Posted on 10/06/2007 10:56:41 PM PDT by traviskicks
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- A huge crowd came out Saturday afternoon to the War Memorial Auditorium to see Paul speak. The crowd of 1500 included about 300 people who support the Texas congressman through an internet group.
Dave Perry is part of that online group of friends. The group, based in Nashville, recently decided to ask presidential candidate Ron Paul to visit them.
"We contacted them and they said sure, We'd love to come to Nashville,'" said Perry.
Actually, that is exactly how the Republican congressman is building his campaign. He listens to online supporters across the country and meets them.
"Well it looks like I have a lot of support here. I'm delighted to receive such a welcome," said Paul.
While Paul still trails heavily in national polls, the Republican is making waves for his anti-war, limited government positions and also his fundraising. Paul pulled in $5 million last quarter shocking most political experts.
Perhaps to most, Ron Paul is still an unfamiliar presidential candidate, but to this crowd he is their only one.
The group of Ron Paul backers that helped bring him to Nashville is part of a website called "Meet Up." Supporters across the country have set up nearly a thousand "Meet Up" groups dedicated to making Ron Paul the next President, showing proof that the internet is playing a bigger and bigger role in politics.
In addition to Saturday's rally, Paul also held a private meet and greet fundraising event.
Paul's campaign officials said more than 70 percent, of the $5 million they raised last quarter came from online donations.
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Wow, the surrender lobby is gathering steam. Maybe it was a double-bill with Kuchinich.
Wow he is drawing the biggest crowds.
Others:
http://ronpaulmeetupvideos.com/
*Wow he is drawing the biggest crowds.*
So did Hitler
Like, Wow dude, Like, I met a superstar man. Like, wow man.
Like, I met RP man. Were on fist name basis now man. Like, yea.
Paulistinians think that if they’re nice to the Islamists, they’ll be the last beheaded.
Ya, as seen from the posted video, he delivers one of his better speeches here, IMO. Talks about how other campaigns operate by thinking they could draw these kinds of crowds if only they could ‘hire the right people’ or ‘come up with the right plan’, Paul says, “it doesn’t work that way, this is a bottom up, not a top down effort, we come to the people upon their request, we don’t plan any of this, it happens because people are drawn to freedom and the freedom message” “I joined your revolution, you didn’t join mine”. (paraphrasing) Also goes on to talk a lot about economic freedom, something I wish he would spend more time on.
You just Darwin’ed a thread about a anti-war candidate.
Now, either try again, maybe Neville Chamberlain the thread, or at least give a half arsed attempt to discredit Paul.
Wow RuPaul is popular. Who knew nashville hated America so much?
We might as well just give up and convert to Islam.
Ron Turd can pack them in./s
No wait, let me rephrase,
Do the (R)-supporters of Ron Paul realize that Ron Paul doesn't exist
outside of the MSM "Lib" media?
Now look what I've done, I wasted 3-minutes of my life
making this dumb post about a RHINO..
HA!
*discredit Paul*
L Ron Paul does that all by himself.
I have had some of this POS supporters tell me the planes
that went into the WTC did not have passengers on it and
went in by remote control.
The Paulestinian supporters need to move on to the Daily KOS or DU where they would fit in with the anti war, anti Israel, scum.
~~~JMHO~~~ 
I can't put anything but the KRAZY~TAG on Paul,,,JMHO...
Good points he made. I am near letting myself having some optimism for the future of liberty in this nation.. seeing all those young people interested in the ideas of liberty.
I used to be a big L libertarian, and it was so discouraging talking to baby boomers and older persons who just honestly don’t like the philosophy of liberty. For the old folks government was actually very beneficial to them. The cost of course was taking out debt to pay for those benefits.
The baby boomers.. well we know the leftwing marxist ideology that was so in style when they were young. And we see them doing their best to institute it as their careers have progressed and they occupy those critical positions in society.
Seeing many young libertarians makes me hopeful that even if a hardcore libertarian doesn’t win an election anytime soon, the ideas will be instituted by these young libertarians. As they become judges and city administrators and politicians and so on themselves.
Your candidate wants to surrender to Al Qaeda. Don’t be shocked when conservatives criticize him for it.
Add them to that list...38 days till HOME...
We’re getting more efficient....
Presidential Hopeful [Ron Paul] Draws Big Nashville Crowd (Yay, only 398,500 short of Woodstock!)
Editorializing through abuse of admin accounts is something even during the worst of the Bush/McCain/Keyes/Forbes/Hatch intra-party flamewars on FR was never seen. To make things worse someone used an inflammatory, lowest common denominator, boring, unoriginal and dated stereotype to completely destroy all debate on the foremost Conservative Forum on the internet.
The weakness of character just displayed by an admin bodes ill for the entire website.
Go ahead and report me for abuse.
