Posted on 12/12/2007 10:42:48 AM PST by mnehring
Those in the YouTube crowd may have seen the clip of supporters of fringe Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul (dubbed "Paultards" by Wonkette) inundating a recent San Francisco Republican Alliance straw poll. The unexpected cavalcade of Paul people led organizer Gail Neira to call the whole thing off.
While observing outraged Paul advocates roaring "You're a disgrace!" at a flustered woman wearing a Santa hat is its own special kind of funny, that was far from the only hoot. The real joke was that the Paul people wasted their outrage lambasting Neira as a representative of the dishonorable party establishment. You see, the Republican Alliance isn't even recognized by the Republican Party as an affiliated organization. That probably comes as news to a lot of Paulsters, who have made stacking local party straw polls a specialty. A bulletin on the Ron Paul Meetup Web site before the event implored them to "Come to this important San Francisco GOP Straw Poll and VOTE!"
"We had the feeling that this was a Republican Party event and, as Republicans, we were welcome," said Paul supporter Aaron Voisine of Santa Clara — who was apparently wrong on both counts.
While Neira is a member of San Francisco's GOP Central Committee, she has what can charitably be described as a combative relationship with her counterparts. In fact, in March she was censured by her colleagues for criticizing another committee member.
"They don't like me," she said of her fellow central committee members. "They really don't like me. I'll admit that."
Several committee members contacted by SF Weekly accused Neira of consistently attempting to "hijack" other Republican groups and exclude candidates not of her liking from political forums. So for Paul supporters to, in essence, hijack her event — well, you can see the irony. "Oh, that is payback," chortled Leo Lacayo, vice chairman of communications for the county central committee.
Neira says being accused of hijacking events is the kind of response Republicans have when "you're a woman who's not willing to stay in a more submissive, subordinate role."
Four committee members say they were shocked when Neira announced at the last meeting that she wouldn't be inviting supporters of candidates she didn't like to her private Dec. 4 straw poll. Neira's rationale: It's her shindig and she'll invite whom she wants. And she didn't want Rudy Giuliani's crowd. "I resent any man of his stature who has disrespect for women," she sniffs. "I can invite whomever I please. It's my money and my party."
Ping, this is good for several dozen laughs.
We don’t call him L Ron Paul for nothing. The whole thing reminds me a lot of the Church of $cientology.
Ron Paul has always claimed his Libertarian beliefs. He’s RINO even if some of his positions match those of Republicans. He runs under the party banner Republican because it is where the money is.
I do not know why he is in the GOP primary. He has already said that if he does not get the nomination, he’s not interested in supporting any of the candidates.
But it does wonders for the Leftists who want to disrupt the GOP primary polls and debates.
Actually, he did say he would consider voting for one candidate, his good friend Dennis Kucinich. AuntB, do you have the link to that quote?
You know, if you spent half as much time promoting your own candidate as you do bashing Paul, you might actually get your candidate of choice a couple more votes. Perhaps you should embrace that strategy.
SF GOP????? Isn’t that an oxymoron?? Stretches credulity to say the least.
What bash? This is simple reporting news articles. :->
Concerned the truth about your hero is coming out more and more?
Do you have evidence that he’s my hero? Or do you have evidence that your endless anti-Paul spam is just boring many of us to tears? You don’t like Ron Paul. That’s great. Who do you like? Tell us about that candidate and why we should vote for him.
We can't post Wired here so you'll have to head over there.
Works for me.
-------------------------------------------------------- Me, too -- except she lost a lot of my sympathy when she started this silly BS:
"Neira says being accused of hijacking events is the kind of response Republicans have when "you're a woman who's not willing to stay in a more submissive, subordinate role."
Sounds too much like Hillary with her victimhood.
I think your comments are evidence enough. As for who I support, my comments on most articles about the real candidates pretty much are clear I support Thompson. Paul is more for entertainment purposes. Its mostly fun to see the cult get their panties in a wad.
Hey. That's we do here at FR--bash, bash, bash, 24/7. Leave no one unabashed. You might even get bashed. I've gotten to like it.
"Many" of us isn't all of us.
