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I was all set to be a Huckabee supporter, and he really does say the right things. The trouble is, sometimes he also says the wrong things, like his National Smoking Ban. I can't stand to be within 50' of a cigarette, but I can certainly recognize Big Government when I see it. Then I hear things like his swipe at Mormonism and having the Feds dictate executive pay, and I start thinking, "what the hell kind of Republican is this?" When I start to get confused about what a Republican is supposed to be these days, I know we need to call a doctor to come in and treat this patient. When John McCain supports Amnesty and campaign speech restrictions and Rudy Guliani is so adamant about protecting us from our rights (and is unelectable by conservative women), and Mitt Romney is about whatever is going to get votes or babbling on nonsensically about religion and freedom, and nobody seems to care about the hockey-stick inflation curve, man, one day it hits you upside the head that we need a return to principles, and re-boot the Democratic Republicans. There's only one guy out there who isn't pretending to be from the Hawkish Socialist Party, and it's Ron Paul. He's the only guy who you would even recognize as a Republican if you wound the clock back a few score years. And, if you're sick of GOP boilerplate, well, there it is. He's only a lone voice in the Wilderness because everybody else is lost. Electable? Let's put it this way - put him up against any of the unabashed socialists on the other side and the electorate will have a very bright line to separate their choices. They can choose what America should look like in big, bold strokes, not subtle nuances. Polls are one thing, and it's very likely that only a small number of likely Republican voters who feel like talking to the dain-bramaged pollsters are Ron Paul's type, but up here in NH we have 40% independents, open primaries, and more Ron Paul yard signs than any other, of either party. We always tell people to "put there money where their mouth is" and his supporters are doing just that. That's a real poll. If we ran elections that way, he won. And, hey, if we might lose in November, why not go for the gusto and not be afraid of who we are? I disagree with him on several policy issues, especially how to exit Iraq, but I also recognize that our government is out of control, with $50T in real debt and so-called Republicans spending like drunken Democrats and both parties' elected officials changing our system of government in order to protect that government which no longer exists. I can't vote for that. I'll give some to win what's most important, and fixing America is where we need to start. America is more important than a party, but if the Party gets its House in order, perhaps we can have both.