Jul 23
I’ve started to develop a crush on this man. There. I’ve said it. I got a crush on Ron Paul.
It started with the first time I saw him in the Republican presidential debate. There was something endearing about that funny looking man from Texas (although originally from Pennsylvania). His positions are all over the map. He’s always been an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. He’s the true maverick of the Republican party.
But it was the pro-Paul homemade signs randomly posted on telephone poles around Austin, seemingly created on a child’s leftover construction paper with unsharpened crayons, that sealed the deal for me. (Two words: sandwich board.) Who is this ex-Libertarian, I thought to myself, writing furiously in my Election 2008 personal journal and ordering another drink (Barkeep!).
The NYT Sunday magazine profiled Dr. Paul and all his eccentricities:
He communicates with his constituents through birthday cards, August barbecues and the cookbooks his wife puts together every election season, which mix photos of grandchildren, Gospel passages and neighbors’ recipes for Velveeta cheese fudge and Cherry Coke salad. He is listed in the phone book, and his constituents call him at home.
This reminds me of the communications I enjoy with all of you.
Concerning Iraq, Paul said, “I was annoyed by the evangelicals’ being so supportive of pre-emptive war, which seems to contradict everything that I was taught as a Christian. The religion is based on somebody who’s referred to as the Prince of Peace.”
Now, obviously, I would never vote for Paul for president because, aside from ending the war, I don’t agree with any of his politics. And sure, he doesn’t stand a chance of winning the nomination. But it’s refreshing to hear someone speak their mind, consequences be damned.
Many of Paul’s supporters, however, are crazy conspiracy theorists. One of Paul’s rally attendees thinks that the Federal Reserve, oil companies and others are part of the Bilderbergers and perform mock human sacrifices to an owl-god named Moloch. Impossible. Or is it? Or. is. it.
The trackback URL is here.
Finally, a candidate who appeals to absolutely no one.
His positions aren’t really “all over the map.” He’s actually very principled since he consistently votes to follow the Constitution.
OK, where’s the ITPT cookbook? And the birthday card to me must have been lost in the mail.
Re: 2. Don’
was me.
Nevermind.
http://www.showlushabstaining.blogspot.com
Re: 4. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
Put down the Jack, Woman. It’s Monday.
I can see it now–PL shaking her booty (and her skinny knees) as the Ron Paul video hoochie. Watch out Obama girl and Giuliani girl–PL won’t be swinging a pillow, but a bottle of Merlot (or maybe some of that delicious Velveeta Cheese Fudge?)
Re: 5. lush
Unfortunately, I don’t have that as an excuse. I’m not even hungover.
/Blogging Etiquette Rule 1: Never post while talking on your cellphone.
I think the Ron Paul/ Alex Jones ticket will be unstoppable.
Re: 8. Don’t Mess w/ Pink
“/Blogging Etiquette Rule 1: Never post while talking on your cellphone. ”
- especially if you’re using micro-browser on said phone to read the blog in question.
rEVOLution
Re: 10. Qwerty
Best. Campaign Posters. Ever.
You know, if the guy weren’t so damn Libertarian. Or should that be da*mn?
The Ron Paul song!
http://www.root1.net/MainFrame/RPwmp/Ron_Paul_Is_Here.mp3
He wants to abolish the DEA. I could learn to like the guy. Those voters in Victoria must have needed some excitement…or entertainment.
“But it’s refreshing to hear someone speak their mind, consequences be damned.”
Now that Kinky is off the map you like honesty?
Re: 13. treehugger
Yeah, but he also wants to get rid of the FAA. Not so much.
But I, too, love the posters.
He’s amusing. What is this constitution thing everyone always talks about. Is it that thing we used to have during the last millennium?
Once, in a fit of despair about political honesty, I actually voted for Ron Paul for President. He’s honestly anti-war. Anti-war on drugs. Anti-war in Iraq.
/Anti-war on poverty
Re: 15. Lil’ D Kinkatron
I think it’s time we got rid of the FFA….with those freaky corduroy jackets.
Re: 18. Fled The Asylum
I’ll take on Harriet Miers, the Republicans, and the military-industrial complex. But not the FFA boys. They scare me.
Re: 19. The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton
My boss wears an FFA jacket. He’s from upstate NY, found it here in a thrift store, and thinks it’s funny. He has no idea.
Is it just me, or were the FFA boys either super skinny (with mullets and rings of tobacco faded into their Wranglers), or huge blocks of beef-fed brute? It’s like they could be a Fat Albert kind of a gang, but with Slim Earl as the central figure. And they’d have girlfriends with permed hair and upside-down-heart-shaped behinds. And they’d spit their tobacco juice into the girls’ Diet Coke cans. ‘Cause that’s always hysterical.
Re: 20. Wallflower Jr.
Dude, that’s just you.
Re: 9. Fled The Asylum
I’d vote for that.
Re: 16. The Other Guy
It is NOT what W takes every morning, though that’s what he thinks, and uses for TP.