Paul Camp May Catch Romney’s Bus

New York Times, blog section ^ | August 10, 2007, 5:08 pm | Katharine Q. Seelye

[George W. Bush]

Oh, my goodness, some bunch of dirty hippies is trying to take advantage of poor Mitt Romney! LOL.

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.

[George W. Bush]

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[George W. Bush]

Oopsie, missed the pinglist when I posted the banner.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Vote for Ron Paul you stupid infidels (pic)

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.

[SteveMcKing]

Real classy.

[Abcdefg]

Should we vandalize the keywords for them too?_;^)

[JTN]

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.

[mnehring]

My expectation is that no more than a hundred or so Ron Paul supporters will take advantage of Mitt.

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.

[mnehring]

You forgot my accusation,
Paul is a Fraud.

[padre35]

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..

[TexasGus]

The NY Times hopes PAUL = PEROT, a repeat of 88’

[TexasGus]

The NY Times hopes PAUL = PEROT, a repeat of 88’

[mnehring]

Guerrilla Campaign indeed, if Mitt had more Paul in him, then maybe, he just...well...

...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...

[Balding_Eagle]

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.

[George W. Bush]

Feel free to ping the Mittlist as well if you guys want in on this.

This apparently started as a post on a Ron Paul blog site.

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.

From there, it turned into a snit in the Blogosphere between the two camps.

Most of the RP supporters have urged the rest not to have anything to do with this.

My favorite post from the original blog page is this one:

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My Man Mitt is Desperate Says:
August 3rd, 2007 at 6:58 am

It’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.

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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.

At My Man Mitt, they have fresh stuff up on hysterical Brownback supporters and the following tidbit from Eric Dondero, the legal-prostitution advocate who plans to run against Ron Paul in his home district (Dondero, well-known for bragging about how wonderful it was to frequent prostitutes when he was in the Navy and how we need to legalize it for our military). Note the reference to Mitt's '94 run when Republican Liberty Caucus supported him. The RLC is a stronghold of libertarian Republicans and their foremost candidate is always...Ron Paul.

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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.

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I think this story is just too funny on too many levels.

[ejonesie22]

Cut that out..

And besides, its the combustion itself that’s not Constitutional. It infringes the rights of the gas and oxygen molecules...

[fieldmarshaldj]

Who is Paul Camp, and why does he want to ride Precious Willard’s short bus ?

[ejonesie22]

Ok now you guys are jut being mean. It takes a lot of intelligence to figure out that whole fluoride in the drinking water thing...

[ejonesie22]

(Snicker snicker...)

[elizabetty]

The NY Times hopes PAUL = PEROT, a repeat of 88’

Paul will be lucky if he can repeat what PAUL did in '88.