Posted on 12/02/2007 9:00:33 PM PST by NormsRevenge
It was Rudy Giuliani campaigning for president on the Marietta Square on Sunday afternoon, but anyone listening may well have thought the candidate's name was Ron Paul.
"RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!" — a crowd chanted from Glover Park, effectively drowning out comments from the former New York mayor and occasionally changing the chant to "FREEDOM! FREEDOM! FREEDOM!"
The younger crowd of Paul supporters had stronger, or maybe more enthusiastic, lungs than the middle-aged crowd of Giuliani's gaggle, who responded with a college try — "Rudy! Rudy! Rudy!" — while the Paul cadres tailed the GOP front runner on his walking photo op in downtown Marietta.
The Paul backers, handing out their own candidate's literature, said they were more interested in a president who would truly try to shrink government, not just promise to do it, and who promises outright to bring the troops home from Iraq.
You're being very inconsiderate," an elderly woman, aghast at the lack of Southern manners, told three young female Paul acolytes.
"You're not helping your candidate with this," a middle-aged man told a 20-something man toting a blue-and-white Paul campaign sign.
"This is a Republican rally," a testy older man snapped, apparently forgetting that Paul, a physician and Libertarian by philosophy, is an elected Republican and running in the GOP primary for president.
His supporters simply answered, "RON PAUL! RON PAUL! RON PAUL!"
"We just came by to say, 'Hey,' " said Rob Miller, a 35-year-old Paul supporter with a mischievous grin, who with his cohorts said their candidate would trounce Giuliani in the New Hampshire primary.
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The final proof will be in the primary voting. Until then FReepers will gnash teeth.
And I’m supposed to be convinced to vote for someone who attracts such inconsiderate and rude jerks?
I’ve run across some of the Paul “ground troops” in various locales around the country.
All I can say about them is that “drunk and stupid” is no way to go through life...
Ronnutters strike again! These people are their own worst enemies.
‘But a Paul supporter, Craig Hatcher, a 33-year-old Navy veteran who lives in Powder Springs, said of Giuliani, “I wouldn’t necessarily say he is a liberal. I’d say he is more of a statist who wants the government to run our lives.”’
Duh.
If people can’t be bothered to come out to support Rudy, what makes anyone think they’ll roll out of bed on Tuesday morning to vote for him?
‘Brumby predicted Giuliani would run the best nationally of the Republican field, but he wasn’t sure how he would do in Georgia or Cobb County, where many party faithful have balked at the twice-divorced politician’s past of supporting gun control and abortion rights.’
If this is the level of intelligence of Paul supporters, they’re even bigger morons than I thought. Maybe a bunch of people shouting a candidates’ name over and over would convince THEM to vote for someone, but most people have a little more on the ball than that.
Ping!
Then there’s Romney’s supporters, who bought a straw poll with hundreds of dollars of votes per supporter.
Talk about “spam...”
Who’s doing better in the polls?
Romney’s going to have to get a paper route to pay himself back all the money he’s loaned himself to buy votes.
Hey, he's a leveraged buyout guy. He's just doing what he knows. /s
I’ll respond to your post on January 9, when the first poll that means anything is completed.
I watched a bit of Ron Paul being interviewed on CNN and he sounded like a Democratic moonbat at least on the subject of Iraq and the war on terror.
Hillary Clinton is much further to the right than Paul on foreign policy.
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