is worse than Ron Paul’s bite.

Ron may be a cult hero (as opposed to a cult of personality) but he’s clearly in the twilight of his political career and the zeal of his followers will cease to defy the laws of gravity very soon. He never did have charisma.

If the Obama Zombies’ money machine doesn’t think he’s enough of a threat to trash, or at least elevate to a userful idiot/third party candidate, that’s good enough fo rme.

If his student supporters who will drive from Arizona and pile in from Louisiana and surrounding states on that much time to plan can take the poll from practiced stackers like Romney’s folks (who have been giving out tickets and free signed books for a ‘pledge’ to vote for Mitt) than those candidates don’t have the supporter organization they were trying to prove.

I think Palin will win. She didn’t go to CPAC and her supporters have been issuing ‘calls to arms’ (their term) for this event for a long time. She is very popular in the south.

Ron Paul is conservative, and if you like someone else better, maybe you should attend and vote for that candidate.

Palin’s problem right now, and it actually may be a virtue for her at this point, is that she has no organization to speak of other than SarahPAC. While this allows her to travel light and strike quickly, it also means that she has to win straw polls based on sentiment. The Paultards can out organize someone who obviously has more grassroots appeal.

The point for Sarah? If she’s actually going to run in 2012, organization building is key. Even Saul Alinsky knew that!

Ryan is not a bad guy! Certainly of my 10 Favorite Republicans. Paul Ryan is a conservative and midwesterner, he lacks the charisma and intensity of Palin, Bachmann, and King. I sometimes think Ryan is too much establishment and not enough of a true believer. Glenn Beck more or less compares Ryan to McCain. Ryan is wonk to be certain, but his knowledge of Progressives is drawfed by Glenn Beck. I would like to see Paul Ryan get tougher! Paul Ryan is too much of a nice guy. Paul Ryan and Sarah Palin would make the perfect comibination. I don’t Ryan could hold after a year and half of attacks from the Corrupt Alinsky Media.