Ron Paul will be included in the South Carolina debate

It appears that Ron Paul will be included in the 2008 Republican Presidential candidate debate in South Carolina.

All 10 current candidates for the Republican Party’s 2008 presidential nomination will be able to take part in a debate to be aired on Fox News on May 15, the cable channel said Wednesday.

This is hugely important news because Paul has been receiving a groundswell of grass roots support from Internet users around the United States.Paul won the initial debate between Republican candidates in California, according to several Internet polls.

Borderline Libertarian-Republican Rep. Ron Paul (TX) won last Thursday’s debate on MSNBC by a wide margin. Accross the boards, in every catagory (sic), online respondents said Paul stood out from the pack, won the debate, and polled as likable and favored.
A capitalnews poll declared Paul the winner by 70 percent, and yet, the mainstream press failed to report his victory in any fashion, declaring Romney the winner.

Various mainstream media organizations, including ABC, ignored the people’s choice.

For libertarians and other disenfranchised political minorities, Paul may offer the first ray of sunshine to appear through the stormy political landscape of American politics in the last few decades.

One Internet rumor I have not been able to verify as of yet is that Ron Paul received more than 12 million dollars in private donations following the initial debate. Stay tuned, I’ll be continuing to follow the story of "Dr. No."