Email Print By John Sellers at Tue Aug 16, 2011 4:19am EDT On Monday's issue of "The Daily Show," Jon Stewart asked the issue Ron Paul supporters have been asking for years: Where's the love? Stewart showed clips of various radio pundits stating that a "top tier" of Republican presidential candidates -- Michele Bachmann, Mitt Romney and Rick Perry -- has emerged after Saturday's Ames Straw Poll, regard for Paul's awesome showing. The Libertarian congressman, who is considered the "intellectual godfather" of the Tea Party, came in assign in the Iowa poll, finishing fewer than 200 votes behind Bachmann and more than 1,500 votes before of Tim Pawlenty, who withdrew his candidacy after the poor third-place result. Paul's 27.7 percent dwarfed that of Rick Perry (4.3 percent) and Romney (3.4 percent) -- although, to be fair, neither the Texas governor nor the preceding Massachusetts governor campaigned much.
Still, Stewart wondered Monday, why was no one talking about Ron Paul after his awe-inspiring showing in the straw poll? "Rick Santorum?" he queried, after watching Fox News' Chris Wallace giving acclaim to how well the recent Pennsylvania senator performed in Iowa. "He didn't get half of what Ron Paul got. He bygone to the send up who irreclaimable so lousy he dropped out of the race. Santorum?" He also joked about one pundit's constructive appraisal of Jon Huntsman, the Mormon prospect who received 69 votes in the straw poll, a sorry likeness next to Paul's 4,671.
"If all of Jon Huntsman's supporters met at the same Ames, Iowa, Quizno's, the detonate marshall would say, 'Yeah, that's fine, no problem,'" said Stewart.
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