Paul faithful flock to Spartanburg appearance (sixteen standing ovations!)

GoUpstate.com ^ | 7/21/07 | Jason Spencer

[George W. Bush]

Paul faithful flock to Spartanburg appearance

A little-known Texas congressman seeking the Republican nomination for president visited Spartanburg on Saturday and seemed to arrive with all the makings of rock-star candidate for his party — despite polling low, little name recognition and a relatively small campaign staff.

Supporters call it the “Ron Paul Revolution.” You might’ve seen it on signs or T-shirts. Or MySpace.

Paul received no less than 16 standing ovations during his hour-plus speech and question-and-answer session at the Summit Pointe Event Center — first, when he entered the room, a second one when a re-entered after doing a quick television interview and a third when he was formally introduced.

Thunderous applause also followed when he decried the Patriot Act (ovation No. 4), when he said America should never go to war without a declaration from Congress or because of a United Nations resolution (ovation Nos. 8 and 9), and when he attacked President Bush’s foreign policy and handling of the war in Iraq (ovation Nos. 11, 12 and 13).

“No nation building. No policing of the world. Peace is popular,” Paul said. “The sooner we get out of Iraq, the fewer Americans will die. And I say, it’s time to come home.”

About 400 people — half from out of state — were shoehorned into Summit Pointe for a barbecue luncheon that doubled as a fundraiser for the Spartanburg County Republican Party. The local GOP, after expenses, made an estimated $5,000 on the event.

Paul was invited to speak to the local party faithful (they numbered about 80 in the crowd) after county chairman Rick Beltram took offense at Paul’s explanation of the 9/11 attacks as “blowback” from America’s past intervention in the affairs of other countries during a GOP debate. That led to a widely distributed online tit-for-tat between Beltram and Paul supporters, and Beltram eventually invited Paul here to explain himself.

Blowback, in and of itself, was not mentioned Saturday, though Paul often alluded to it, going as far back as World War I, “which (President) Woodrow Wilson got us into unnecessarily, and drew the lines in the Middle East that we’re suffering for today.”

Beltram said he agreed with Paul on most issues except foreign policy, and that he believes the Texan converted some Upstaters to his revolution with Saturday’s speech.

“I left feeling like a hero,” Beltram said. “I got more positive comments after that event than all the other presidential events combined.”

[OCCASparky]

And that’s only cause of the “Free Bongs!” sign out front.

[DreamsofPolycarp]

As always there should be a paulette buffon alert on these threads

Ah, I now see. You have competition. Get lormand in here and we will have Curly Moe and Shemp as a triumvirate.

We are capitalists here, and thus believe that competition among the clowns raises buffoonery to its sterling apex.

We applaud you.

[DJ MacWoW]

Just what is wrong with the magic of that old Reagan message anyway?

Reagan knew who our enemies were. Carter lost to him because of the Iran hostage crisis. Carter tried appeasement and it didn't work. Clinton ignored them and it didn't work. Pauls stand shows that he does NOT understand radical muslims.

[italianquaker]

I will tire of it when paul apologizes to America for blaming her for 9-11 until then he will be the BUFFOON

[Designer]

"My only real problem with Paul is his apparent disregard for the words of those saying they want to kill us."

Uhh...err...Paul is the only one who is actually listening to their words.

Word! CC, where ya been?

Paul and his supporters have been flamed for saying "he is listening" to the Islamo-facists.

Now here you come with that! LOL!

BTW; since some folks seem to keep on forgetting the fact that the Islamo-facist terrorists actually started out killing our troops OVER THERE, but naturally, the globalists have refused to learn anything from that.

[Dr.Deth]

Join the Don Paul Revolution.

[federal]

So we shouldn’t fight them in Iraq? Is that your answer?

Look I don’t trust or absolve the Saudi’s anymore than anyone else, That is why I think the middle east has to be reformed and I agree with the opinion that Iraq is the place to start.

[Dr.Deth]

I'm tired of trying to figure out "Why do they hate us," like the WashDotComPost was asking yesterday. I really don't care anymore about that.

What I'm asking these days is: "Why don't they fear us?"

[BlackElk]

If Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., David Dellinger, Tokyo Rose, Axis Sally et al. were still alive, they would be just delighted with paleoPaulie. If Ronaldus Magnus were still alive, he would break his own rule and speak ill of paleoPaulie or define him out of the GOP. We are conservatives and patriots and not paleopacifist kneejerk libertoonian dipsticks or paleopacifist kneejerk libertoonian whatevers.

Under what name is Hanoi Jane contributing to paleoPaulie?

Will Noam Chmosky be his White House Chief of Staff or Secretary of State? (no, because paleoPaulie won't be hiring anyone for positions in an administration not his own.

As Ronaldus Maximus himself would say: There they go again, trying to compare the paleowuss to Reagan.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Just as al-Qaeda uses our presence on the holy land of Saudi Arabia to recruit Saudis and North Africans to travel via Damascus to kill our soldiers and slaughter the Iraqis.

So, what you are basically saying is that US foreign policy should be dictated, not by our own national interests, but by the whims and desires of Islamist thugs?

I vote for the Thomas Jefferson approach instead: Take the war to theIslamists, use whatever force is necessary to achieve victory, and then come home.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

Uhh...err...Paul is the only one who is actually listening to their words.

That is true. So, Ron Paul is actually even worse than how cripplecreek portrays him to be because Ron Paul listens to what the Islamists have said they want to do to America and the West, and purposefully chooses to bury his head in the sand. Which is why I would never, in a million years, support a first-rate cowardly idiot like Ron Paul.

[Designer]

"Look I don’t trust or absolve the Saudi’s anymore than anyone else, That is why I think the middle east has to be reformed.."

"Whether they want it or not!"

This is a good example of the globalist type of thinking that has gotten us into the mess we are in now.

Congratulations, federal, for adhering to the globalist line.

I'm sure there will be some sort of "reward" waiting for you in the New World Order.

Or not.

[CJ Wolf]

“Take the war to theIslamists, use whatever force is necessary to achieve victory, and then come home.”

So you agree with Ron Paul then.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

“Take the war to theIslamists, use whatever force is necessary to achieve victory, and then come home.”

So you agree with Ron Paul then.

No, because Ron Paul leaves out the very necessary first part - taking the war to the Islamists. Ron Paul and other paulolibertarians want the Islamists to come here and car bomb a few shopping malls, so that we can then have a nice low level guerilla war all over the country for about ten years.

[federal]

Hey I no globalist I’m a American if you knew me you would know that. Take your weak a$$ BS somewhere else.

[Designer]

"What I'm asking these days is: "Why don't they fear us?"

This must be a rhetorical question, correct?

The obvious answer, should anyone care, is this:

Where suicide in the act of retribution is considered an honor, fear does not enter the equation.

[montag813]

(sixteen standing ovations!)

[CJ Wolf]

No he doesn’t want us to wait. He wants to hunt them down.

He wanted an actual ‘war’ so we can declare ‘victory’ and come home. But that’s not happened since the 1940s in this country.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Why do you always post on these threads, then?

Let us wackos and buffoons have our fun, OK?

[WhiteGuy]

Bump for Dr. Paul