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Category: Ron Paul

  • Our political salvation

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    Washington Post’s “On Faith” discussion drifted off into the spiritual realm of politics today asking if either Obama or McCain were really “The One” we’re looking for. David Waters says this election is about finding our messiah;

    In this presidential election, as in every presidential election, we’re all looking for The One who can lead us to the promised land, The One who can heal the economy, deliver us from demonic forces of evil, save us from the dreadful mistakes of The Previous One.

    I thought it was pretty juvenile to think that any politician could lead us into the Promised Land. As you read through the piece, Waters admits it, too. But looking at the moon-eyed Obama supporters, a rational person would ask “what’s wrong with these people? ” The Ron Paul crowd is no different – they think their prophet isn’t really a crooked self-serving politician, even though all of the rest are crooked and self-serving.

    Then I ran across this article on Breitbart and it all came home for me

    Police said the 42-year-old man dialed 911 twice last week so he could have his sub [sandwich] made correctly. The second call was to complain that officers weren’t arriving fast enough.

    Subway workers told police Peterson became belligerent and yelled when they were fixing his order. They locked him out of the store after he left to call police.

    When officers arrived, they tried to calm Peterson and explain the proper use of 911. Those efforts failed, and he was arrested on a charge of making false 911 calls.

    That’s an Obama supporter; government has all of the solutions to every petty problem that pops up in our lives. Can’t pay your mortgage because you don’t understand variable rate mortgages? Vote for someone who promises to bail you out. Can’t find a broker who gives you good investment advice? Vote for someone who wants to regulate the industry.  Remember in the 1992 election some pinhead in Virginia asked Bill Clinton to be our national father?

    We don’t need father-figures, we need someone who does what the Constitution says he should do; defend the Constitution from our enemies and preserve our rights. I already have a savior and I know how to fix my own sandwiches.

  • My peek into the Ron Paul Revolution

    At the risk of attracting trolls, I thought I’d give my regular readers a look into my alter ego this week as a Ron Paul Revolutionary. It was completely inadvertent at first, but I decided to just go along. It began with the post I did on Saturday about the Ron Paul march and it mostly happened on YouTube and Flickr where I have accounts to support this blog.

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  • The Ron Paul Revolution in full swing

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    Ron Paulians filled Constitution Avenue this morning to bring the “Second Revolutionary War” to Washington. I’ll admit that it was a pretty big crowd, the website had over 15,000 people pledged to come, but it looked like less than half that many showed up, but it was fairly impressive nonetheless. Well, compared to their gathering in April and the gatherings of other moonbats I’ve witnessed lately.

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  • Paulians disrupt Minnesota Convention

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    Rurik is a regular fountain today. He sends along an email report he got from a friend named Ferg who attended the Minnesota convention this weekend;

    Well, in my opinion the convention was a disaster.  Much anger and bitter feeling on many peoples part, we ended even more divided and more bitterly divided than we were before.  The Paulites were treated unfairly to be sure, but they themselves were obnoxious and obstreperous using all the liberal tactics and displaying the typical liberal attitudes. They would bring up a resolution, it would be voted down by a large or even huge margin, and they would bring it right back up again with slightly different wording and it would be defeated again, and they would bring it up again.  This went on far too long, and cost much valuable time.

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    On the other hand, the Paulites seemed to think they could just walk in and make the rules, bring up resolutions out of order, seek special treatment and consideration, not respect the orders of the chair, and on and on and on.  It was the pits.  I have been going to these conventions since 1993 and this is the worst I have ever been to. I will not stay at another one like this, as it is I left early out of disgust for the Paulites and for the party apparatus.

