Why is he doing so poorly in the polls?
it is mind boggling...i think people want change but not too much change...his change leads to and increase in personal responsibility and that is just too much for some people to handle

he leads all candidates combined with donations from military people and somehow it is not a story that the most fervent anti iraq war candidate is getting all the military money...go figure.

Why aren't the Republicans backing him?
because he is a threat to the nice little party they are having on the taxpayers dime.

Isn't he running on what they pretend to be for? Low taxes, limited U.S. military interventionism and nation building, etc. Isn't that what Bush ran on in Y2K?!
yup

I despise treachery and hypocrisy. And it seems the Republican electorate is boldly displaying both.
amen



Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as Elohim for Yahushua the Messiah's sake hath forgiven you. Ephesians 4:31-32