...are currently
not too enthralled with him, either, according to John Hinderaker of PowerLine Blog:
Paul is facing a strong challenge from an accountant and city councilman named Chris Peden, who currently leads Paul by around ten points in the polls. Roger Simon interviewed Peden and posted a podcast, along with an interesting summary of the interview. Not surprisingly, one difference between Peden and Paul is that Peden supports the administration's national defense efforts. Peden also questions the racially charged, and otherwise controversial, newsletters that Paul sponsored for many years.
His was an interesting voice for economic freedom in the presidential debates, but the nature of his support and his own debate rhetoric suggested that he represented an older and more insidious strain of the right wing.
This article in the New Republic about his bigoted, paranoid newsletters over a period of a couple decades confirmed it, although many still clung desperately to another messianic figure. He'll stay in until the convention and his supporters will try to manipulate the delegate system to cast delegates pledged to other candidates for him, but he will quickly fade into obscurity--one hopes--after Minneapolis crowns the next bearer of the Republican mantle.
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