Posted on 09/17/2011 8:41:32 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
This weekend, the California Republican Party had its 2011 Fall Convention at the JW Marriott Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. One presidential candidate, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, spoke at a dinner on Friday night, and Saturday morning's breakfast featured two more contenders: Michigan Rep. Thaddeus McCotter and Texas Rep. Ron Paul. Paul's fans were out in force both outside the hotel -- awaiting his arrival -- and inside the ticketed Lincoln Clubs Breakfast. He spoke last and was late, allowing McCotter to add a question-and-answer period to his prepared remarks (more on that later, check back). McCotter is also on the roster of speakers for Sunday's Beverly Hills Tea Party, to be held from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Beverly Hills Park on Santa Monica Blvd. Raucous cheers and whistles and whoops and screams -- one could be forgiven for wondering.... ...if they were for an elderly 11-term House politician or Justin Bieber -- announced Paul's presence outside the doors. He then entered to another round of cheers and camera flashes. (Paul is also hoping for a warm reception online, using the occasion of Constitution Day, the anniversary of the signing of the document on Sept. 17, 1787, to launch another 24-hour fundraising money bomb.) Several breakfasters videotaped portions of Paul's speech, which likely would be familiar to anyone who's heard him the previous two times he ran for president -- in 1988 on the Libertarian Party ticket and 2008 in the Republican field.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimesblogs.latimes.com ...
It pains me to write this but my youngest daughter likes Paul. I do know why, all she knows is the PR, she does not know who he really is. (She is not an ignorant or stupid young woman but she is blind to Paul - now that I do not get)
He won't be.
He'll get his usual, fringey single-digit percentage of the primary votes.
Paul’s base is young people. It’s the popular thing to do. (Sort of like the Kinky Freidman campaign in Texas.)
She’ll grow out of it.
He looks like he’s doing the Macarena in that picture.
Paultards love nature in spite of what it’s done to them. They’re the skidmarks on the boxers of politics. All have delusions of adequacy. There’s more intelligence in Larry Flint’s colostomy bag than a stadium full of Paulbots. Most Paultards are ex-convicts. The rest are mental patients. Ron Paul is 1,000,000,000,000 times more likely to run amok than to run America.
Ron Paul 2012, Dude!"
McCotter is a Rep from MI and is on Red Eye from time to time.
http://www.issues2000.org/Thad_McCotter.htm
You’ll even find them spamming things that have nothing to do with politics. I encountered some of them on some page about computer games once.
At least two of Paul’s supports at the straw poll voted for President Obama, but are disappointed by the results.
According to MSNBC, one husband and wife couple defected from the Democratic Party:
“Both of us voted for Obama in 2008,” said Monica Wattana, an emergency care doctor.
“We kind of fell for the, ‘Change We Can Believe In,’ “ said her husband, Brian Wilson, an engineer. He laughed.
Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/311643#ixzz1YHt2uCSe
It is akin to criticizing Churchill for not gaining power in Great Britain in time to stop Hitler grabbing the Rhineland, or Austria, or the Sudetenland, or the rest of Czechoslovakia. It is akin to criticizing Churchill for not succeeding in getting power in Great Britain when he cried alarm because Germany has surpassed England in air power, land forces, submarines. These critics might do well to remember Churchill's words upon his ascension to Prime Minister when these follies had led England to the brink of the greatest calamity in her history:
"My warnings over the last six years had been so numerous, so detailed, and were now so terribly vindicated, that no one could gainsay me. " The Gathering Storm
To those flippant posters who tell me that Ron Paul cannot be nominated, I ask you to recall that no one could believe the Churchill could become prime minister. To critics of Ron Paul, I ask you to tell me who among the candidates has had more influence on the debate in the last few election cycles than Ron Paul? Who among the candidates in the last few election cycles has been more "terribly vindicated" than Ron Paul?
If I ask you if he has opened your eyes to the condition of the Federal Reserve Bank, would you deny it? If I asked you, whose warnings about debt and spending have been "so numerous and so detailed" has to have been more prescient? If I ask you whether the party has moved on the issue of Afghanistan toward or away from Ron Paul, would you admit that he is winning that debate? Would you deny at least movement is in his direction?
If I ask you, is the conservative consensus concerning American security commitments abroad moving toward or away from Ron Paul, would you admit that he is gaining ground?
Ron Paul himself knows that he has no chance of getting the nomination as well as any of us. Obviously, is not in the game for the nomination but to achieve what he is achieving every day: to change policy.
Make no mistake, I do not support Ron Paul and I have explicitly posted many times that he will not and should not get the nomination because of his foreign policy and defense posture. But there is much of what he has to say internationally which we should look at twice. We already are in his camp domestically. Internationally, the reality of our fiscal profligacy is going to drive us into a position whether we like it or not in line with Ron Paul's demand that we conserve our resources and focus them on domestic defense.
I part with Ron Paul and his blame America first tendencies. I join Ron Paul in warning about our overreach. I certainly join Ron Paul is Jeremiah against domestic profligacy. He is no Churchill but his warnings are being terribly vindicated with every new headline. America is in desperate fiscal danger and Ron Paul has selflessly put himself in the place where he knows he will be ridiculed in the hope of staving off the calamity.
Ron Paul is a man who has got very much right and he deserves better treatment on this thread. Despite his blame America first reflexes, I deemed him a patriot who is rendering us great service.
He’s the great-grandfather she never had.
Ron Paul has over and over won the small polls, the local TV station newscast pools and radio station sponsored ones.
He has continuously LOST the polls sponsored by the MSM and the republican party apparatus.
What does that tell you?
It’s all the same.
The banks, the media, the government, the conglomerates...
Nobody is “represented” anymore because whoever gets elected can make way, way, way more by kissing up to people who have way, way, way deeper pockets than J6P.
I saw the fraud, I saw the coercion, I saw the bribery 20 years ago. Maybe someday I will vote again.
No wonder the CA GOP is doing so “well.”
The Paulbots are in for a rude awakening once the primaries begin.
Those types of comparisons can flow until the cows come home... but Ron Paul has a small group of raucous fans and nothing beyond it.
He`s not going to be elected president of the US. Ever.
ROFL!!
Grumpy Old Men III
That says it all about the irrelavence of the GOP in California.
May as well forget about the formerly “Golden State”.
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