I don’t think they want to start throwing Libertarians out of here - conservatives and libertarians DO agree on a lot - but this IS a “conservative” forum (it says so in the first sentence of the home page) and not a “libertarian” forum.
Don’t like it? Stop pushing a guy that the vast majority of the people here want nothing to do with.
I have not reported you, as you cn see in the admin screen, but I have brought it to Jim Robinson’s attention. You have explicitly broken forum rules through a personal bias, which granted is one shared with Mr. Robinson. Mr Robinson has also been a rgacious host to the Republic Liberty Caucus, of which Ron Paul is a founding member.
There was no reason to introduce purely anti-intellectual and anti-civil editorializing directly against long standing forum posting guidelines. That is shameful. If you want to torpedo this thread, go ahead and deep six it and pull the thread. What you did is a public display of an intellectual coward. Censor, or let be. Ridicule over something like this is pathetic. Of the 1500ish in attendance, do you have any idea how many were N Republican activist stalwarts?
How many will be supporting the Republicans with real action after the primaries? You just went out of your way to alienate this forum from the Republican party of Nashville and TN. You went out of your way to bring down the wrath of Instapundit on FR.
It was foolish. Please correct yourself.
And before you deep six me, do you remember this event?
http://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/05/03/68312859.shtml
The anti-tax protestors of TN ARE the TN Republican party. By calling them Woodstock hippies you are invalidating Jim Robinson’s position. That’s why I called you out.
These were the people who were considered heros on FR. It’s the same people. It’s the same people who will be manning the phones for TN Republican party candidates.
And also let me add, 99% of the time I have nothing but respect for the volunteer work admins do here.
LOL. Funny.
“Ridicule over something like this is pathetic.”
It is very difficult to keep from heaping ridicule on Ron Paul since he seems to be inherently ridiculous.
“You just went out of your way to alienate this forum from the Republican party of Nashville and TN.”
You need to apologize to the Republican Pary of Nashville and TN for even hinting that they would associate themselves with a nutjob such as Ron Paul.
And this is supposed to endear us to Libertarianism. You have shown us the reason why your party is going to be stuck in single digits forever. It's the same lament heard in every insane asylum. I'm not crazy; everyone else is.
L Ron Paul’s supporters are like deadheads following Jerry Garcia from concert to concert. Maybe they’re the same people. With Jerry gone, they need a new idol.
Stop drinking the kool aid.
Simple challenge to you Paulites. With NO slogans. NO demagoguery. NO sliming everyone else who doesn’t share your faith. Tell me HOW Paul would do anything. Here is his “Issues page”. NOT a word about what or how he would do anything. Just a bunch of slogans strung together basically screaming bile at everyone and everything.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/
See, you need us to support Dr Paul. We have no reason to support Dr Paul. So please explain to us WHAT and HOW a Paul Administration would do anything. Do that with OUT sliming any one. No name calling, no hysteric hyper emotive rhetoric. None of the usual Paulite personal attacks in place of reason argument. No cut and pasting of sound bite statements from Paul speeches. NO statements of what YOU think Paul means. REAL plans with documented links so we can read them for ourselves.
Maybe 100-150. The Paul campaign, in harness with various Leftist wack job groups have been busing people into these events. They got busted by the local press in New Hampshire doing this. So the bulk of Paul's crowds are not "Stalwart Republicans", but clowns from the professional Anti American Leftists groups like Moveon.org etc who are hoping Paul will be their Trojan Horse to split the Conservative vote in 2008.
PS. Since you Paulbots continually refuse to intellectually engage people, you should not be whining because your gutter slime rhetoric is turned back ON you. Simple challenge for you Paulbots.
With NO slogans. NO demagoguery. NO sliming everyone else who doesn’t share your faith. Tell me WHAT and HOW Paul would do anything. Here is his “Issues page”. NOT a word about what or how he would do anything. Just a bunch of slogans strung together basically screaming bile at everyone and everything.
http://www.ronpaul2008.com/issues/
See, you need us to support Dr Paul. We have no reason to support Dr Paul. So please explain to us WHAT and HOW a Paul Administration would do anything. Do that with OUT sliming any one. No name calling, no hysteric hyper emotive rhetoric. None of the usual Paulite personal attacks in place of reason argument. No cut and pasting of sound bite statements from Paul speeches. NO statements of what YOU think Paul means. REAL plans with documented links so we can read them for ourselve
The Libertines never seem to grasp that with Rights comes Responsibilities. What the Libertines, who wrongly call themselves Libertarians, want is a society run to their own selfish advantage. They are all so gung ho to demand everything be dismantled because THEY do not at this second NEED it.
But you better believe NONE of them went to school on THEIR OWN DIME. NO, they expected US to pay for it.
So what these Libertines want is for US to be there to save them when the inevitable price has to be paided for their hysterical self indulgence. They utterly refuse to accept the responsibilities that are the inevitable price of a free society.
