“What, me worry about terrorist boogie-men?”
Posted on 10/03/2007 7:03:51 AM PDT by traviskicks
Edited on 10/03/2007 7:51:05 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
So, I’m a Ronbot. According to certain denizens of the web lurking in their shadowy corners of the blogosphere, there are many of us Ronbots out there, but not too many. No, if there were too many if us, if we were more than say one or two percent of the population, then that would shatter the world view of some of these Internet denizens. We are a small Ronbot army, somehow controlled by this mystical deity and granted the magical ability to be able to hijack Internet, phone and other polls meant to give viewers of debates a voice of who won said debate. Come to think of it, according to some pundits, there are only a few of us who are very smart and know how to spam these polls. Ok, ok, I admit it, I’m the only real Ron Paul supporter and I’ve been creating all this hubbub and spam on my old turbo charged Atari 800 computer.
But seriously, think about this term Ronbot for a minute. It’s a term some clever blogomatic coined in an attempt to minimize the power of Ron Paul’s message. It’s a term that intimates that Ron Paul supporters aren’t real people, that they are some form of mindless zombie sent into the cyber world to disrupt and distract from the normal operations of the Internet. It’s meant to suggest that Ron Paul supporters have been programmed by his campaign to infiltrate the Internet encampments of the establishment and shake them up a little. What strikes me as ironic is that Ron Paul detractors will accuse his supporters of blindly following without thought, when it seems to me it is they who have blindly followed the establishment for years without question. It is they who continue to follow the leader down the road paved with corporate dollars as they support one candidate or another who get the majority of their contributions from special interests. They are the ones supporting candidates that have been bought and paid for by the corporate elite. They are the ones supporting the candidacies of the very rich who know nothing of what it’s like to struggle to earn a living.
There is something else that seems to be happening. On the streets, real people with real lives are showing their support for Ron Paul. These are not keyboard pundits sitting behind their monitors hurtling insults into cyber space at those who disagree with them, these are men and women with real jobs and real families making real decisions about their future. They don’t want the government in it. They want to make their own choices. They want real freedom. I’ve talked to people. I’ve talked to the mechanic at the oil change place. I’ve talked to the farmer in the waiting room there. I’ve talked to the clerk behind the counter at the drugstore. I’ve talked to my coworkers. These are common folk, but they still have their dreams. They have silently pledged their support for Ron. They understand his message and realize it is a message of hope and of positive change. They realize that the best thing for the common good, the best way to protect our children and their progeny, is to respect the individual’s rights and the God given freedoms spelled out for us in the constitution. They understand that it is best for all concerned for the United States of America stop trying to be an empire, to stop building nations, to end the wars, and to bring its soldiers home. These are not Ronbots, but they are the politically dispossessed that the system and the pundits have left out of the equation. They are the people the talking heads on TV are forgetting about when they spew out their artificially low numbers in their poll results. How else is it that Ron Paul could win or place in so many straw polls if not for such people? How else is it he could raise so much money so quickly without corporate backing? That’s what Ron Paul detractors don’t get, that he is more than just some Internet phenomenon due to fade. He is the real choice of the real common man, not the choice thrust upon on by the elite, self appointed guardians of the American body politic. Real people with real brains who are able to make real choices like his message of a limited, less intrusive federal government that follows the mandates set forth by our founding fathers in the Bill of Rights instead of dictating to us what to think and do. Now that they finally have a candidate that espouses these views instead of pandering to try to be everything to everyone, they are going to support him.
The people using the term Ronbot will in the same breath use the same tired old axioms that have gone unquestioned for far too long to support a policy of war, or of taxes, or of any number of socialistic policies meant to tie down the common man and keep his face pressed to the teat of mommy government. These people have been arguing conservative v liberal in meaningless blogs and now that a candidate shows up with a substantive message of restoring individual liberty, individual responsibility and governmental non-interference in both the markets and personal lives, a message that tears apart both liberal and conservative paradigms, a message that the common man can truly back, they call foul. They cry, “Get out of our face. Don’t come around here screaming about individual liberty and responsibility. We don’t want to hear it. We want the government to take our money and spend it on the war. We want the government to take care of us. We want the government to tax us to the max so we can have free health care. We want to be told what to do. We want to give up our freedom so the terrorist boogie-men don’t get us. We want to be shaken down in the airport by TSA agents. We want dissenters corralled into free speech zones where we don’t have to hear them. Please keep the status quo. We don’t want the government to change. We want the government to decide for us. We’re scared of freedom.” Well now you are going to hear it. The message is being shouted from the rooftops now that a viable candidate is touting that message. It is reverberating across the country and as more people hear and understand it, more people add their voices to the chorus until soon the song will come to a crescendo and we will bring a true measure of freedom back to this country. That, my friends, is not the clamoring of a few mindless followers known as Ronbots, that is the roar of an oncoming tidal wave crashing upon the shores of 21st century America carrying an ideal that was born over two hundred and thirty years ago, an ideal that was thought lost in the socialistic propaganda of the last century but is quickly re-emerging with a force to be reckoned with. The concept of freedom is not easily held back, and given time it will swell and wash away the sands of fascism and socialism that seek to contain it.
