Wild Shrimp! (Ron Paul's take of Wild Thing)

[Admin Moderator]

I need to remove #35, because of excerpting requirements for that source. If you want to repost, feel free to do so as a link and short excerpt.

[dirtboy]

It’s so laughable to see the ‘machine’ at work in an attempt to discredit or destroy Dr. Paul,

Machine? Not only do Paulites not have a sense of humor, they also are apparently quite paranoid.

I'm just one poster on FR. I'm not part of any machine, nor part of any campaign.

I just parody idiocy when I see it, whether it be Te-RE-za (did a song paroday called "White Raisin") or Ron Paul, who was for the earmark before he voted against it.

[reagan_fanatic]

[ejonesie22]

Hush, they’ll figure it out...

[ejonesie22]

(Must control laughter, must control laughter...)

Aw Hell..

BWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA...

Damn, that’s funny no matter who you are...

[ejonesie22]

Man, and I thought they had a point...

If the Louisiana Purchase had been declared unconstitutional, we could have avoid this whole Katrina mess...

[dirtboy]

Damn, that’s funny no matter who you are...

Unless you're a Ron Paul supporter and have a face marinated with Botox when it comes to humor.

[ejonesie22]

There is this small part of me, the little tinfoil hat guy who lives in the Ron Paul bunker in the back of my head, that thinks these RP supporters are really like 5 guys in an office in Nevada making this crap up and laughing their a**es off...

If so I salute their superior sarcastic talents, I am humbled.

If not, well then his folks really are nuts...

[Dead Corpse]

$16.5 billion is “cheap”?

[Dead Corpse]

His voting record upholds that view as well.

Compare that to Mr. Gun Control Guilani or McCain-Fiengold McCain.

[dblshot]

“condemning Paul simply because he has some pork out there’

Shrimp not pork! Shrimp number 37, pork number 52.

Paul's fortune cookie say, man who run to limit pork should not complain he got no place at trough.

[ejonesie22]

Snicker..

“You been here too rong, you go now, you eat too much...”

[Wyoming Cowboy]

Sorry, I humbly submit the alternate explication that you just ain’t funny. And that this post, as also your initial one, seems to indicate that you favor ad hominem (such an overused word lately) accusations over educated discussion, the latter then being above you. Why if I was to make a purely stereotypical guess, I’d almost take you for a Thompson supporter. I’m sorry if that grossly offends you, as it would me.

[dirtboy]

Sorry, I humbly submit

Ron Paul supporters are also arrogant beyond rational explanation. Their guy is caught being an earmarking fool, yet they rationalize it away.

Why if I was to make a purely stereotypical guess, I’d almost take you for a Thompson supporter. I’m sorry if that grossly offends you, as it would me.

Coming from you, that's a compliment. If I draw flack from someone who supports an anti-war pork-seeking hypocrite, that means I'm over the target. Shrimps away!

[ejonesie22]

You remember my theory a couple of posts back about the 5 dudes in Nevada...

The little guy in my head was wrong...

[SJackson]

I'm just one poster on FR. I'm not part of any machine, nor part of any campaign.

Are you sure, I'm seen and been a target of allusions that there's a conspiracy at FR to undermine Ron Paul. What explanation other than a conspiracy could there be for the lack of support.

Can you prove you're not part of any machine or campaign?

[dirtboy]

Can you prove you're not part of any machine or campaign?

Proving a negative. That should be quite compatible with the logical capacity (or lack thereof) of the average Paulista. :^)

[subterfuge]

$16.5 billion is “cheap”?

No, of course it isn't. But that is my point. Since we are subsidizing the foreign shrimpers they can afford to dump the shrimp here at ultra-low prices. Add in that they don't have to follow the stringent U.S. conservation laws and that makes for an even sweeter deal for the foreign shrimpers.

Shrimp is so cheap in Florida every Denny's, Bennigans and country store has it on "special."

[bamahead]

Reposting original #35, excerpt this time:

Will: What the Founding Fathers Really Intended
Rep. Ron Paul says he can find in the Constitution’s enumeration of the federal powers—Article I, Section 8—no reference to rice.

By George F. Will
Newsweek

Feb. 26, 2007 issue - Some rice farmers from Congressman Ron Paul’s district were in his office the other day, asking for this and that from the federal government. The affable Republican from south Texas listened nicely, then forwarded their requests to the appropriate House committee. It may or may not satisfy their requests in some bill dispensing largesse to agricultural interests. Then Paul will vote against the bill.

He believes, with more stubbornness than evidence, that the federal government is a government of strictly enumerated powers, and nowhere in the Constitution’s enumeration (Article I, Section 8) can he find any reference to rice. So there. “Farm organizations fight me tooth and nail,” he says, “but the farmers are with me.” Of course they can afford to indulge their congressman’s philosophical eccentricity because lots of other House members represent rice farmers, so rice gets its share of gravy. Still, Paul is a likable eccentric, partly because he likes his constituents while disliking what he considers their incontinent appetite for government. Why, “If you ignore what they say about rice, they are nice people.” He would help them by ending the trade embargo with Cuba, to which they used to sell a lot of rice.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17200494/site/newsweek/page/0/

[bamahead]

Actually, you miss the point entirely.. it isn't condemning Paul simply because he has some pork out there.. it is his speaking on one side of his mouth how bad on pork is, on another side of his mouth telling his constituents he will submit their pork requests, and another side of his mouth voting against a bill he told a constituent he would support.. on top of that..

I don't miss it at all. My point is that he openly admits that he works both sides of the fence on earmarks (see #59). So how is that talking out of both sides of his mouth? It's actually more comparable to, talking out of both sides to get your individual points across, and then your opening your WHOLE mouth to tell the full story.

Nutshell: 'The Government is killing the shrimping industry, because we overregulate it, to the point where they need taxpayer money to stay afloat. So here's this proposal, which by the way, isn't within our Constitutional powers to fulfill. Have a nice day.'

That tactic alone, is pretty refreshing to me...with all of the backdoor shenanigans that go on between Washington and K Street in the modern era. 'It's like it is, because we made it that way, and they want us to bail them out, which we really can't do'. It's freaking brilliant.

What's even more compelling to me, is that his constituents, who obviously send him plenty of pork proposals that get submitted and then shot down by the SAME MAN...keep sending that SAME MAN back to office.

Says a lot about the man.