Some Democrats, as I said here, are baffled that Ron Paul is such a successful politician, what with no pork-barrel appeal and his refusal to kowtow to the intellectual and party elites, but others, such as Shane Sklar, his Democratic opponent in the last congressional elections, get it, as this piece put out by the McClatchy newspapers reports:

“President Ron Paul? Sklar won’t rule it out. ‘I think people underestimate his political skills all the time,’ Sklar said. ‘You can’t ever take Ron Paul for granted.’”