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Posted on 08/10/2007 7:51:57 PM PDT by George W. Bush
Paul Camp May Catch Romney’s Bus
Ron Paul’s supporters are actively encouraging Iowa voters to take advantage of Mitt Romney’s offers of free transportation to the Iowa Straw Poll on Saturday and then, once they are there, to vote for Mr. Paul.
...“Some say if Mitt is willing to bus Iowans to Ames for the straw poll, they should take him up on his offer!” says a flier in Iowa and on the Internet ...
The flier is topped with a banner that says “2008 Ron Paul News,” but Jesse Benton, a campaign spokesman, said it was the handiwork of independent supporters over whom the campaign had no control.
...While Romney is pouring thousands of dollars into winning the Ames straw poll, it is not clear what role Paul might play in cutting into Mr. Romney’s lead or jumbling the outcome for the other candidates.
Red and white “Paul” signs have sprouted up in cities across Iowa, at street corners and in front lawns, signaling at least some level of interest.
“He’s kind of a wild-card candidate,” said Chuck Laudner ... of the state’s Republican Party. “We don’t know what to expect. ...”
... the Paul campaign appeared to be “bringing in a lot of folks from out of state” to help organize Iowans, who are the only ones allowed to vote. He said it was hard to read what the campaign was doing because it had made no contact with the state party. “They’ve moved outside the whole campaign community,” he said. “They don’t come by. They do their own thing.”
The Romney campaign is bracing for a larger-than-expected showing from Paul supporters, ...
The Paul campaign has bought the minimum of 800 tickets to give to Iowans to vote. Other campaigns have bought thousands.
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(Excerpt) Read more at thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com ...
My expectation is that no more than a hundred or so Ron Paul supporters will take advantage of Mitt. But this story has been flaming around the internet and finally surfaced at NYT's blogs so I thought it worth posting for a little pre-straw poll drama.
These excerpts are just the high point. More fun reading at NYT blogs.
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Paul's a kook
Paul's in bed with terrorists
Paul's a nutcase
Paul likes shrimp!
Getting the retorts out of the way here, George.
Real classy.
Should we vandalize the keywords for them too?_;^)
I’ve wondered whether or not the campaigns had any gatekeeping function in place to keep other candidates’ supporters from taking them up on the free tickets. I guess there isn’t, or at least not much of one.
I think you are exactly right with that.. if Paul has any more than 100 supporters, chances are they don't believe in buses because the internal combustion engine is not in the Constitution.
LOL, Guerilla Campaign indeed, if Mitt had more Paul in him, then maybe, he just...well...
Romney is really trying to win that straw poll, I guess he calculates that in such a scattered field, that winning it will boost him over Thompson and MacBeth’s ghost err...McCain..
The NY Times hopes PAUL = PEROT, a repeat of 88’
The NY Times hopes PAUL = PEROT, a repeat of 88’
...he would have to have some serious time in the confessional (or whatever Mormon's version of that is), but Rudy would like him better...
Seesh, don’t they know this all says more about Ron Paul than Romney?
Well, no. I’ve had a few discussions with Paul supporters here on FR, they are seriously lacking in the mental horsepower category.
Ron Paul News » Should a Ron Paul Supporter take Mitt’s Free Expenses to Ames?Then it seems it was discovered by Mittsters and they got incensed about it over at MyManMitt.com.
Lots of good zingers from both camps. As I said earlier, I don't think Mitt needs to worry much and this whole story is actually pretty funny. It's just an Iowa GOP fundraiser after all.
My Man Mitt is Desperate Says:
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:58 amIt’s disgusting to think that Ron Paul Supporters would degrade the fine and noble practice of buying votes.
Those law firms, lobbyist and special interest groups paid good money to buy this election and it would be a disgrace if people took advantage of that benign charity.
We want our voters to act more like politicians:
Once their votes are bought they stay bought.
I think this story is just too funny on too many levels.
Eric Dondero at Mainstream Libertarian has an interesting article about a Libertarian site encouraging people to vote for Romney.
In 1994, Senatorial candidate Mitt Romney was endorsed and heavily backed by the libertarian-leaning Republican Liberty Caucus in his race against Ted Kennedy. More recently Romney made a very libertarian statement to the AP on pornography:
"I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things I find objectionable; that's their right. But I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity."
Now at least one Web Blog is urging Libertarians to consider supporting Romney. The site Independent Libertarian Spirit is appropriately Christian libertarian.
For certain Mitt has one thing libertarian Ron Paul does not have: A chance.
And besides, its the combustion itself that’s not Constitutional. It infringes the rights of the gas and oxygen molecules...
Who is Paul Camp, and why does he want to ride Precious Willard’s short bus ?
(Snicker snicker...)
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