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http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTWyxtaGbcQ Many people are enthusiastic about Ron Paul and his compaign... Candidate Ron Paul's devotees a mixed bag By DAVID LIGHTMAN McClatchy Newspapers Candidate Ron Paul's devotees a mixed bag http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/politics/story/214934.html WASHINGTON --If Ron Paul's supporters got together for a family portrait, it would be one of those pictures in which no one seems to resemble anyone else. "You have old-school Republicans, the conservatives who backed Barry Goldwater (in 1964). You have the anti-war crowd who are principled non-interventionists," said Jim Forsythe, a former Air Force major who's organized meet-and-greet sessions in New Hampshire for the Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate. You also have businessmen tired of government regulation, college students who like his views on holistic medicine and middle-aged folks who don't see Social Security helping them in a few years. There are people who supported Democrat Howard Dean four years ago and others who backed conservative Republican Pat Buchanan in the 1990s. What brings them together is a common belief that government is too big, obtrusive and unresponsive. "It's a desire to get government out of my life. That's it," said Rick Grote, a pharmacist in Hampton, Iowa. That bond has made Paul one of the more striking phenomena of the 2008 campaign. He's slowly climbed to poll respectability in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, and his fundraising now rivals better-known foes such as Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson