Posted on 11/23/2011 7:22:24 AM PST by packback
Ron Paul has effectively crowd sourced his campaign and his get out the vote in Iowa and New Hampshire may set a new standard for political volunteer efficiency. In the video the women make a valid but not often overlooked point in campaign politics, "volunteer smart."
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In English, please.
Ron.
Paul.
Supporters... (draws breath)
Are mostly unpaid volunteers, with few if any paid ‘professional’ staff to run things.
(Normal voice)
Conventional wisdom - or the nattering of the MSM says Ron has no chance in the primaries.
He is running an unconventional campaign, be prepared to be “surprised”. (and yes, the style is from the ld DNL/Garret Morris bit)
Anyway, that's what I tell myself every time I warm up to Ron Paul. Then he says something really, really stupid which brings me back to reality.
Last night, it was the Timothy McVeigh comment. For those of you who missed it, the topic was the war on terrorist and the inefficiencies of the TSA. Rick Perry proposed privatizing it. Rick Santorum proposed using logical profiling as is done in every sane country in the world. Ron Paul just could't help himself by shooting back a comment about how we wouldn't catch somebody like Timothy McVeigh who didn't fit the profile. Double face palm.
But it wasn't the first time Paul trotted out the corpse of McVeigh. He did it earlier in the debate by explaining how terrorism was a law enforcement problem and not a military operation problem. And how splendidly the law enforcement strategy worked on McVeigh.
Somebody remind me when McVeigh tried to blow up an airliner. Or a U.S. Embassy.
I will support who ever the party nominates, even Romney but till then Paul’s my first choice. I understand how difficult it is to understand freedom, it’s a difficult concept, responsibility for your personal safety falls the individual, I reject that we must live in a police state, and that is surely what we live in today. Instead of putting the responsibility for our safety where it belongs, the provider of the service, “Airlines”. We make rules telling the pilots they must stay locked in there work area, unable to arm themselves, and because security is provided by government political employees and useless overpaid rent a cops, making you take off your shoes, empty your pockets, stand in a machine that blows air up your butt or bombards you with exotic radio waves, built by the friend of the politician who wants to secure you future so long as he gets his donation, or kick back. When you put politicians the power to restrict your movement, tell you where you must spend your money, tells you who the approved vender is, you are a surf.
Then all the new politicians are doing is saying, I’m not like him, I’ll do it better, but they all use scare tactics to take power and your freedom.
The only one who will reduce the power of the Presidency is Paul, everyone else wants more power in their hands to direct your life, because their morality is superior, their god is just and approves of them, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it!
The last several administrations are the only ones I see practicing isolationism. I'm pretty sure that our policy of "bombing countries into democracy" has done far more to isolate us from friendly relations with the rest of the world than what Ron Paul is proposing.
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