(ThyBlackMan.com) My thoughts turned to Dr. Ron Paul as the plot thickens in South Carolina. Where is the SC love for him? Like Gov. Rick Perry, Paul is also a fellow southerner. Besides Dr. Ron Paul has the money to get his message out to SC voters. All the media hype has been about whether Speaker Newt Gingrich will win the SC primary since Perry announced the suspension of his campaign for the 2012 GOP nomination and endorsed Newt. It is as though the opinion shapers think that there is not enough love in SC to make Paul a potential winner.
With purportedly more military contributions than any other candidate, a loyal fan base, solid social conservative credentials, and a fiscal message in tune with national priorities, what are the internal polls suggesting about Ron Paul chances? Newt is not that well-liked. So why are most of the predictions about a horse race in SC on Saturday in which the question is whether Newt will catch Romney? Each of the other candidates, as well as the media in the 
main, has been so dismissive of Ron Paul becoming the party’s nominee. Yet, each immediately follows the prognostication with concerns that Paul’s running on a third party ticket would cause the GOP to lose the general election. So, I ask, “Where is the GOP love for Ron Paul?”
I am looking for confirmation in the media or by other candidates of earlier polling that suggested a path for a potential Ron Paul victory in SC. That was with Perry in the hunt. Now that the fellow Texan and southerner has suspended his campaign, now that fellow southerner Cain is gone, now, after together Ron Paul and Mitt ripped Newt a new orifice in Iowa over his taking more than a million dollars from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, now, after NH where Ron Paul weakened Senator Rick Santorum with ads and where Santorum proved ineffective and immature in responding to criticism, why isn’t Paul being talked about as a potential winner in SC?
Ron Paul has held his own in every debate. There is another tonight before the voting. Mitt Romney has had a bad week the media say. In fact, in one flap, Romney had Ron Paul come to his defense and to the defense of “vulture” capitalism as it was called by Perry and Newt. Ron Paul has been a defender of even the one per centers when he felt it was right. So, where is the GOP reciprocity? Where is the love for Ron Paul?
South Carolina will vote on Saturday. Will the GOP voters vindicate Ron Paul? Will they give him the love he deserves? If not, is a separation pending? Is it desirable? We know a divorce is out of the question. Or is it?
Staff Writer; Victor Langhorne
