Posted on 11/29/2007 12:04:02 AM PST by mission9
The streets of St. Pete were bustling with hundreds of Libertarians. They old, the young, the prostitute and the soldier, they came to passionately support Ron Paul. They dressed funky; they costumed. Some dressed like Paul Revere; others undressed. Their numbers outshined any other candidate. At the outdoor Republican staw poll, Ron Paulers chanted en Mass, "Freedom! Freedom!" Vendors worked the crowd with bull horns, souvenir tee shirts and buttons like a Grateful Dead Concert. They had old school buses in the parking lot.
Some other street theatre was provided by homeless activists and their annual streetfight against the town fathers, some street theatre was given by the Global warming protesters, but the main event, the airplane banners, the snipe signs, the car decorating and the face painted was Ron Paul hands down.
They had three separate event sites - The Vinoy Park (with the Republican Party) , they occupied tables at Pioneer Park, were the Democrats gathered. There, they outnumbered any other candidate, even Dennis Kucinich. They rented the Palladium, and from there spilled into the streets, drinking heavily.
At Vinoy Park, the location of the outdoor mainstage, Giuliani, the front runner in the polls, had a table with four college students. Mitt Romney Had about sixty supporters, who became quickly annoyed with the boisterous rabble. Mike Huckabee had fifteen supporters. John McCain had none. Fred Thompson had a half dozen stalwarts.
The Ron Paulers stood in long lines to vote in the straw poll. Each bar-b-que meal cost $20, this entitled the bearer to one vote. Voting was managed by Debra Clark, Supervisor of Elections, on official electronic touchscreens. The young Paul activists held cameras on other voters as they voted, to make sure that no one cheated.
Onstage, between karaoke sets of Neil Diamond covers, Mitt Romney’s son spoke. Congressman Gus Bilirakis spoke, the chair of the Pinellas Republican Party spoke, Congressman Bill Young spoke, a few others spoke. What ever they said had no import, because to this crowd, all that mattered was Ron Paul REVOLUTION. Mercifully, rain came and cleared the field, and the jumbotrons played only to a few concession workers.
And what was it that is so motivating the populist street movement? Why would prostitutes sing the praises of a pro-life Republican? A few conversations with any Ron Paulite would get back to the same road.
Paraphrased it goes something like: There is an international, New World Order, Jewish banker conspiracy to bankrupt this nation. We have been preyed upon by corporations, George Bush and Dick Cheney. While we may need an investigation to determine just what their culpability in 9-11 was, there is no doubt that the Iraq war was illegal, and only Ron Paul can stop this hell bound train. Oh yeah, that is the conservative liberterian view, the radical Paulites think that George Bush and Hillary Clinton are puppets of the Extra-terrestial overlords who have seeded this planet. The human race is a captive genetic experiment on prison planet earth were they can abduct people, mutilate cattle, and communicate with crop circles.
It is worse than you thought. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold, and everywhere the tide of anarchy is loosed upon the world.
“The British are leaving. The brigade of Al Sadr now is in charge, so they are getting their country back. They’re in charge up north — the Shia — the people in the north are in charge, as well, and there’s no violence up there or nearly as much.”
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/28/debate.transcript.part2/index.html
“...the people in the north are in charge, as well, and there’s no violence up there or nearly as much.”
Wow - I’m just glad that the “snow birds” could help out in St. Pete!
The transcript doesn't indicate that at least one person in the audience yelled "Kurds" while Paul was struggling with the Shia.
Still this is dangerous stuff. 9-11 truthers are as dangerous to our Republic as Chinese communists because their passion is founded on a lie that is gaining steam.
Ron Paul was successful in sending the code words to his base from the debate hall - CFR, NAFTA superhighway.
Tell him you know Allegra... who has been in Baghdad for years... and that he is lying!
LLS
He’ll pull more libs... kucinich wants on the ticket!
LLS
You got that right, but this third party candidate is nuttier than Perot. You know that the money is coming from some liberal source who has no intention of voting for the man.
Sooo the Key West Bus made it ok, then?
No, I think the Paultard was feeding you a bunch of moonbat, anti-American, made-up leftist BS.
How do you know he really even was an Iraq war veteran?
From what I've seen, Paul Cultists will say or do just about anything to get their weird, twisted agenda out there.
Paultard - is that trade marked yet? LOL
And the part of northern Iraq that is not controlled by the Kurds is predominantly Sunni.
More proof that Ron Paul doesn't have a freakin' clue as to what he's talking about.
Yeats was ahead of his time.
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
A fitting poem for FR.
“I am finally understanding the Ron Paul deal. Another Lyndon LaRouche.”
Here is a bumper sticker idea for the Paulites. “Ron Paul for President because Lyndon LaRouche is not running”.
Thank you my brother. You are a scholar and a gentleman.
“Paultard” :-)
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