W. Gardner Selby reports that Ron Paul’s activists had a bit of success during the Republican district conventions this past Saturday.
As Democrats tussled over their presidential candidates at recent regional conventions, Paul backers unexpectedly took control of a GOP convention in Austin and the Victoria County convention.
And the old guard Republicans didn’t like it at all.
Gail Suttle, active in GOP circles since the 1980s, watched the takeover in horror. Suttle e-mailed Republicans afterward: “This group is NOT Republican and they will not work together — remember this when you do have to be in contact with them.”
At the confab at a local middle school, she’d likened the Paulies to Hitler youth, saying they were to the right of Attila the Hun.
Hmm. To the right of Attila the Hun, you say? Did Attila inhale?
Street by street, Paul supporters identified independent-minded voters willing to come to the precinct caucuses on primary night. McDonald said the canvassers looked for Paul yard signs and independent-oriented bumper stickers, even marijuana-leaf stickers—”anything indicating that person is a freedom-minded person.”
I can understand that strategy in Austin but Victoria? I didn’t realize that there were that many pot heads living out there. Maybe the lyrics should have been “Freedom’s just another word for….lightin’ up a blunt”.
In a move that just might be the irony of ironies, the Rombies approved a resolution that is quite interesting.
Delegates approved a resolution honoring Gov. Rick Perry.
Who’d a thunk it? These freedom loving dopers honor a guy that pushed a business tax on us, is trying to steal the land of farmers everywhere and desperately fought to inject little girls with an unproven vaccine. Truth is stranger than fiction.
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I kind of LIKE it! If they haven’t heard a wake-up call by now, we need to go ahead and bury them, they are quite evidently dead.
Are we sure the Paulettes were the ones who wanted Perry honored. That sounds like old school republican work to me. Perry would not have a chance getting a pat on the back from district 7. Even those on the stage made it clear they are unhappy with him.
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To the right of Attila the Hun???
Most normal folks are to the right of Attila.
His primary “governing” position was “everything you thought you owned, he considered it his, and if you didn’t like that fact, he took your property from you by force”.
That’s liberalism’s primary mandate.
Yes, all Ron Paul supporters are pot heads.
It’s like, a requirement, dude..
Well, normally I’d point out that the vast majority of Paul supporters don’t smoke pot, but also don’t think the government should be destroying freedoms and property in an absurd and expensive effort to stop others from smoking it.
But I can’t make an argument against this:
Dude, they must have been smokin some really good stuff!
Dude knows where the good stuff is?
For the record…
I haven’t messed with that stuff in many years. But Bob42 took the words right outta my mouth:
I know that’s right.
You know, most of the Paul supporters I know are mature, educated and fairly successful in their chosen fields and I’ve never been offered a doob by any of them.
Maybe I’m just hanging with the wrong characters…
Bogarts too? mmmm, mmmm, mmm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5xl9EiGMwE
LOL thanks Shannon, I was hoping that was the right word. Been a while and many…
I’ve got the munchies. JK!
Really sad that this group of losers, who probably have no idea what to do, are gonna hijack a convention just because their leader is a sore loser.
To All:
I am not so sure that the Paulites are not on to something. Most of the twits (R & D) that parade before the electorate are more acceptable after the consumption of a good doobie.
What is it about that SW corridor that turns Republicans into loons?
Simple
There seems to be a disconnect between Dr. Pauls website and this alleged behavior. They say that politics makes strange bedfellows. I suppose a case can be made for legalized drugs especially since the tidal wave of street stuff seems impossible to stop. I have to wonder after this years election, if someone else, with the same libertarian views would have been ‘dissed’ so completely. Surely, not all of Paul’s positions are foreign to Conservatives!?
pimlico, most people here have stated that they agree with Dr. Paul on many issues. However, he has some very real problems on some key issues, foreign aid, military deployments, etc.
