Ron Paul is blowing up real good

Salon ^ | June 2, 2007 | Michael Scherer

[Austin Willard Wright]

The antiwar, pro-gold, libertarian presidential candidate Ron Paul tells me he would rather be riding his bicycle than speaking to another reporter on a Thursday afternoon. "My vice is that I'm obsessed with exercise," says the Republican congressman from Texas.

But running for president does not exactly disagree with him. All day long, he has been hustling from one press appearance to the next, a high-energy bundle packed into a lithe 71-year-old frame. His brown eyes sparkle with fire as he blurts out one big adjective after another. "Preposterous," he says of Rudy Giuliani, who accused Paul in mid-May of blaming America for the attacks of Sept. 11.

[snarks_when_bored]

Ron Paul: doofus on the loose-us...

[Austin Willard Wright]

Ron Paul ping

[MichiganConservative]

"My vice is that I'm obsessed with exercise,"

Well, this right here shows that he is completely out of touch with most Americans. How can he hope to reach the land-whale demographic if all he does is talk about how he likes to exercise?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Dr. Demento is blowin' up REAL good !

[johnny7]

The conservatives Kucinich...

[X-Ecutioner]

Wow! It would explain why he look so strong for 71.

[Darkwolf377]

His brown eyes sparkle with fire

Can't stop fiddlin'

Til I get my Ritalin

--The Simpsons

[Stepan12]

Ron Paul/Adam Ghadan in 2008!

[Reaganesque]

Jamie want big boom!!

[snarks_when_bored]

Yup.

[johnny7]

Buchanan could be his Secretary of State...

[Allegra]

Buchanan could be his Secretary of State...

And Lyndon LaRouche as Secretary of Defense...

[gas0linealley]

This is why Paul is running. Though he has no real shot at winning, he has a lot to say. He's the only Republican candidate who wants to end U.S. involvement in Iraq and withdraw the U.S. Navy from the waters off the Iranian coast. He wants America to pull out of the United Nations, NATO, the International Criminal Court, and most international trade agreements. He wants to abolish FEMA, end the federal war on drugs, get rid of the Department of Homeland Security, send the U.S. military to guard the Mexican border, stop federal prosecutions of obscenity, eliminate the IRS, end most foreign aid, overturn the Patriot Act, phase out Social Security, revoke public services for illegal immigrants, repeal No Child Left Behind, and reestablish gold and silver as legal tender.

Sounds good to me.

[Dustbunny]

Ron Paul is blowing up real good

Shame this is happening to a good man.

Every candidate that runs on the MSM agenda, lose. Has something to do with what the MSM say the people want and what people truly do want are completely opposites.

[thebaron512]

I do support many things on his “wish” list, but I would maintain crushing terrorists.

[Dead Corpse]

Yeah, but he lacks common ground with the RINO contingent so they feel a compulsion to slander him to make their liberalim feel better to themselves...

[LonePalm]

That's funny, I rather he was exercising than running for President too.

Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)

[Drango]

I don’t know who’s worse...Salon or L Ron Paul.

[Bigg Red]

Sounds good to me.

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Did it also sound good to you when he echoed the al-Qaeda propaganda that on September 11 we got what we asked for?