, and I guess Santorum had started gaining in polls; Jan 3 can't come soon enough

[The Gold Standard]

Looks like we need a Santorum attack ad. Hell, we might as well make one for every possible candidate, even Palin and Trump, just to be ready. They are all going to get a media push at some point.