Photograph of Headquarters

Ron Paul 2008 ^ | August 29, 2007 | Ron Paul

[Conservative4Ever]

Naaaa...just the campaign is a train wreck.

[George W. Bush]

No the Republican party has returned to its original roots. Big government Hamiltonian hacks...

Nah, just Clay Whigs with a garland of Wilsonian internationalism. Season with a dash of Junkerism.

[Conservative4Ever]

Ya’ll are soooooo bad, but sooooooo funny.

[George W. Bush]

The World's Ugliest Dog 2006. Passed away last November. You ought to see the new World's Ugliest Dog. Sam's website is below.

Sam, World's Ugliest Dog

[Xenalyte]

Sam has haunted my dreams since someone posted him on FR last year or the year before.

And not in a good way.

[George W. Bush]

At the very least this belongs in Breaking News. :)

I think we need a new category: UberNews. Something even more earthshattering than Breaking News. A category just for news of biblical proportion that has only threads about imminent nuclear attacks on the United States, giant asteroids inbound in the next two hours, etc. And, of course, threads like this one with a photo of Ron Paul headquarters.

[Jean S]

Ron Paul doesn't have a chance in hell of becoming President. You know it, I know it and all rational freepers know it.

Quit beating a dead horse, you're embarassing yourself.

[elizabetty]

RP's campaign staff expanded from 8 to over 30 recently

For the whole country?

[George W. Bush]

Quit beating a dead horse, you're embarassing yourself.

Not at all. The Ron Paul threads are the biggest on FreeRepublic. Even threads like this one are useful.

[elizabetty]

I've noticed there's never a discussion of any of his stances, other than non-continuance of the police action.

Comments like this make all other Ron Paul stances irrelevant to 99.99% of people on Free Republic.

[mysterio]

Wow. What is going on with those keywords?

[elizabetty]

The Ron Paul threads are the biggest on FreeRepublic

It is rubbernecking, NOT support.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

A little fixer upper? In need of a hanyman?

[submarinerswife]

There is a section for this kind of post. It’s called GENERAL CHAT.

Or

NOBODY GIVES A DAMN SINCE HE WILL BE BROKE SOON General Chat.

[thefactor]

"Headquarters?!? What is it?"

"Well, it's a big building where the generals sit, but that's not important right now."

[A message]

LOL

[Recovering Hermit]

I wonder how many heart attacks Sam is directly responsible for?

[SlowBoat407]

[George W. Bush]

For the whole country?

Those are full-time paid staff from what I've read. I don't think all of them work there because I know we opened an office in Iowa but probably there are only a few folks there with some volunteers. Of course, we have over 30,000 activists already and will reach 40,000 by October. Last night, for instance, when the D.C. chapter was FReeping MoveOn, our little band led by Karsten5 tried to convert the Pasadena MoveOns to support Ron Paul. In the entire country, only two FReeps going on. And I think the RP folk in Pasadena might have been the larger group though there is no word yet on the D.C. event. Looking at the D.C. event thread, I assume Kristin went and two others indicated they were going. You have to assume Raoul was there if he's breathing. But then, we have pictures of the RP folk, nothing from the D.C. event (yet).

We never pretended we could have or even wanted an entire army of paid staff. Romney's staff, for instance, was just characterized by American Chronicle as "Indeed, former Massachusetts Governor Willard Romney’s campaign has become a literal welfare agency in order to win votes." And that is exactly what sucked all of McStain's money up as well. Romney is just wealthy enough to keep loaning money to his campaign and McStain isn't. It shows something about the rest of the candidate field: no one loves their guy that much. At least, not like Ron Paul's supporters do.

The article will probably get posted here later. It's about how determined activists can actually win primaries for their candidate and how lackluster the other GOP campaigns are in comparison. You see it here at FR too. People who only sit around tearing down other people's candidate (and not just Ron Paul) by the hundreds of hours, never lifting a finger to help their own candidate (if they have one), sitting on their fat hineys in front of their computer, certain they can thereby summon their Republican savior by typing ever more nasty crap on a rightwing Web 1.0 message board.

Win or lose, it won't be FreeRepublic that picks the nominee or exerts any real influence. So these threads don't hurt Ron Paul. They do hurt FreeRepublic IMO but that's JimRob's business. However, they do help us in other ways. Even this thread and others which are far nastier.

American Chronicle: Bringing Politics Back to the People - The Do-It-Yourself Campaign of Ron Paul