    In the final analyses it would have made no difference how the Paulites were treated.  […]

    The Paulite message was not selling to ANYONE other than the Paulites themselves.  That is all there was to it.  And the more they obstructed convention business, the less anyone wanted to listen to them  My people were yelling at them to shut up, even my newest delegate who herself was on the National Delegate ballot.  […]

    One of the first things I learned was that you don’t force your way in.  You spend several years working your way in, and then stay by working with the party not against it.  Just the way it is. People don’t like others coming in and telling them they have been doing it wrong for the last thirty years. Makes them get defensive. Now we are going into a bad election year with a hopelessly divided party, and many bitter losers. And not a real leader in sight.

    Rurik’s response to Ferg’s email made an historical reference;

    The behavior you describe, and which we have seen elsewhere, would be fully consonant with Leninism. No, not the Lenin of the Communist Party in 1918, but the Lenin of the Russian Social Democratic Party in the 1890s, before Lenin forced the split into Bolshevik & Menshevik factions.

    Rurik continues by saying the Paulians behave more like “libertines” than Libertarians, and I agree completely. They’ve disregarded the process that has been set in place and pretend they can dictate to the rest of the Republicans who our candidate should be – the tyranny of the minority. The tiny minority. (I remind them that before McCain became the nominee, Paul never pulled in more than 3% of any State’s Republican primary) Paulians disrupt the proceedings just to feed their own huge egos and to make them seem more important than they really are. Spammed internet polls don’t count as the will of the People. The only people the paulians are fooling are themselves.

    Rurik also wonders if Paul isn’t just a dupe of his own movement, but the Twin Cities.com reports that Paul, himself was there in Rochester to stoke the crowd;

    U.S. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas was barred from the Republican state convention at the Mayo Civic Center here, but he addressed a rally outside the hall to encourage his fiercely loyal supporters to carry on the campaign for his anti-tax, small-government, market-based, anti-foreign intervention principles.

    Paul told his backers that while he won’t win this campaign, they have sparked a “freedom revolution that will last a long time to come.” He said they should be encouraged because their movement is spreading their principles of sound money, balanced federal budgets and “bringing our troops home.” Paul said he didn’t want to disrupt the Republican Party, but “we’d like to disturb them a little bit.” With polls showing that 90 percent of Americans think the country is on the wrong track, he asked, “What’s wrong with the Republican Party that they haven’t figured out we’re on the wrong track, and we need to change course?”

    I think the dupes are those hardworking Americans who’ve been fooled by Paul into pouring their hard-earned cash into his ever-increasingly failed campaign. I suspect that sooner or later some Federal agency will find malfeasance committed on the part of the Paul campaign, and, of course, Paul and his lieutenants  will scream they’re being victimized by the “Empire” again. If they were truly more concerned about the fate of the nation, they’d work within the system to change the culture instead of just bullying their way to the stage.

    As I’ve said countless times on this blog, there’s very little I disagree with Paul on his message, but the Goobers and Gomers on his campaign are too much to bear.

  • Where did these people go to school?

    I just popped by The Sniper to check on the antics of my battle buddy, Thus Spake Ortner, and found him dissembling some pseudo-intellectual IVAW wienie who, not surprisingly, reinterprets several historical moments (and uses some odd stripper metaphor) to justify his politics.

    It struck me that, speaking of people who think they’re smart, Ron Paul is due to have another rally, which set me to “googling” (actually “Yahooing” because I don’t use Google).

    Sure enough, after a few false starts, they’ve settled on July 12th in D.C. But what the Hell for?

    Our goal is to organize a peaceful, non-violent march on the streets of Washington DC followed by a rally in support of R3VOlUTION that is happening in America.

    By involving as many volunteers and participants as we can, we intend to spread the know-how of mass mobilization and direct-action to the movement. As a law-upholding movement, it’s our responsibility to use these Constitutional tools wisely and effectively.

    By inviting people outside the conservative or republican camps, we hope to extend the R3VOlUTION to all people of all backgrounds.

    Remember, when we say “revolution”, we say it with LOVE!

