I was as upset as the rest of you, but a third place finish is good. If we finish second in New Hampshire, it will be looked at as an improvement. They only won by 3 percent, that is nothing. 3 percent? Plus they are not mentioning his name, people will notice that who are watching TV.
The game is changed now and this is what I see happening:
1. I think many progressives and democrats will look at Santorum and get a little freaked out. Perhaps they will feel bad for attacking Ron Paul who agrees with them on more issues than any other candidate. Santorum has that face of your typical country club neocon self loving jerk, and liberals hate him more than anyone. They will destroy him quickly and swiftly. He will be destroyed anyway because he will not finish first or second in NH. Has anyone ever finished third in New Hampshire and ended up being nominee?
2. They have no more bullets to use against Ron Paul, they have used up whatever they could and his support is not dropping. Now the only place he will go is up.
3. Santorum is obviously their weak last resort. They have no more candidates to artificially push. Santorum will fall extremely quickly believe me. It will be obvious then that the race is between Romney and Dr. Paul
4. Google trends definitely tells you something, Ron Paul overtook everyone by a huge margin and is maintaining the lead in Google trends. Santorum will get a boost now for a short time, but that is just people googling him and getting freaked out when they see his actual positions and record. I can tell you right now that most people have no clue what Santorum stands for (I am in Nevada)
5. The entire world is on the brink of collapse, if the economy starts to take bigger hits, or we end up in another conflict Ron Paul will surge. 2012 does not look good...Euro will not survive much longer...some people say March.
Look, we have to get a hold of ourselves. The media attack on Ron Paul was done deliberately to try and divide us and get us to defend Ron Paul on racism, rather than talking about the other 99.99999 percent of more serious issues. I think after Iowa the newsletter issue will die.
There is a lot of Ron Paul support here in Las Vegas, I have been a supporter since 2007. So far I have converted 9 people to Ron Paul, who have also converted their friends.
How do you guys predict things will go down from here?
The game is changed now and this is what I see happening:
1. I think many progressives and democrats will look at Santorum and get a little freaked out. Perhaps they will feel bad for attacking Ron Paul who agrees with them on more issues than any other candidate. Santorum has that face of your typical country club neocon self loving jerk, and liberals hate him more than anyone. They will destroy him quickly and swiftly. He will be destroyed anyway because he will not finish first or second in NH. Has anyone ever finished third in New Hampshire and ended up being nominee?
2. They have no more bullets to use against Ron Paul, they have used up whatever they could and his support is not dropping. Now the only place he will go is up.
3. Santorum is obviously their weak last resort. They have no more candidates to artificially push. Santorum will fall extremely quickly believe me. It will be obvious then that the race is between Romney and Dr. Paul
4. Google trends definitely tells you something, Ron Paul overtook everyone by a huge margin and is maintaining the lead in Google trends. Santorum will get a boost now for a short time, but that is just people googling him and getting freaked out when they see his actual positions and record. I can tell you right now that most people have no clue what Santorum stands for (I am in Nevada)
5. The entire world is on the brink of collapse, if the economy starts to take bigger hits, or we end up in another conflict Ron Paul will surge. 2012 does not look good...Euro will not survive much longer...some people say March.
Look, we have to get a hold of ourselves. The media attack on Ron Paul was done deliberately to try and divide us and get us to defend Ron Paul on racism, rather than talking about the other 99.99999 percent of more serious issues. I think after Iowa the newsletter issue will die.
There is a lot of Ron Paul support here in Las Vegas, I have been a supporter since 2007. So far I have converted 9 people to Ron Paul, who have also converted their friends.
How do you guys predict things will go down from here?