THE Presidential wannabes sit on a porch and wait for the voters to arrive: 

The best part about a Front Porch Campaign is that the fanatic supporters of a candidate will also go camp out near the “front porch.” Some 600,000 Harding supporters visited his hometown of Marion, Ohio, during the 1920 campaign. Imagine if all the old ladies who love Hillary went to wherever she lives (Scranton?) and stayed there until November. Better yet, imagine if Ron Paul’s wacky followers all moved to Ron Paul’s front yard in Texas, and stayed there forever!

Big porch? Small porch?

RON Paul for President. Not a chance. But he can still cause trouble:

But what’s been largely overlooked is Paul’s candidacy as a reflection of a powerful lingering dissatisfaction with the Arizona senator among the party’s most conservative conservatives. As anticipated in late March in The Ticket, that situation could be exacerbated by today’s expected announcement from former Republican Rep. Bob Barr of Georgia for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nod, a slot held by Paul in 1988.

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CHE Guevara makes an appearnce with Barack Obama and Ron Paul.

Says Cuban writer Carmen Peláez in Castro-loving leftists:

“When I started writing the play, I thought people just didn’t know what was happening in Cuba,” she said after the show closed its monthlong New York run last week. “But the longer I live here, the more I realized, they don’t care …

“They would rather keep their little pop revolution instead of saying it is a dictatorship,” Ms. Peláez said. “I had somebody come to me after a show and say, ‘Don’t ruin Cuba for me!’ Well, why not? They’re holding on to a fantasy.”

Better than holding on to a dream…

RON Paul: “DALLAS—Republican Ron Paul didn’t get many votes for president in his home state, but he easily won the primary night nomination for his congressional seat.”

SAY Ron Paul ofr Dr Murray Sabrin: He “has devoted his entire career to promoting limited government and personal freedom, and I am proud to have known him and worked with him for more than 25 years,” said Paul. “He will not only be an outstanding representative of the people of New Jersey, but the greatest advocate of liberty and constitutional principles the US Senate has seen in decades. I am delighted to endorse him and encourage all Americans who believe in freedom to support him enthusiastically.”

Vote Sabrin for US Senate..

RON Paul:

Paulbots seem to have lost there verve; the most importantest Republican in the history of the world!!1!1!12!!1!@! drew no better than 6 percent, and took less than 1,000 votes in D.C. And somewhere, the ghost of Ayn Rand sheds a salty tear.

When does he give it up?

ON the Ron Paul website: “Fox 26 in Houston gets some footage of the opening of Barack Obama’s Houston offices. And look at what’s up there on the wall.”

It’s “Che Guevara, Fidel Castro’s old comrade in Communist terror”.

And: “The stakes could not be higher in the battle between Ron Paul and Barack Obama for the hearts and minds of America’s young people, as this picture shows.”

Well , anything’s worth a shot. Even breakfast with Chelsea Clinton…

RON Paul. President Ron Paul. You gave him your money. Well, some of you did.

And he gives you a message:

Whoa! What a year this has been. And what achievements we have had. If I may quote Trotsky of all people, this Revolution is permanent. It will not end at the Republican convention. It will not end in November. It will not end until we have won the great battle on which we have embarked. Not because of me, but because of you. Millions of Americans — and friends in many other countries — have dedicated themselves to the principles of liberty: to free enterprise, limited government, sound money, no income tax, and peace. We will not falter so long as there is one restriction on our persons, our property, our civil liberties. How much I owe you. I can never possibly repay your generous donations, hard work, whole-hearted dedication and love of freedom. How blessed I am to be associated with you. Carol, of course, sends her love as well.

Oh, go on, Ron. Have a go. We’ll take cash:

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RON Paul speaks Austrian to business leaders.

Hayek? …. Check!
Hazlett? …. Check!
Von Mises? …. Check!

Ron Paul talks Austrian to Seattle Business leaders - watch here.

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With McCain, Huckabee and Romney stealing all the headlines over the past week, this evening’s Republican debate in South Carolina was Fred Thompson’s chance to shine.

Thompson came out fighting. And the target on numerous occasions was Mike Huckabee.

About half an hour into the debate, the candidates were discussing Reagan’s legacy when Thompson laid into Huckabee on numerous points accusing him of being part of the “Blame America first crowd,” and criticizing him for raising taxes, wanting to close Guantanamo and supporting a national smoking ban.

His assault ended with the ultimate smear: “That’s not the model of the Reagan coalition, that’s the model of the Democratic Party.”

Huckabee’s obviously prepared retort that “if you’re not catching flak you’re not over the target,” was cute. But his rebuttal was not nearly as effective as Thompon’s tirade.

During the remaining hour or so, Thompson continued to shine.

