FR Members
Duncan Hunter 37.3% 348
Mike Huckabee 14.8% 138
Ron Paul 11.8% 110
Rudy Giuliani 10.9% 102
Mitt Romney 10.3% 96
John McCain 8.2% 76
Tom Tancredo 4.9% 46
Sam Brownback 1.7% 16
99.9% 932
Non-Member Opinion
Ron Paul 25.8% 216
Duncan Hunter 22.6% 189
Mike Huckabee 16.0% 134
Rudy Giuliani 14.6% 122
Mitt Romney 7.4% 62
John McCain 6.7% 56
Tom Tancredo 5.4% 45
Sam Brownback 1.7% 14
100.2% 838
Not only that, but there must be quite a few Ron Paul supporters who have become freepers just to push their candidate. So the statistics are probably even worse than indicated by that member/non-member discrepancy.
Ron Paul is a useful gadfly in the House, but the thought of him as a presidential candidate is laughable.
McCain darned near beat Bush in the primaries because he had the entire press on his side, and the Democrat machine arranged massive Democrat voting for him in the Republican primaries, including a change of law in New York State just for that purpose. But those kinds of tricks won’t work for Paul. If they think they can manipulate the primary voters like the MSM and the Democrat machine, they are smoking something very strong.