Personally, I found this article hilarious. We all need a good laugh now and then and Paultards have a knack for providing that, if not much else.
I meant Republican candidates.
Uh..this is a thread on a posted story of Paul supporters acting like idiots. If you don't want to discuss this then find another thread. "Spamming" would be doing exactly what you are suggesting, hyping a candidate on a thread that is not about them.
I guess that LaRouche(D) must not be running this time around. Someone had to fill the void.
Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding . . . We have a winner!!!!!
Ironic isn't it?
Well, if it walks like a duck...
But that would be insulting to ducks everywhere. Sorry.
QUESTIONER: “Congressman, if you were not running, right now, for office, is there a current candidate that you would identify with most and who would you vote for yourself?”
RP: “... there’s been some that hinted that they might run... that’s Chuck Hagel... I don’t know a lot about his other programs, but because foreign policy to me is so important”
“... on the Democratic side, it just happens that Dennis Kucinich is a good friend of mine”
———————see the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPindngYxvk
Hey, we all need to take off a little time for entertainment...
Speak for yourself. Ron PaulPot bashing is a vocation for me.
A “higher” calling I would suspect...
Or is that calling out the “high’...
>Sounds too much like Hillary with her victimhood.
She certainly does push her own personal female & Mexican credentials
Woman, woman, hispanic, hispanic. - bye, bye.
From her own web posting:
Party: Republican
Occupation: Businessowner/Corporation Director
Ethnic relations marketing & news publisher
Nation’s first Hispanic-American woman news publisher-owner
Nation’s first Hispanic-American woman who served as a public affairs attache for an Asian embassy in the ‘70’s
Nation’s first & youngest Hispanic-American Republican major campaign co-chair
San francisco’s first Hispanic-American woman with social and cultural diverse civic volunteerism
San Francisco Republican Party’s first and only major leadership activist
http://www.smartvoter.org/2002/11/05/ca/state/vote/neira_g/
No offense taken...
Aaron Voisine has a d'ho! moment.
But Ronnie and his followers just keep writing the jokes for us!
Hehehehehe..........little angry we expose Paul’s supporters for the nutjobs, lunatic fringe, disruptive fools they are? If you are so upset about it, why post on the thread, thus inviting anti-Paul freepers to post to you?
None implied!
‘Its mostly fun to see the cult get their panties in a wad.’
Those not wearing thong underwear, anyway....(chuckle)
I find that very curious. For the past several weeks I have received numerous pieces of campaign literature in the mail from Ron Paul. Today’s piece of literature is completely devoted to Ron Paul’s commitment to pro-life values. It seems to me that if he so strongly values human life, he wouldn’t so quickly suggest voting for candidates who are totally and unreservedly pro-abortion.
Sci-en-Paul-ogy has a nice ring to it.
Current law defines a political committee as any group whose major purpose is to influence the outcome of elections, and which receives $1,000 in contributions or makes the same amount in expenditures within a calendar year.
but I could see the media selling pieces of ads for the candidate of one's choice. George Soros will take $10,000,000 for Hillary, thank you much. I'll buy 1/2 second of a Thompson ad.
It's my understanding that independent expenditures of $250 or more must be reported to the FEC, that should make for some interesting reading. Since corporations can't make independent expenditures, I wonder how the blimp folks are organized. Don't know if it will fly, a substantial profit would be a help their efforts to be seen as a for profit company rather than trying to influence the elections outcome. Do they have a disclaimer on the blimp?
Paid for by the XYZ PAC and not authorized by any candidate or candidate’s committee.
Contact us at: XYZ PAC,
203 First Street SE, Washington, DC 20001
ScienPaulogy/ScienPaulogists, I like that.
Only if you’re a PaulPot/Bot. I kinda like the ‘Pot’ better. It seems more suitable for some reason.
So we shouldn't waste our time bashing Cindy Sheehan, Sean Penn, Hugo Chavez and other enemies of America, like Ron Paul?
Perhaps you shouldn't waste our time defending an Al Qaeda dupe like Ron Paul?
“But that would be insulting to ducks everywhere. Sorry.”
We can’t insult the loons either.
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