The Secret To Blog Traffic? Ron Paul…Evidently.

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Who would have thought that a rambling post about how Ron Paul’s political stances are interestingly similar to Francis Schaeffer’s theology would have brought me in 1,500 visitors in less than 24 hours!? (That’s like 1.04 visitors a minute! For 24 hours!) On Christmas day of all days!

I had heard all the buzz about Dr. Paul’s internet following, but boy, I had no idea what I got myself into when I came out in support of the good Doctor from Texas. There were more comments in a few hours on that one post than I even have time to respond to. And more points of view than John Kerry at a swiftboat rally.

Evidently, my endorsement got linked to on a Ron Paul forum as “Evangelical Christian Blogger Switches from Huckabee to Ron Paul!“, and in came the flood of traffic. And after digging through most of the comments, both here, and on the other forums, I noticed a handful of things:

1) Paul’s people are definitely excited. I will vouch for that. Hopefully that will mean something for him in the coming days.

2) There a few, but very few, of Ron Paul supporters who support his candidacy based upon the belief that it takes a Christian worldview to be able to adequately defend a document (the Constitution) which was written in Reformed theological context. I’m one of the few.

3) As mentioned in the intro, Paul has a diverse group behind him. Atheists, Baptists, and everyone in between – and for almost the same reasons…they believe he is the candidate who will most ardently defend liberty.

4) Few of Paul’s supporters believe that his faith is a driving factor in their support of his candidacy. It seems that many thinks it helps, but I get the feeling that few would pull their support if he was not an evangelical.

5) I also get the feeling that many of his supporters think he is anti-war…which he admittedly is not. He may be anti-Iraq war, but he himself explained that he held to Augustine’s “just war” theory.

With Iowa right around the corner, I’m thinking about sitting down in the next day or two, and trying to hammer out – one more time – why I believe that a candidates faith is of utmost importance, for the very reason that it is their faith by which we can measure their vision and their promises.

More to come…hopefully.

‘BH

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