I am not a bot of any kind. I have been a believer in freedom and liberty since I can remember. I have been writing about freedom oriented themes since before I even heard of Ron Paul. My writings are archived and available for all to see. I don’t write about Ron Paul because he’s running for president, I write about him because he embodies the ideas I believe in, ideas that made this nation great. I have no delusions that he will obtain office and everything will magically change. He is just one man trying to achieve a position of power that is supposed to be held in check by many other men. He would need the support of many more in congress before smaller government and the repeal of oppressive laws could be accomplished. His supporters would not only have to vote for him as president in 2008, but would also have to vote in other freedom oriented candidates as their representatives and senators. If nothing else, Ron Paul’s candidacy has given us the opportunity to once again discuss the issues of freedom and liberty both in the marketplace and in our personal lives. It would be a wonderful thing to see America once again become a beacon of freedom, a place where one can live by one’s own will without the oppressive yolk of government dragging one down. A Ron Paul presidency would at least be a good start.
If Paul were the nominee, 90 percent of the Republican establishment leadership, including the Big 4 favored by the media, would all en masse endorse HRC.
FYI: he’s raised over $5 million this quarter, half of what Thompson raised, I believe, so don’t count him out quite yet... :)
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“What, me worry about terrorist boogie-men?”
I am hoping that come up with a vaccine for it myself...
You fit that bill to the max. Do you get spam credits from his campaign for waisting bandwidth over here with this crap?
Sorry, I never think of that name when thinking of you guys.
LOL!!!
1) RP is a candidate who's polled 1-3% this campaign. He continues (among the GOP and especially conservatives) to be an 'also ran'. His support among hard core GOP conservatives is NOT going to rise.
2) Most of his recent popularity has been through Democratic fringe elements seeing his message about leaving Iraq as a way to get a wedge into the GOP nomination process. And Ron Paul has done little or nothing to discourage this interest.
3) Because of this, Should Ron Paul become a 3rd party candidate (he says no), he will be more of a draw from the Democrat candidate than from the Republican; that is unless the GOP is foolish enough to nominate a Rudy Giuliani.
As for his 'objective' above, I have my doubts. I'm more pragmatic. He likes the limelight and attention, and sees it as a way to build a relatively decent amount of funds (relative to his past history). But that's just me.
Needless to say we'll never know.
I presume your point is that most Republicans are actually Democrats. Actually, the problem is that Ron Paul is not a Republican, he simply runs as one. He's out of touch with the party who's nomination he desires, that he's not accepted shouldn't surprise anyone.
If I “got it” I would seek the help of mental health professionals to “get rid of it.”
Well, he got another $5 m, this quarter to get his name out there and he is just starting to run tv spots. Last weekend, he had 6-800 supporters in N.H. going door to door for him.
$5 M is not much to most of the leading campaigns, but Ron Paul doesn’t have an army of advisers, pollsters, advance men, etc. So it more like $10 M for any other campaign. Plus Ron Paul gets a ton of free advertising from his supporters. Most of the Ron Paul signs, you see, were purchased or made by his supporters.
it’s ok to be a Ronbot.
It’s also ok to be a TB or Typhoid carrier..... if qurantined to save the innocent.
Ron Paul is nothing but an excellent asset of Hillary Clinton and of Islamic terrorists worldwide.
Speaking of which, was that you who posted all those "keywords"?
We get it...put the kool-aid down and back away from your condescending soap box.
Ron is a loon...we know one when we see one...and we recognize his glassy eyed lemmings.
Also remember that the Democrats have not broken 50% of the popular vote since 1976, and it has happened only twice in the last 60 years. (Fact shamelessly stolen from Rush’s show today).
Clinton Inc. needs a 3rd candidate, and despite his similarities to Dennis Kucinich, Ron Paul will hurt the GOP more than Clinton Inc. in ‘08
That confirms my point #2, that they're trying to make this a wedge issue among the GOP. But I don't buy the idea it'll take votes away from conservatives. In the primaries? Yes. But it's the general election that counts and there's no way RP will be the GOP nominee.
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