When the candidates were asked about the confrontation with Iranian speedboats, Huckabee tried to appear tough by threatening that if anyone set their sights on a US warship they would “see the gates of hell.” But Thompson followed up with a much more entertaining vow that if the Iranians had taken one more step they could have met the virgins they so look forward to.

Thompson also scored nice points throughout the evening, variously bashing the New York Times (you can’t go wrong there with a Republican audience) and saying that America should be a country of “high fences and wide gates.”

Huckabee scored some nice points of his own, while Romney and McCain appeared to hold their own. But Giuliani appeared quiet. And Ron Paul? Well, there’s not much you can say about him except, at times, it seemed as though the candidates were a little embarrassed he shared the stage.

Some questions that weren’t asked during tonight’s debate:

What does MItt Romney put in his hair?

Are Mike Huckabee’s eyebrows working independently of the rest of his face?

And has Fred Thompson ever considered buying a pug?

IS traffic on a candidate’s website a guide to chances of success? If it is Barack Obama has the presidentcy in the bag.

barackobama.com’s attracts as many visitors as his four main rivals’ sites put together. As Gawker points out, in a web election, he’d be up against Ron Paul.

THE Republican contest in Iowa has gotten dirty.

With just weeks to the Iowa Caucuses on January 3, Mitt Romney’s campaign has launched a low blow against Mike Huckabee’s stance on immigration.

Could these tactics have anything to do with the fact that Romney has fallen behind the cherubic wonder preacher Huckabee in recent Iowa polls?

John McCain’s camp said the ad was an insult to Iowa voters. And as if by magic, pro Huckabee ads have popped up touting his hard-line on immigration.

Don’t you just love that message at the end - “Authentic Conservative” - as though Huckabee’s rivals are just cheap, Chinese-made, knock-off conservatives. (Though that might go some way to explaining Fred Thompson’s failure to live up to expectations.)

Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani’s team are facing questions over their candidate’s stance on homosexuality. It appears the former mayor of New York thinks homosexuality itself isn’t sinful, it’s just homosexual acts that are a one-way ticket to hell.

And Ron Paul’s supporters are convinced that the boos their candidate suffered during a recent debate were a set up by the Giuliani campaign.

Are the conspiracy theorists right? Or is it possible that saying you want to bring the troops home is not the best way of appealing to a room full of Republicans?

THE United States of America is in turmoil and only one man can help: Ron Paul.

After raising over $4 million invoking the name of Guy Fawkes on November 5, Paul’s supporters are now invoking the Boston Tea Party to raise millions more on December 16.

They even have a fund-raising video straight out of the Simpson-Bruckheimer school of film-making, replete with stirring music, patriotic imagery, and dire warnings of a “once glorious nation” in decline.

Even if the patriotic fervor does make you want to throw up at times, you have to admit it’s more exciting than Fred Thompson’s latest snoozefests.

Where is the stirring music? Where is the oppressive regime? Where are the Redcoats?

YOU would have thought that allying yourself with a terrorist might not be the best way to run for the White House in 2008.

But for Ron Paul, the libertarian outsider competing in the Republican race, it earned him more than $4 million—in one day.

In one of the biggest fund-raising drives ever seen, Paul’s supporters used Guy Fawkes–or rather the V for Vendetta version of the Guy Fawkes tale–to appeal to the American people to donate $100 each on November 5.

The goal was to raise $10 million “for liberty,” “for freedom,” yada, yada, yada.

In the event, the one-day drive raised a little over $4 million. But that is still an impressive feat. According to the New York Times, Republican contender Mitt Romney’s best one-day total is $3.14 million. Hillary Clinton’s best is $6.2 million.

Paul is running the ultimate grassroots campaign.

His supporters swarm the internet, agitating and proselytizing. They became such a nuisance at the conservative blog RedState.com, that Redstate blogger Leon Wolfe warned everyone who had joined up in the past half year that they were not to “shill for Ron Paul in any way shape, form or fashion.”

“Unless you lack the self-awareness to understand just how annoying, time-consuming, and bandwidth-wasting responding to the same idiotic arguments from a bunch of liberals pretending to be Republicans can be,” wrote Wolf. “Which, judging by your comment history, you really don’t understand, so allow me to offer an alternate explanation: we are a bunch of fascists and we’re upset that you’ve discovered where we keep the black helicopters, so we’re silencing you in an attempt to keep you from warning the rest of your brethren so we can round you all up and send you to re-education camps all at once.”

Needless to say, censorship did not go down well across the blogosphere.

So what does Paul believe in?

He told Jay Leno recently that he stands for free market economics, free trade, saving the billions that are being wasted “maintaining our empire around the world,” bringing the troops home from Iraq, and doing away with social security and income tax.

A fantasy world indeed.