Ron And The Giant Blimp
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A 200-foot long blimp encouraging people to "Google Ron Paul," which was paid for by Paul supporters and is not affiliated with his campaign, is presently flying over North Carolina, according to the Associated Press. It "is scheduled to float up the East Coast past major cities," the AP reports.
The blimp marks just the latest example of a Ron Paul initiative that didn't come from Ron Paul. On just one day – November 5th – Paul supporters, in an independent initiative, raised more than $4 million for the presidential campaign of the Libertarian-leaning Republican congressman from Texas.
In the most recent CBS News/New York Times poll, Paul earned the support of 4 percent of Republican primary voters. But despite that relatively small figure, Paul's supporters are unusually passionate and internet savvy, and the candidate, who favors smaller government and opposes the Iraq war, has a disproportionately strong online presence.
He is not a media establishment Neocon like Huckabee, Giuliani, McCain and Hillary. He wants to take the $1 trillion per year we currently spend on foreign adventurism and use it to meet out social obligations at home, repair the infrastructure and pay down the national debt. He says NO to more government intervention and NO to government spying and national ID cards.
Support the Boston Tea Party for Ron Paul on December 16:
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He is not a media establishment Neocon like Huckabee, Giuliani, McCain and Hillary. He wants to take the $1 trillion per year we currently spend on foreign adventurism and use it to meet out social obligations at home, repair the infrastructure and pay down the national debt. He says NO to more government intervention and NO to government spying on citizens without a warrant and NO to national ID cards.
Support the Boston Tea Party for Ron Paul on December 16:
TeaParty07.com
Thank goodness for the "Power of the Internet"
"Paul''s supporters are unusually passionate"
Unusually? Please no disrespect but, this a bit "out of touch".
We are just an "Ordinary average Citizens" who%u2019s passionate about Freedom, Prosperity and Peace%u2026
Thank goodness for the "Power of the Internet"
"Paul''s supporters are unusually passionate"
Unusually? Please no disrespect but, this a bit "out of touch".
We are just an "Ordinary average Citizens" who%u2019s passionate about Freedom, Prosperity and Peace%u2026
Ron Paul''s name on them. If Huckabee''s web site says Paul has 11% in Florida, then he must have far more than 4% nationally. Also, over the last two weeks, Huckabee is getting constant front page exposure on the Washington Post and the Washington Times.
Paul gets nothing. Who knows how he would poll if the mainstream would quit stonewalling him?
Over the years, the Preamble of the Constitution has decayed to this:
"We the Politicians of the United States, in order to form a more perfect advantage, handicap justice, insure domestic futility, provide for the common pretense, promote the general incumbent, and secure the blessings of power to ourselves and our posterity, do disdain and therefore revise this Constitution for the United States of America whenever we feel like it."
WHOA, I SAY WHOA NOW, WHATCHYALL THINK YOU''RE DOING!!!!
(I''m typing at the top of my voice here.)
Time to hire Dr. NO to put a stop to this arrogance and restore it to "WE THE PEOPLE..." You all know how the original goes.....otherwise get yourself a copy of the Constitution to find out.
Ron Paul 2008
Honest Abe won in 1860,
Honest Ron wins in 2008
One question: Why does CBS News refuse to include Ron Paul in it''s Candidates'' series on the ''Evening News''? The justification about polling numbers is disingenuous, as they DID include candidates polling lower or even with Ron Paul! Perhaps the owners of CBS, NBC, ABC and other news outlets see in Dr. Paul a threat to the profitability of their weapons and defense-related division if ROn Paul is elected...
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So, I''ll be sending my money in on Sunday for the simple reason Ron Paul is an honest man among charlatans and power seekers. And he gives me hope when it is in short supply.
It is also fun to think of what a Paul administration would do if the establishment allowed him to get that far.
Hope, truth and justice are in short supply in what is now the United States. When they are offered, they should be grabbed and protected like the rare treasures they have become. Ron Paul offers those things.