    For what? The Ron Paul campaign is over. Dead in the water. Why are you clinging to the cadaver of a failed campaign? One commenter wrote:

    This would be MORE exciting if this event was used to launch an independent/3rd party run for the presidency with Judge Andrew Napolitano as paul’s vice president. Also throw in celebrities and high profile politicians speaking in the event endorsing the presidential run.

    That would be exciting – as exciting as anything else Ron Paul has done.

    Why are these people throwing good money after bad knowing they don’t have a hope? Why are they coming to DC (and raising $30,000 just to have a march in DC)? Another commenter;

    I’m totally pumped about this and I can assure you that there are MILLIONS of people who will be there come rain or shine.
    LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!!!!

    Don’t you guys realize how goofy you sound and how out-of-touch you are? You spammed every poll on the internet to convince each other that there were more Ron Paul supporters than there really are – but when you show up in DC, the whole world will know there aren’t millions of you. I’d be shocked if you drew a thousand, and all from the area.

    Disrupting state conventions and organizing marches is not the mark of a majority of voters. It’s the mark of a few who are more enamored with the thought of a revolution than they are with actually changing people’s minds.

    Oh, and by the way, all of these heroes of yours, the leaders of your “revolution”, are playing you for saps. What else would call people who are speaking to your emotions and draining off your money in a hopeless endeavor. The ones who aren’t smart enough to take your money are just basking in the pseudo-fame you provide them.

    Of course, you can’t cheat an honest man.

  • Paul/Obama links

    My good buddy over at Jammie Wearing Fool caught a whiff of a RonPaulista “Digging” around with some of some of his posts and tracked him down to this bit of paulian antics (I’d post the link, but the host moved it almost as soon as LGF linked to it);

    I ran across a link to a blog post while manipulating Digg on behalf of the Ron Paul campaign, dated July 4th 2007 entitled ‘Ron Paul Morons Manipulating Digg’

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    Now here’s the irony of this whole thing. This ‘Jammie’ blog as far as I can tell is a Zionist rats nest created to post misinformation such as the nonsense referenced by the above title. The hypocracy is staggering.

    First of all, this ShootingSparks fellow was manipulating the social networking site and then found a blog entry about paulians manipulating Digg. I guess that adds a measure of credibility to JWF’s post ShootingSparks found, doesn’t it?

    But this fellow, ShootingSparks, goes on to indict the entire Little Green Footballs network as some sort of grand Zionist scheme to take over the world. Not a big leap for most Paulistas, I’m sure. But Charles Johnson did a bit more digging and found ShootingSparks’ My Obama page.

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    This guy was “digging” Ron Paul posts and spouts the Paul line while he’s an avowed Obama supporter. This reinforces what I’ve suspected all along – the paulians are nothing more than a Democrat insurgency into the Republican Party. Why else would an anti-war cretin like Adam Kokesh be a Ron Paul supporter?

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    And Shooting Sparks is a Keith Olberman fan, too;

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    There was a chance this wasn’t the same guy so I dug a bit deeper and found more of the same. The guy seems to be a prolific blogger;

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    In the remainder of the article off of the screen capture, ShootingSparks admits, after spouting the standard Ron Paul paranoia;

    Well, as i am a furiously busy poster on many Obama listserv’s as the campaign has progressed everytime i start or post to a thread it is immediately jumped on, on several different listserv’s, very often by the same people, which seemed to me reminiscent of the tactic employed by the “Megaphone Mob”
    I do not suggest that Megaphone is being used against Obama, i only note the similar perception management techniques being employed…

    If they were real Republicans, now that the party rank and file has spoken and Republicans have chosen their candidate, paulians, would fall in line behind the rest of us and work to get the party’s popular candidate elected in November.

    But what have they done instead? They’ve done their best to throw the Republican Party into disarray for no discernible purpose other than the joy of causing disorder. This doesn’t help Paul’s candidacy or the Republican Party – the only side it helps is Democrats. Of course, it provides good cover for anti-semites (a cached copy of a Shooting Sparks piece the Obama Team scrubbed from the site found by LGF) and racists to take cover behind a Republican candidate while being fairly clandestine about their actual support for Obama.