Duhmoose. In light of the National Debt etc., the Social Security ‘Fund’ Ha Ha.; why is it that no one can go through the spending and say, of any appropriation, that it needs to be cut. Why can’t we get our allies to take their turn in the troops for peace barrel; especially on the smaller stuff? Why is it that the US is the Military for the UN? Sure we have to defend ourselves and do things in our best interest, but at SOME point, you have to regroup and resupply. ( that means Resupply Money too.) The Federal governments’ spending has all the elements of a manic ex-wife, charging up the old man’s credit cards. I realize that Ron Paul may be his own worst enemy, But all enterprises must be reviewed and re-evaluated on a regular basis. The government rarely re- evaluates spending, they automatically increase it……. One more point, I think we are, as Americans, drawn into being part of the group,ie Americans, when it is sometimes, maybe often that those in powe, who wield the power of the Country, in the name of the Country, for the good of some group or other. I think we often, blindly follow the cause, and take offense for the criticism against the Country, when in reality, the criticism is aimed at the policy which may not be the peoples policy at all but the policy of the policy makers and their lobbies.
pimlico, I definitely agree that we need someone to actually work towards a balanced budget, lower spending (or at least control it), etc. That’s one of the reasons I couldn’t vote for Ron Paul, he has been gaming the budgeting system for years. As for the troops, wasn’t it like 70 countries contributing military assets and funds to the war in Iraq when we went in initially? I keep hearing about British troop movements and Australian support, so I know at least some of our allies are actually working with us.
#15 pimlico, I don’t think any quality or quantity of drugs could make the typical D or R candidate look acceptable.
The message, rather than the man was the reason the Ron Paul Revolution got the traction that it did. It tapped into a supply of latent dissatisfaction with the two party duopoly and the quality of candidates that it produces, and motivated many people to participate in the primary process who had not done so before.
There was no convention hijacking in Austin or Victoria. There were motivated citizens speaking out and participating in a movement to improve the quality of political representation.
Whether this participation extends beyond this election cycle is anyone’s guess, but I’m guessing we haven’t heard the last from the revolution.
By what definition was Attila “on the right”? Given that the politics of then is totally unrelated to the politics of now, how can anyone even know what that means?
History has left precious little information about where the Huns came from originally, but by all accounts Attila, like Genghis Khan, was an enlightened ruler by the (admittedly low) standards of the day.
Please do not insult him by comparing him to modern day politicians.
Oh, what sad times are these when a Luap Nor post can only muster 20 comments. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Duhmoose, I’m sure there were and are other Nations in the mix for both Afgan and Iraqi duty. I’m also thinking of the ‘Meals on Wheels’/type situations that come up often ( probably much more with the Clintons). Also the Euros should and should helped more in the Balkans. Why we insist on Competeing with other Countries commercially whilst still covering their defense needs is Dumb and Suicidal. Let them spend the money. WE could allow our Military to be available for back-up border duty…………… Paul shot himself in the foot with the “our fault” mentality. However, some of what happened ‘could’ have been planned or at least been taken advantage of. For instance the Patriot Act has portions that are extra constituitnal even with regard to terrorism…. Just like the bank giveaway to the Fed this week. Just because we don’t want to believe that level of Treachery, doen’t mean it might be possible. We have to, at least, allow for the possibility.
19 Bob42, Great points. I’d like to refer anyone interested about the two party duopoly, to Peter Hitchens in the Mail On Sunday.( Christopher’s more Conserevative and Traditionalist Brother) He points out in last weeks post, that the British Parliamentry System has degraded to the point that very few Members of Parliament are ‘allowed by the Goverment in power, to have ‘free votes’….. So the Republicans must be Largely, ‘Traditional Republicans’ who didn’t like the more freedom loving folks to have their’wicked’ way with the local Conventions.
The Founding Fathers (Rombies are fond of telling us what they wanted) were probably opposed to political parties all together but Jefferson quickly learned that he had to form an opposition party to counter the ruling party’s policies, thus the two-party duopoly was born. That means the Founding Fathers invented the two party duopoly and RP wants to do away with what the Founding Fathers envisioned. There were models of parliamentary governments in that era and the Founding Fathers specifically did not choose that chaotic form of governance. Wise men, I’d say.