Last night I went to the Hall of Fame dinner in Phoenix, and on the way out of town (I went north from downtown) I drove through what looked like a two or three block long block party full of young people. Then I noticed all the ‘Ron Paul r(evo)lution’ signs and realized it was a Paul rally. There looked like there were several hundred people there, all under thirty.

There are a lot of reasons I’m not personally enamored of Paul, but I think that the number one issue for a lot of those people (like most young people) is Iraq, and we should be reaching out to them. For that matter, the recent college aid bill that Congress passed is a great place to start when explaining to young people that Government can make a positive difference in the lives of people.

I’m also sure that those aren’t the people who get called by pollsters (for one thing very few probably have a land line) so I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Paul surprises a lot of people with how strong he is in a caucus state (Iowa, in particular). Now I don’t think he will beat the well-lubricated Iowa machine of Mitt ($$$) Romney, but can you imagine what kind of heartburn would be going on in GOP headquarters the day after the Iowa caucus if the order of finish was:

1. Romney
2. Paul (surprisingly close)
3. Huckabee
4. Thompson
5. Giuliani (winning no delegates)

Dang, I’d love to see how they would start tearing their hair out.

Do you have something against middle aged women, Tom-AZ?

I guess I should look at this way. If a middle aged woman says something arrogant and condescending and dumb, we can blame it on the diminishing hormones and the hot flashes and the lack of sleep and the night sweats. When a man of any age is condescending and arrogant and ignorant then that’s just the way he is. And there is no shortage of them, either.