Americans want presidents and congressmen that follow conservative principles and the U.S. Constitution, as opposed to just saying that they follow them.
What we are witnessing today with Ron Paul is a return to those solid, bedrock American principles espoused by Robert Taft and Ronald Reagan. The era of the neocons is ending, thankfully, and not soon enough either. Neocons will die-out like the dinosaurs did and new, younger blood will influence the Republican Party henceforth. The new focus will be on the practice of limited government and sound economic principles based on the Austrian economic model. This is the dawn of a new era and it is welcomed.