Wayne Root is coming on strong. He was on Fox News last Saturday, and just yesterday he secured the enthusiastic endorsement of the LP’s First Presidential candidate from 1972 Dr. John Hospers. The latter is HUGELY IMPORTANT! in LP circles. Plus, Root has been making an appeal to Ron Paul supporters in the last few days.

If Root is the nominee, given his money and celebrity, you can bank on a great many Paulists switching over to the Libertarian Party.

But if it’s a 2nd tier Nominee like the insider favorites George Phillies or Steve Kubby, watch for a deflated Paul contingent staying within the GOP, especially if the GOP nominates a Fiscal Con like Fred Thompson, Mitt Romney or libertarian-leaning Rudy Giuliani.

If it’s Huckabee on the GOP side, and Kubby or Phillies on the LP side, the Paul people, and most libertarians including Rudy libertarians like me, will just stay home.

Paul, like Huckabee, also does not believe in evolution:
http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=2571

The idea that our consciences can be overruled by a leader who claims to speak for God and country is the same philosophy fascist dictators used to gain control. My conscience is between me and God, and I respect divine power too much to trust a politician when he claims to represent God’s will. Christians should judge a candidate’s ethical record and decide whether the candidate is exhibiting the “fruits of the Spirit.” (Galations 5:22-23)

I believe Ron Paul shows these fruits, and I invite you to examine his record.

I don’t want to take up too much space here, but I have written more on Huckabee’s questionable ethics on my blog at leightonweese.squarespace.com

However, it is blatantly obvious that Evangelical Christianity has ensconced itself within the highest levels of our government despite the Establishment Clause in our constitution prohibiting such, but it has happened nonetheless and special interests now dress themselves up in Evangelical clothing to garner the support of the Evangelical base in order to gain access to favorable legislation.

Good ol’ Huck is only doing what the rest of the crooked career politician do, praise Jesus during election time and get blow jobs in airport bathrooms or take lobbyists money (bribe) after they’ve secured their congressional seat.

You could say these politicians are religious because religion does a political career good, whereas having no faith is without question a career killer.

Besides, Ron Paul is pro-life, I am pro-choice and I don’t believe Ron Paul is neither religious zealot or anti-religion. He is for the constitution that states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion….” together with the Free Exercise Clause, (“…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”)

Ron Paul is SAVING the GOP’s ass. All of the independents, fiscal conservatives, libertarians, old-right conservatives….if Paul wasn’t running, you think they’d continue holding their noses for the GOP nominee?

If Paul does poll 10%, does that jumpstart his campaign or simply confirm his small base of support within the Republican primary system? Considering that he’s probably going to do better in libertarian New Hampshire than he will elsewhere?