    I suspect this is one of thousands of links we’ll find before the year is out.

    In other Paultard news, TC at Beer in the Headlights writes that the Georgia Republicans have the gumption to shut down the puny basement dwellers.

     

  • Ron Paul campaign sputters forward

    Last month on April 15th, the Ron Paul spoke to supporters about the evils of “The Empire” and bathed in admiration and rock star treatment, but from his tone it sounded as if the campaign had ended. He signed autographs and shook hands with moon-eyed fans to cheers of “Run, Ron, Run”. Although he’s never pulled in more than two percent in any state primary before the other Republicans quit running, his fans still think he has a chance to win the election.

    The Washington Post today announces that “Paul Campaign Never Ended, Spokeman Says“;

    Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) told supporters in early March, through a Web video, that he knew he was no longer in the running for the presidency, and aides said his campaign would be “winding down.” But it turns out Paul never stopped running for president.

    “He put out a video in which he said victory in the conventional sense was not available to us, but there was still much the campaign could try to accomplish,” Ron Paul 2008 spokesman Jesse Benton said yesterday. “People in the press reported that as him dropping out when he was not dropping out.”

    Paul’s campaign has shrunk from a high of more than 150 staffers before Super Tuesday on Feb. 5 to around 15, according to Benton, and his record-breaking Internet fundraising operation has turned off its online ticker. But with more than $4 million in cash on hand, his campaign says there is no good reason to stop.

    He is still racking up votes, for one thing, having garnered 16 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania’s Republican primary on April 22. And his supporters are still active at the grass-roots level: GOP officials abruptly canceled the Nevada state convention when it became clear that Paul’s backers outnumbered those for McCain and stood ready to take control of the delegate process.

    Paul’s campaign hopes to turn such support into upward of 50 delegates for the party’s national convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul in September, where he is gunning for a speaking slot.

    Now, I wonder why Ron Paul would lead his voters on like he does. I guess it couldn’t be related to his book which began shipping from Amazon at number one, could it? Or the fact that money still pours into his campaign fund? Ron Paul supporters are the first to say that all politicians are money-grubbing charlatans…I wonder why they think that Ron Paul is any different and why they think they’re not being played like a cheap violin.

    Warning: This is not written to spark a discussion on foreign policy, the CFR, the Fed, or any other boogeyman of the Ron Paul crowd. If you want to explain to the rest of us why you still fund and support a doomed campaign, I welcome the comments. If you want to discuss all of those other things, please go to The Sniper and have that discussion with Thus Spake Ortner.

  • Diplomacy worked so well with Vietnam

    One of this last week’s commenters made the completely intellectually vacant point (while defending Ron Paul’s contention that we should withdraw inside our borders and depend on diplomacy instead of projecting our military power) that we’ve done so much better with our relationship with Vietnam using diplomacy than we did with the force of arms. Well, I picked up this story at Democracy Project;

    The other day, Vietnam voted along with China, Russia, Libya, Burkina Faso, and Costa Rica on the UN Security Council, against the US, Britain and France for a U.N. special envoy and a voluntary arms embargo of Zimbabwe. Even UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it was “just unacceptable” that the election results had not been released a month after the vote. “We know who is the winner,” he added.

    This was just another of Vietnam’s many international positions opposed to both the West and to human rights around the world. (I wrote about what to expect from Vietnam being allowed to sit on the UN’s Security Council here.)

    They joined with China and Russia (shock!) to oppose a voluntary arms embargo of Zimbabwe. Why, other than the fact that they stand to make money shipping arms into Mugabe’s Zimbabwe would anyone vote against a voluntary arms embargo? Oh, maybe the fact that China, Russia and Vietnam are ideological allies of Mugabe who is trying to maintain control of his country using the Leninist/Stalinist/Maoist/Minhist tactic of starving the people into submission.