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Paul snags second in Christian activist straw poll

posted by dgilgoff | 1:19am Friday September 21, 2007

Yes, God-o-Meter realizes the headline from yesterday’s straw poll among conservative evangelical activists in South Carolina is that Mike Huckabee won. God-o-Meter was more taken, however, by Ron Paul’s commanding second-place finish, collecting 179 votes out of roughly 600 cast—well ahead of third-place Fred Thompson. Unlike Huckabee, Paul phoned in his message (Rudy Giuliani was the only Republican candidate not to appear in person, by phone, or video) to the Palmetto Family Council Stump Meeting, rendering his strong showing even more inexplicable. With Paul being the only Republican candidate to virulently oppose the Iraq war, are even evangelical activists tiring of the GOP’s ways?


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Major Wootton

posted September 28, 2007 at 1:05 pm


Yes, they are tiring of the GOP’s ways, big time. The GOP can just forget about us voting GOP because we can’t vote for the pro-abort Democrats.



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Willis Williams

posted October 3, 2007 at 10:39 am


Ron is the best. He has a sound view of religion, he is a devout Christian, and he understands true American government better than the rest.
Get out and talk about him because the liberal media knows that he is the ONLY GOP candidate that can whip the abort o crats; therefore, they bury him at any cost..



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Rachel Farer

posted October 4, 2007 at 5:12 pm


Ron Paul understands that much of what the government is trying to do with great cost and little success would be accomplished better by private organizations, and especially religious organizations. The Federal Government’s restrictions on everything religious combined with its massive social programs is essentially an establishment of the government itself as a state religion.



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David W

posted October 4, 2007 at 8:35 pm


This meter is misleading to label more faithful candidates as “theocratic”. Theocracy is a government ruled by priests/religion. Paul is a strong Christian but believes that religion should be left to individuals, families, and churches — not the government. He’s therefore very un-theocratic.



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