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.”

[BlackElk]

OP: Of course you were referencing me critically by name but sneaking behind the barn by not pinging me but then courage was never the long suit of paleos.

[BlackElk]

I also would not support Mrs. Arkansas Antichrist or Osama bin Bama or the Breck Girl if they had the GOP nomination and even one or two of them probably have more backbone than paleoPaulie. It does not take much to beat nothing and Paulie’s foreign policy of flee in terror is nothing. Fortunately, paleoPaulie will be expunged in the primaries by the patriot base of the GOP.

[SJackson]

You should spend some time reading his columns, I’m sure you’d come around :>)

[George W. Bush]

He supports a small, targeted strike on Osama, and considers Afghanistan a failure, one that simply inflames the Muslims.

Obviously, it is a failure. A country ruled by the Taliban isn't going to become some sweet little democracy in a few years. As soon as we leave, they'll likely revert. And the American public isn't much interested in garrisoning them for fifty years.

[BlackElk]

OP: You are quoting SOME of my words quite selectively. You did not get to the point of what happens to the Islamofascisti when they cut through Muffy, Skipper, paleos and other helpless unarmed peace creeps and get to real America where the guns are and the peace creeps aren't. AND, OP, what credibility do YOU have when you support the paleopeacecreep for POTUS?????

Well, as the Good Book says "All this too shall pass away" simultaneously with the death of the paleopeacecreep's candidacy on the first primary night when he and his love slaves are as thoroughly humiliated as they deserve.

[ejonesie22]

OK, now you are just being mean and spiteful...

Hey man, come and join it here, the Paulettes are buyin'...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1870737/posts?page=633

[BlackElk]

OP: Transcript below of PaleoPaulie windtun....err, supporters at Malibu. For your eyes only:

Muffy: Oh, Skipper, that awful Elk Person is back. First, he was attacking that nice Mr. Schwarzenkennedy for supporting a woman's (all genuflect) right to choose and Bruce's right to marry Lance. Now, he is making fun of that nice Dr. Paul for wanting to end this war, surrender to the Al Qaeda and stop my head from hurting from trying to think! He is just awful. Why doesn't he just go away?????

Skipper: I don't know, Muff. He also has some idea that just because we have trust funds, love polo and regattas and PEACE!!!! at any price, we are not real Republicans, we aren't good Republicans. Maybe our ancestors owned his ancestors (at least in Ireland). Just who does that Black Elk think he is to offer opinions about OUR party, the one our white-shoed ancestors invented to keep his ancestors in peonage? The party that his kind took over under that awful Reagan.

Muffy: Skipper, what if we held a protest rally, invite Christie Todd Babykiller and scream: It's OUR party too?

Skipper: No, Muff, we can't admit that those awful warmongering antiwoman ethnics have anything to do with OUR party. And no one believe it if we claimed it was ONLY our party. If we did, we would seem as unhinged as that nice Mr. Paul or even Orthodox Presbyterian on that awful FR. It just won't do!

Muffy: I know. We can hold a combination spandexed pork sausage walking marathon and ROCK CONCERT FOR PEACE!!!! We can get Cat Stevens and Barbra Streisand and, ummmm, U-2 and and Bono and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Lindsay Lohan and, ummm Paris Hilton...

Skipper: What a great idea to show off our kind of "Republicans" at a ROCK CONCERT FOR PEACE!!!!! What an original idea. Forget the pork sausages. I heard that Muslims don't cater to that and we are defined by avoiding any offense to Osama bin Boomboom.

[OrthodoxPresbyterian]

OP: You are quoting SOME of my words quite selectively.

Look, bub, this kind of trash is indefensible on any level:

If long-knifed Muslims stormed the beaches at Malibu, it would probably be a social improvement over Muffy and Skipper.
253 posted on 07/24/2007 12:26:55 AM PDT by BlackElk

You said it, you get to live with it.

[BlackElk]

You can quote me out of context to your spleen's content. It is not as though anyone takes seriously ANY effort by paleoPaulie or his agitprop agents. Things get like that when you favor peace at any price and reject your nation's interests to support its enemies just like your hero. Being called a traitor by a traitor like you supporting the treasonous weasel paleoPaulie is an honor. Bring it on!

Maybe you should join Muffie and Skipper on the beach. Bring a paleopillow in case there is a knife fight.

[Dr.Deth]

Sounds like OP has his “Quote Of Tonkin” justification for starting a flame war!

[Allegra]

Post #307...ROFL!!

[elkfersupper]

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

What's a buffon?

[SJackson]

Muffy: I know. We can hold a combination spandexed pork sausage walking marathon and ROCK CONCERT FOR PEACE!!!! We can get Cat Stevens and Barbra Streisand and, ummmm, U-2 and and Bono and Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt and Lindsay Lohan and, ummm Paris Hilton...

I'd leave Lindsay off the list, she may have another engagement.

John Mellancamp, he's got kind of a red state personna.

[italianquaker]

buffoon

[JTN]

Just for clarification, the blockquoted portion of that post isn’t by me. I’m not sure that was clear.