[Iwo Jima]

AuntB, I know and respect you from the various border threads. On this matter, you simply do not know what you are talking about.

1. Illegal aliens are not hugely popular in Texas. They are hugely unpopular.

2. Paul has been and is strongly against illegal aliens. He has written about this extensively and sponsored and co-sponsored numerous pieces of legislation of that issue, such as ending birthright citizenship.

3. The Texas straw poll was restricted to party insiders (recent convention goers, elected officials, and maybe a few others). As a 30 year Republican primary voter, I was not allowed to vote.

The Texas Republican Party is free to conduct its polls however it wants, but if all that it wanted to know was who its insiders supported, there were much simpler ways to go about it. This poll tells no one anything about what is likely to happen in the Republican primary. Those who claim that this poll somehow means that Ron Paul can't win the Texas primary are either ignorant or being disingenuous.

Which one are you?

[AuntB]

Ron Paul has never produced one piece of effective legislation that did anything to control illegal immigration. In fact Paul has never gotten any of his legislation through the process. Ever. He has NO support or endorsement from his congressional colleagues. His claim of small government is just that, nothing but a claim.

Ron Paul has proved he can’t ‘govern’. He has a zero record of accomplishments, except for pushing 1876 bills others wrote through congress. Small government guy?

Just for comparison of actual accomplishments in congress:

Sponsored means he wrote or introduced the bill. Co sponsors sign on to other bills written by someone else.

Statistics: Duncan Hunter has sponsored 105 bills since Jan 7, 1997, of which 72 haven’t made it out of committee (Average)

and 10 were successfully enacted (Good, relative to peers).

Hunter has co-sponsored 894 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers).

Now take a look at Ron Paul, who claims many ‘accomplishments’ and would never vote for any frivolous, unconstitutional bill!

Statistics: Ronald Paul has sponsored 346 bills since Jan 7, 1997, of which 341 haven’t made it out of committee (Extremely Poor) and 0 were successfully enacted .(Average, relative to peers).

Paul has co-sponsored 1876 bills during the same time period (Average, relative to peers)
NOTE: 1876 bills, written by other congress members. All ‘constitutional’ ? You decide.

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400191