Results of the presidential preference straw poll for this year’s Family Research Council-sponsored Values Voter Summit have just been announced and, to the surprise of few, Texas “constitutionalist” Congressman Ron Paul ran away with it.

Paul sent out an email blast to his liberty-crazed legions on September 28 issuing the call to arms, declaring the beauty contest at this social conservative confab to be a “critical straw poll,” an essential pit stop along his path to securing the Republican nomination and another effort in the “libertarianish” Paul’s attempt to cozy up to “SoCon” activists, who might otherwise be leery of some his positions.