HA!!! Look at the "who won the debate" results on ABC!

[napi21]

Now that the debate's over, it's time to consider the winners and losers.

Who do you think won the Republican debate?

Ron Paul---3,054
Mike Huckabee---526
Mitt Romney---513
Rudy Giuliani---396
Nobody won. I'm voting Democratic.---324
Tom Tancredo---173
John McCain127
Nobody. I'm waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race.---105
Duncan Hunter---44
Tommy Thompson---35
Sam Brownback---21
Total Vote:--- 5,318


http://abcnews.go.com/politics

[originalpckelly]

1. HAHA!

:rofl:

[Individualist]

2. Interesting totals.

:)

[stlsaxman]

3. Awesome!!!!

:rofl:

[rodeodance]

4. whow----it is NOT even a content--Paul is so far ahead!

[dkofos]

5. Looks like Ron Paul should stay off small planes!!

[rodeodance]

6. ancredo---173------SCARY that anyone would vote for him!

[stray cat]

7. Ron Paul made the most sense of any of them

[Cha]

21. Of course..he's sounds

a real republican and not someone taken over by fascist pod people.

[tanglefoot]

33. It's still funny!

Someone the nutjob pukes think is a nutjob whipping them in a debate. Yeehaw.

[pinkpops]

8. Paul is now at 4611 - next in line is Romney with 842

OK guys and gals - who voted twice?

[napi21]

10. I only voted once, and I was the OP here. I don't think this was

impacted by DUers. I have no idea how many Dems voted there though.

I just find it really amusing that so many appear to agree with Ron Paul, and his message...at least on Iraq is the same as the Dems.

[book_worm]

9. and the democrats beat out MCCain and others

[Marr]

11. Yes, but he's "unelectable", don't you see?

It doesn't matter how many people support you, it's *which* people support you. Mr. Paul doesn't have the approval of media owners or beltway insiders. The people choose which candidate they like most, from the list of candidates that big money finds acceptable. In other words, you get to choose your representative's hair color.

For the record, I'm not a Ron Paul supporter. I think his ideas on domestic policy are even more dangerous than the average Republican's.

[Joanne98]

12. Ron Paul 5,385...

[followthemoney]

13. He will be excluded from further debates because he is a "non-factor"

Just like Nader and Buchanon.

[deadmessengers]

14. Racist repugs

If you ever needed proof that the Repugnican party is almost entirely comprised of racists, this is it. I mean, Ron "95% of black males are semi-criminal or entirely criminal" Paul? Good grief. What a bunch of racist scumbags, supporting that pile of excrement.

[napi21]

15. I don't think that's the reason most of those people said ron won

the debate today. I think it was because of his statements on Iraq. I did miss some of this morning's silly display, but I never heard him say anything about blacks or race. I don't question wether you're right or not, just that I never heard him say anything like that and I'd be surprised if many of this morning's viewers have either.

[MissWaverly]

16. they are stuck in the 1950s

All of them could easily have had lunch with Joe McCarthy, they might have bought him a beer with the exception of Ron Paul and he's
a racist.

[ellacott]

18. Whoa!! He said that?

I tried listening to the debate and turned from it when they kept bringing up the Democrats.

That's a dangerous statement that he said.

[CGowen]

19. it was in a 1992 newsletter

This is not the first time Paul has veered into potentially insensitive territory. In 1992, a copy of his newsletter, the Ron Paul Survival Report, criticized the judicial system in Washington, D.C., before adding, "I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal." Under a section headlined "Terrorist Update," the following sentence ran, "If you have ever been robbed by a black teenaged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be."

These quotations became an issue during Paul's 1996 campaign for Congress. During the campaign, he declined to distance himself from the statements. But in a 2001 interview with Texas Monthly, he said he had never written or approved those words for his own newsletter. He said he failed to disavow the words during the campaign on the advice of his political advisors. "They just weren't my words," he tells me. "They got in because I wasn't always there. I didn't have total control. And I would be on vacations and things got in there that shouldn't have been."

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/06/02/ron_paul/index1.html

[ellacott]

22. That's pretty scary n/t

[CGowen]

23. That they dig up old stuff he hasn't written? n/t

[ellacott]

27. That he says he didn't write

That would be an odd thing to make up. Who would have thought something like up?

[deadmessengers]

30. Alternately...

That they dug up something that he *did* write, but once it got him into trouble he backpedaled, spun, and ultimately threw some un-named staffer under the bus for? Personally, that explanation seems a hell of a lot more Repugnican to me.

[TheFarseer]

17. has anyone ever seen his Candidates@Google?

he has some good points and some interesting points but overall if VERY frightening. His vision for America sounds like the "gilded age" only worse.

[Crabby Appleton]

20. Ron Paul doesn't score very high in scientific polls

only the Internet polls.

[dkofos]

32. And HRC does. Go figure.

[Vinca]

24. OMG - Ron Paul is over 9,500!

How amusing would it be if he won the primaries??

[Chulanowa]

26. I would laugh and laugh and laugh

while he is dismantled like an old end table as all his comments, his rhetoric, and his voting record catch up to him.

Sure, he wants to end the war in Iraq. This is because he figures if we're going to destroy a national infrastructure and turn that nation's residents into slave labor, we need to start at home.

[Vinca]

29. Right - ending the war is his only good idea. Other than that,

it's more of "every man for himself." But, I'd sure love the RNC to be stuck with him after he'd won the primaries.

[CGowen]

28. he's a constitution hugger, no place for that n/t

[madinmaryland]

25. Winners? They are all LOSERS!!1!!

:rofl:

[Superman Returns]

31. RP is now over 12,000

How can someone with all these internet votes be so low in the regular polls?

[CGowen]

35. What did exit polls predict during the presidential election? n/t

[RadiDem]

34. WOW! Brownback supporters dont believe in the www-Too much Satanism like Harry Potter here LOL! -nt

[TroubleMan]

36. LOL....Paul is up to 23,000.

That's too funny.

[farmboxer]

37. Ron Paul is, by far, the best Repub, no doubt about it.

I am a Democrat, but Democrats are not supporting "We The People" anymore. They seem to be only interested in doing what a retarded Bush tells them to do, they must please him.

I like Kucinich more than any other Dem.

[passy]

38. update

Ron Paul 31,452
Mitt Romney 3,972
Rudy Giuliani 2,967
Nobody won. I'm voting Democratic. 2,886
Nobody. I'm waiting for Fred Thompson or Newt Gingrich to enter the race. 2,681
Mike Huckabee 2,447
Sam Brownback 1,010
Tom Tancredo 694
John McCain 666
Tommy Thompson 399
Duncan Hunter 398
Total Vote: 49,572

[jazzjunkysue]

39. Rudy #4, McCain #7. yep. Those GOP sure are doing well.

I love it. I hope Paul is the popular GOP candidate: That would mean the GOP machine was truly impotent.

[Ganja Ninja]

40. Down here in Pinellas County FL (Clearwater/St Pete) ...

the only Republican campaign signs I've seen are Ron Paul's.