These guys are plain scary. War mongering at its worst. They could have shown footage of gorillas beating their chest for an hour and we would have got the point. The audience sounds drunk and rowdy with numerous interjections while candidates are speaking. The Ron Paul crowd is definotely in the house but seem fairly respectful. The anti Ron Paul boos in SC seemed to rattle him a bit. Maybe he has gotten too used to the applause in NH and Iowa. The southern crowd even booed Romney a couple of times but they seem to pay rapt attention to what he has to say. The Republican party is at a crossroads. They are about to nominate the first Mormon candidate for president in their history. In some ways its a sign of progress that the religious right is beggining to lose its stranglehold grip on the throat of the party. The deep economic crisis has opened the eyes of the base of the party to the need for someone who they perceive has the economic solution to our problems. They are finally willing to set aside the socially conservative issues and the hard core evangelical wing of the party in order to move the party forward.