Certainly it is another David and Goliath struggle, and the Davids have rarely won since the original face-off. But, that is why we have hope.
My understanding is you cannot get within a certain distance from a polling precinct with campaign materials for a candiate, it is against some voting law, make sure you check up on that, so you don''t lose your opportunity to vote, they may not let you in to vote. Will someone please confirm that for me, I read it somewhere.
Ron Paul has my vote and support.
The blimp is awesome, and the attention it is getting is worth the donations for sure.
http://RonPaul2008.com
Donate this Sunday 12/16 to Ron Paul 2008 online, which is the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party and expected to break all records for one day fundraising.
I am not a Democrat, and I support Ron Paul. There are many real republicans who are fed up with the Republican Party''s never-ending supply of RINO candidates that consider Ron Paul the best candidate to come along in years. I am one of them.
Ron Paul has more honor and integrity than all the other candidates and all of the Congress and Senate combined.
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Individual freedom and restoring the founding ideals of this country is something that brings people together. The only ones who have anything to fear from Paul are the status quo in Washington.
At least RP represents a start point.
Americans are getting a primer on what needs to happen to correct imbalances that has plagued the U.S. for decades.
The artistic voice has made a prediction, hauntingly accurate so far, about this election.
Consider the film Napoleon Dynamite. It tells the story of an election won by candidate who had the best campaign gimmick. Air filled objects, a football and a tether ball, appear repeatedly in the film. I leave it to readers to identify the real life candidate who has a gas filled object as a campaign gimmick. I suggest the film predicts he wins!
For an imaginative analysis of this election based on historical precedent go to http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=2&subcatid=30&threadid=227812
Read all the comments on the blog thread and you may just conclude that Napoleon Dynamite has a very good chance of coming true.
Albert Einstein said his ability to fantasize was more important to his success than his ability to absorb practical knowledge.
A little exercise of our fantasy skills may help our country flourish in peace and prosperity with the rest of the world.
To paraphrase Fox news, We the People fantasize, and We the People will decide.
To the artists who created Napolean Dynamite, you deserve an Oscar for best picture of all time if it foreshadows a Ron Paul victory!
With this understanding, I suggest to my readers to rent and enjoy the following DVDs and enjoy them beside your chestnuts roasting on an open fire this holiday season:
School of Rock (about a leader with followers much younger than he is)
Seabiscuit (about the power of love defeating the love of power)
Charlotte''s Web (an allegory about the impact of the big web that communicates the truth as the Internet now does with its statistics of public interest)
Ten Canoes (aborigine''s primitive tale about the importance of adhering to the Law of the Land)
Whale Ryder (about a new leader initially shunned by the establishment, and the transformation the new leader brings to rebirth the leader''s community to its ancestral beliefs)
and the clincher, Napolean Dynamite (story of an election won by the candidate with the best gimmick).
I''ll leave it to you to decide who the artists think will win next year.
The artists'' endorsement in these works will carry more weight than any by men of experience and common sense.
I wonder how often he visited the Gettysburg Battlefield, contemplated Lincoln''s Gettysburg Address, and asked himself if he could be as heroic as the soldiers who died there to save a great experiment in government by, of, and for We the People.
The historical similarity between Paul''s and Lincoln''s statemanship can not be denied.
"that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion %u2014 that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain %u2014 that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom %u2014 and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." - A.Lincoln
Like Aragon in the Lord of the Rings, Paul may have beckoned forth the ghosts of Gettysburg to aid his campaign. Chills down my spine!
I urge you to share the message of freedom that is the Ron Paul Campaign.
It is very obvious to me that Ron Paul has earned that trust by being very forthright and honest in every aspect of his life.If the American public does not rally around this man,we will regret it in the years to come!
RON PAUL FOR PRESIDENT 2008
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by gunownerdan
December 17, 2007 7:45 AM PST
- Dr. Ron Paul is truly the ONLY candidate who is pro-peace and pro-liberty.
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See all 47 CommentsHe also seems to be the only candidate who will obey the presidential oath of office to protect and defend the constitution.
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