Been over this ground numerous times. He has no plans, if we follow his soundbites, we bankrupt the country. From an article that can't be posted here. (Detroit News)
"It doesn't matter how many people are in this race for president," he says about what sets him apart from other Republicans. "They're all for the war."Paul is not. He'd withdrawal troops from Iraq today. Just pull them out because he says that's how we got in. It's a message that resonates with college liberals, independents and others who are disenfranchised from candidates on both sides of the majority party aisle.
But it's not entirely realistic. Sure it might be possible, but even the top Democratic Party candidates aren't willing to commit to leaving Iraq. Try getting that idea through Congress.
Similarly, he'd run into obstacles in his free-market crusade for health care. He rightly says the first dollar spent into health care should come from the consumer and that the government should get out of the business. Three cheers for that idea, but the trend is moving dangerously in the opposite direction.
He supports secure borders, stronger property rights, the enforcement of existing immigration laws and lower taxes. Hard to argue with those notions either, but he doesn't have much guidance for how he'd make things happen if elected president.
And though he talks often about small government, his nearly 20 years in office have endeared him to those controls, too.
When asked who would determine citizenship if birthright citizenship were abolished, as he proposes, he said government could figure it out. That's a frightening suggestion that would be about as legitimate as having a group of monkeys throw darts at birth certificates at the state fair.
Every candidate has an issue or two that trips them up and perhaps this is Paul's. It's a fringe subject, but it's symptomatic of what ails his campaign, in my mind. Idealism doesn't always mesh with realism, and Paul had a hard time explaining how he'd put his platform into practice.
That's a serious issue. If Ron Paul is to be considered a legitimate contender during the next few months, he'll need to get beyond principle and put some action into his plan.
Immigration, one of his "issues", as in
Ron: Defend the borders!!!!!
Supporters, waving pitchforks: AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!!!!!!
A simple issue like birthright citizenship, he's opposed, but he can't come up with proposed new standards?
Perhaps children of legal immigrants only. Or children of citizens. Or if he thinks it requires an amendment, I don't, say that.
No, leave it to Congress. Ted Kennedy and Nancy Pelosi will figure it out for "President" Paul.
well, here is a sample of some of the legislation paul has sponsored (this is a list from the 106th Congress):
http://www.house.gov/paul/legis/106/
I think it lays out pretty well his exact thoughts and plan of action on a great number of topics. I don’t think you will find much to disgree with there.
Actually, most of Paul's support comes from frustrated conservatives disappointed with the direction the GOP is headed in.
Strange how they engage in the very kook conspiracies that they accuse Paul supporters of engaging in, isn't it?
As you can see from this forum, only 13% of Ron Paul supporters were registered democrats in 2004, with a 2:1 ratio of Republicans to Dems. My personal experience is that it is more like 4:1 R over D, but who knows, this is a small sample... I also think these numbers illustrate his chance to beat hillary in a general election.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?t=22280
View Poll Results: What were you registered as in 2004?
Republican 45 26.79%
Democrat 23 13.69%
Independent 32 19.05%
Libertarian 24 14.29%
Constitution Party 2 1.19%
Green Party 2 1.19%
Was not registered 33 19.64%
Other 7 4.17%
50% is being generous. That crowd looks 3/4 dem along with the crazy hollering at the start. These are not Repubs, nor are many of their supporters here.
PRay for W and Our Troops
Here the challenge since you seem to be ignoring it.
With NO slogans. NO demagoguery. NO sliming everyone else who doesn’t share your faith. Tell me WHAT and HOW Paul would do anything. Here is his “Issues page”. NOT a word about what or how he would do anything. Just a bunch of slogans strung together basically screaming bile at everyone and everything.
The only one that's drinking the koolaid is you Johnnie.
People are sick and tired of big fat government and paying out the ass in taxes, and so far none of the GOP candidates with the possible exception of Thompson have went in-depth on how to deal with our entitlement meltdown and weak, devalued dollar. All of them are spewing the usual focus-group tested BS. That's why Paul enjoys the support he has, he's real and he has the voting record to back it up.
Now you can remain a GOP sycophant and resort to laughing and poking fun at a devout Christian who has been in the trenches fighting for America since his days as an Air Force Captain, but my primary vote goes to the guy who is honestly talking about the issues even though some of his foreign policy I don't agree with.
Looks like a few more than the other Republican candidates are getting to show up. And in the Actor’s own state? Wonder why that is? LOL, well we’ve got to stop this right now. We can’t let the message of freedom, liberty, and peace catch on. People might start to realize the hacks in Washington are supposed to be working for them and not the other way around....
LOL!
post 41 was in response to your request. I don’t think you can get more detailed than the exact language of the actual bills he’s sponsored.
And, BTW, if you look at this thread, the ‘demagaugery’ as you describe it, doesn’t seem to be coming from the Paul supporters...
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