"Grass" roots? Yeah. He's probably got a lot of that support.
Posted on 08/18/2007 1:36:47 PM PDT by Captain Kirk
Ron Paul received 216 votes for a commanding first-place finish in a straw poll today sponsored by the West Alabama Republican Assembly. Mitt Romney came in second with 14 votes.
The poll was open to Alabama residents.
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I’ll grant that many come from middle America...
"Grass" roots? Yeah. He's probably got a lot of that support.
You and I may not see eye to eye at times, but damn, that’s funny no matter who you are...
You have no compelling arguments against Paul, just more of the same name-calling and smears that’s been regurgitated by brainwashed FReepers who march in lockstep to the GOP establishment.
At 55mph I was past before I could honk, but it was a sight to behold. 3 guys standing in a soggy corn field, one playing a full grand piano. Mercy! And I hope it was an old piano, because the rain was a comin'.
I had to get back to town for an 80th B'day celebration for a Kiwanis buddy of mine. I told him about the encounter and it gave him a good laugh. Glad to see that because he's a fellow who's had his share of problems. Yet, his sense of humor is still the sharpest I've seen in a long time. He keeps me in perspective. Sorta unlike True Believers doncha think? :)
Doggone it, that could be one of the guys I saw watching the piano player (see my post #317). Must be a True Believer...
Gee I hope I spelled that right, would not want to upset anybody who may judge such things...
YOU call me deluded, and then when I say you are full of it YOU complain about name calling. Nice. I call it what it is. You don’t like that I call it as it lies, that’s your problem not mine. Enjoy the loss of your candidate come the primary. As with the DemoncRat Cookoocinich, RP will die an ugly political death. The fringe always cracks me up.
You are aware that national polls are based on samples of similar size?
“The Republican talk is to win in Iraq, win the GWOT by using the tools necessary to go after terrorists, including partiot act, surveillance, gitmo, etc.”
Yeah? Where in the Republican Party platform do you find those points?”
It’s in the 2004 GOP party platform. Just look.
“how we expect to defend freedom by diminishing it is really rather beyond me.”
strawman argument. Fighting the war on terror, having a patriot act, etc. do not diminish our freedoms, but protect them from beign robbed by terrorists.
This what the GOP platform says on it:
“Bush, Cheney, the Congress, and governors across the nation have taken significant steps to streamline the federal government; tighten security at entry points like ports, airports, and borders; strengthen protections at critical infrastructure landmarks such as power and water plants; and reduce the threats of bioterrorism and cyberterrorism. Through all their actions, Bush and Congress have been careful to protect the rights and liberties that make America a beacon of freedom and justice.”
“Apparently, however, you big-government Republicans ..” That’s a slander. I am anything but that.
I would even say you could find 216 in any medium-sized city who are willing to do that.
Like P.T. Barnum said, there's one born every minute....but a majority they do not make. :)
If I've slandered you, I apologize, because that was not my intent. However, you may want to take a hard look at the actions of our current president, and the kind of authority he'll be handing over to some liberal authoritarian administration down the road...because it's inevitable, you know. If it isn't Hillary and it isn't next year, it'll be some scion of the Kennedys or a Kerry grandchild or some other socialist with a powerful sense of entitlement and no conscience who one day steps into the Oval Office.
Our descendants won't thank us on that day.
I am convinced that GWB is now the de facto campaign manager for HRC.
No, it wasn't Elvis. He was in NH voting for Ron Paul.
And, frankly, I don't care whether you believe me or not. I saw what I saw.
It is where our beloved "Tonk" who recently died was from.. You know the state who's congressmen did the majority work to stop the illegal amnesty bill... The state that for a few early days led the leader board in donations to FR during the last FReepathon... The state that probable hasn't voted for a liberal for president since before Reagan.
The last liberal AL supported for President was GA Jimmy, who had the endorsement of George C. Wallace.
“how we expect to defend freedom by diminishing it is really rather beyond me.”
strawman argument. Fighting the war on terror, having a patriot act, etc. do not diminish our freedoms, but protect them from beign [sic] robbed by terrorists.”
So we diminish our own freedom to save it from being diminished by terrorists? How smart is THAT????? And, yes, our own liberty IS diminished, substantially, by such usurpations of power as are committed by the “patriot” act and others like it. Do YOU suppose that co-presidents clowntoon would hesitate for one nano-second to call conservatives and FReepers domestic terrorists and have us all sent to the labor camps, using these powers? If you do, you are worse off than I could possibly imagine.
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