Posted on 07/23/2007 7:58:41 AM PDT by 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 mightve 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 Bushs 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, its 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 Pauls explanation of the 9/11 attacks as blowback from Americas 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 were 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 Saturdays speech.
I left feeling like a hero, Beltram said. I got more positive comments after that event than all the other presidential events combined.
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Well if Fred said that I honestly don't see why anyone on this site would support him.
I take solace in the fact that his basement showing will prevail. With Hunter, Thompson and even Romney in the mix we should be just fine. Like I said , while his message resonates in many areas, Republican faithful are going to think twice when they look to their side and see some DU or MoveOn idiot with a Ron Paul 2008 sign.
Why do you support an Islamist military invasion of the mainland United States? That's awfully treasonous of you.
Is it for the same reason that you support continued Military and Financial aid to the ruling Islamic Theocracy in Iraq, which is dominated by the psychopathic gang of murderers known as the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI) and the Islamic Al Dawa Party, who are the very same Islamic Terrorist Parties which bombed the US & French Embassies in Kuwait, and murdered 241 United States Marines in Beirut in 1983? Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, of the Al Dawa Party, was the Bureau Chief of the Al Dawa Party's terrorist "Jihad Office" in Damascus in the 1980s and was thus heavily responsible for Al Dawa operations in Beirut, while parliament member Jamal Jafaar Mohammed of his ruling coalition is one of the "Kuwait 17", still under a Kuwaiti death sentence (in absentia) for his direct involvement in the vicious attack on the US Embassy in Kuwait! And you, BLackElk, support giving Military and Financial support to these Terrorist Scum, and are now advocating an Islamist military invasion of the mainland United States!
I'm afraid that I'm going to have to catalog your evil post #253 on my Home-Page, so that whenever you post on a "Ron Paul" thread again I can post a DonMorgan style "ASH ALERT" referencing your call for an Islamist invasion of the United States so that everyone reading the thread will know just what a traitorous disruptor you really are.
Italianquaker has been calling for a "buffoon alert" on Ron Paul threads. Thanks to your post #253, whenever you show up on a Ron Paul thread again, be assured that there will be one.
Actually that is called a prediction, not a fact.
Would you support Ron Paul if he wins the nomination?
Thankfully I will never have to face such an eventuality.
I’d point out that he said no such thing, that it was sarcastic but I think I would be wasting my time.
I’d point out that he said no such thing, that it was sarcastic but I think I would be wasting my time.
Oh, I answered that before you posted.
No, it is called a prediction. Predictions are not reality, if they were then they wouldn't be predictions.
"Said no such thing?"
I am quoting his own words, exactly.
And as far as I am concerned, they will be cast in his teeth whenever he shows his traitorous mug on a Ron Paul thread again.
But right or wrong, whether the guy has a point or not, considering that he is running for the Republican nomination, perhaps he should have kept it to himself for now until he had the position to peddle it.
Okey Dokey...
Hey BlackE, looks like you’re a marked man...
I tried to get your back...
Que Twlight Zone music...
And I will.
Oh, in the for what its worth category, since you are taking his quote of out of context and all, isn’t that what this Paul thing was all about.
But I see irony is already lost on you....
Personally I have no problem with them taking the liberal portion of California, they are doing it any ways, either the mooselimbs or the illegals ;-)
Yes, you can beat me with that too.
Hmmm... do tell -- so, you are admitting that you deliberately quote Ron Paul out of context in order to serve your own malicious partisanship?
I appreciate your honesty.
I however, do not believe that I am taking BlackElk's #253 "out of context". He said what he said, and I am quoting it. It's right there, in all its nauseating stench, for anyone to read.
I could make out that you advocate the wholesale arrest and or slaughter of the entire Iraqi government, plus a large portion of the population since in your screed above you point out that there are individuals with terrorist ties in the government. Hell, it's the middle east, the journey from terrorist to statesman usually involves putting on an Armani suit. That is the team we deal with because that's who is there. Or do we kill them all, is wholesale genocide the answer?
I advocate withdrawal of all US Military and Financial support from the Terrorist-Thug Regime of Theocratic Iraq (which defines Iraqi Christians, my co-religionists, as Second-Class Citizens due to its wicked Constitution making Islam the Established Religion of the State), and letting the Shi'ite Terrorists and the Sunni Terrorists kill eachother without US intervention.
"Slaughter of the entire Iraqi government, plus a large portion of the population"? Yup, I have no problem with Shi'ite Terrorists and Sunni Terrorists killing eachother in Iraq. I think we should leave, and let them do so.
And you can quote me on that.
No need. I doubt it will come up in my regular travels.
I’m not sue why you sent this to me, I suppose you didn’t read my posts in this thread. I supported the WOT from the beginning and I support it now.
Okay. See ya.
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