Originally Posted by rebel23

1) he has ran in Republican primaries and unseated Republican congressmen to get the nomination for congress, he IS a Republican and has been elected 10 times as one to the US Congress, he is accepted as a Republican and has never had the whip withdrawn even when he rebelled in the 1990's, Newt Gingrich never disciplined him because he is a respected Republican with his own mind

2) Ron Paul's campaign has steadily built through the year, he will be the top fund raiser this quarter and has been half of the year. Romney is writing cheques to himself and Guiliani is working connected networks and employee's of corporations to get $2300 contributions, he will outraise both of them this quarter depending on what Mitt gives himself. Mitt's campaign would be broke without his own bank propping it up. many of the campaigns spend money like drunken sailors (an example of what they would do in Government perhaps) but Ron Paul adheres to his principles and spends frugally, he stays in motels and up until last week was travelling commercially. Romney has aired literally thousands of expensive TV ads all year in Iowa and NH and is being beaten in the official polls in Iowa by Mike Huckabee who until this quarter had not raised much at all.

Howard Dean was the official polling front runner who couldnt win Iowa and subsequently collapsed, Howard Dean raised money on the internet but no where near as much as Ron Paul and Ron Paul is yet to peak in the polls and still has a few weeks to go.

3) Except they're not winning elections they're losing elections like the US congress and if they have a pro-war nominee for President they will lose to the Democrat. Ron Paul is also attracting a lot of people to the party, so many have left and are disgusted but now they're coming back, democrats are switching for Paul, freedom unites people and so does Ron Paul's message