Dr. Ron Paul has rekindled the spirit of conservative, constitutional thinking like no one since ...

Many of you may have watched the Republican debate earlier this week, and undoubtedly wondered why there has been scant mention of it in the press ... make that NO MENTION OF IT HERE IN THE NEWSPAPERS IN MY LITTLE CORNER OF THE COUNTRY!!!

Well, thanks to a little prodding from my brother Richard in Connecticut, I was able to see a rerun of the Hannity & Colmes Show that ran on Fox News after the debate. I simply went to sleep after the debate, satisfied that Dr. Ron Paul had cleared the air on the matter of the illegal and dishonest nature of the war and occupation of Iraq. At least Mike Huckabee gave the best defense of our slogging on in what John McCain called a "Failed Iraq War" earlier yet in the debate--before the subject of foreign policy was even touched on formally by the moderators.

Of course, what I saw was the following



and it got even better (as regards the numbers) as the show continued from the moment when the above photo of a TV screen was snapped.

Ron Paul won the debate hands down and, interestingly, even the largest of the current polling report websites has stayed silent on the debate--obviously not knowing what to enter on their website when a couple of "third-tier" fellows (Dr. Ron Paul and Governor Mike Huckabee) stole the show, and the thunder from all of the others on the stage.

Even the John Birch Society managed to poke its head out of the ground and declare that Ron Paul is the only "true conservative" among the candidates of either major political party. I heard on Fox News (Channel 168 on XM-Radio) that most of Barry Goldwater's living relatives are supporting Ron Paul for the nomination.

It's clear that the '08 Presidential Race took a decidedly new turn during this past week, thanks to the heated exchange that was allowed to take place in front of millions of television viewers when Dr. Ron Paul and Gov. Mike Huckabee (two evangelical Christians, on top of all else) argued over the efficacy of George Bush's Iraq War. They both agreed that it was a mistake to have gotten involved in the first place, but disagreed on exactly whose task it is to "fix" what we had "broken" (to use Mike Huckabee's words).

But Mediawingnuts hopes that Governor Huckabee, will read the ugly statistics flowing from the Iraq War and realize that there have been between 600,000 and 1 million deaths overall in Iraq since the first shock and awe assault--not including more than 3700 of our own soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines. This is according to studies from organizations such as Johns Hopkins University and European think tanks. And oh yes, Governor Huckabee, it should also be mentioned that Cheney's Halliburton cronies have profited over the billion dollar mark since the nation was invaded.

I truly believe that we can assume that Dr. Ron Paul is in this race for more than winning ... he's in it to save what still remains of Republican Party "honor" and maybe, just maybe ... to save a great number of Iraqis and Americans from certain death in the months and years ahead. (And yes, maybe he can win the Republican nomination along the way, although that is surely a long-shot.)

Go Ron, go! Yes, go get those Neocon bastards and nail them to the cross of truth and righteousness!