Ron Paul is the reaction to the big-government conservatism and foreign adventurism of George W. Bush.
Add him and Mike Huckabee together on election day, and you have some idea of how many Republicans are just super-pissed off about how the GOP has bought into the same corporate socialism that Democrats have always backed.
“...you have some idea of how many Republicans are just super-pissed off ...”
Damn straight.