What Will All The Crazy People Do Now?
RON PAUL ENDS HIS CAMPAIGN FOR THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION
FITSNews – June 13, 2008 – As much as we readily associate ourselves with the libertarianism espoused by soon-to-be-former GOP presidential candidate Ron Paul, we couldn’t get past the fact that his supporters (well, with a few exceptions) drove us absolutely crazy.
Seriously, it’s unhealthy to get that interested in politics, people. And while we know most of them were just high as kites and didn’t know any better, it was still a little creepy. Anyway, the question now is what are all these potheads going to do now that Paul is officially out of the race:
Paul’s announcement came on the first day of the (Texas) Republican convention, a time to unify and invigorate grassroots supporters.
“With the primary season now over, the presidential campaign is at an end,” Paul wrote in a letter posted on the Internet. “But the larger campaign for freedom is just getting started.”
We continue to believe that Paul will ultimately endorse Libertarian Party nominee Bob Barr, but it remains to be seen whether the “Ralph Nader of the Republican Party” will have an adverse impact on GOP nominee John McCain’s chances come November. It also remains to be seen whether those baked beans Sic Willie is currently shoveling down his throat (for breakfast, no less) will have an adverse impact on our office air quality come fifteen minutes from now.
Comments
By ObamaMcCain for more of the same on June 13th, 2008 at 10:47 am
Ron Paul had over a million votes in the Republican primaries. It is hard to see how someone like Paul could be successful in today’s political climate. Balancing the budget, pointing out how unnecessary the war in Iraq is, shutting down useless federal agencies like the Dept. of Education, and strictly following the Constitution are not the sort of platform that proves popular.
Far better to analyze and pontificate on McCain and Obama’s preachers for 30 second sound bites on cable news.
By India on June 13th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
Ok, Will, that was a little harsh on us Ron Paul supporters! I have never been as excited to vote as the day I pushed the button for him. It was almost like being back in ‘64 and what it would’ve been like voting for my all time politcal hero Goldwater. I do not often put yard signs out, and despite my husband’s embarrasment and passive aggressive game of moving it out of it’s place of prominence in the yard and to the dumpster, only to be pulled back out and placed again in the yard, I was proud. I know he had a few ideas that were less than a mainstream, but from a limited government perspective…he was the candidate. The momentum of that campaign among disenchanted younger voters is encouraging for my generation, who tends to be socially moderate and limited government/ fiscal conservative proponents. REVOLUTION!
By Toyota Kawesaki on June 13th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Where will the blimp be flying now?
By Reader on June 14th, 2008 at 3:15 am
And where will all that money go?
By Robert Price on June 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
FYI, I am an Ivy-League MBA and CFO of a company with over $100 million in sales. And I am an avid Ron Paul supporter. Why? Not because I smoke dope, sir. It’s because I have the long-term vision to see that all the policies being advanced against both economic and social freedom only serve to do one thing: bring down the very thing that makes us all prosperous and deliver it to the very few. The political and financial elite can push the middle class just so far until their collective backs break. And when that happens, there will be no one to purchase my goods and services.
Sir, you need to do a little more homework and get the fog out of your brain!
By Dan Hansen on June 14th, 2008 at 12:06 pm
Potheads, eh? Crazy People. Well, that’s par for the course. The level of anti-Paul invective throughout the campaign surprised me – I had never realized how crazy so many of my fellow Americans considered a limited government, pro-liberty position to be, particularly since those are the official positions of the Republican party.
R. Paul created a whole new group of small-government Republican activists this go-round. So you go ahead and laugh, monkey-boy. That guy in a suit that you strike up a conversation with – that well-heeled professional that you meet at your next county/district/state convention may very well have been motivated to join by Paul’s call-to-arms. But I suppose you’ll be too busy worrying about the pot-heads to notice him.
By McCain = McSubversion on June 14th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
I like his policies myself. And his SPUNK!
His isolationist foreign policy kept me from voting for him in the primaries; but in retrospect — it may not be such a bad stance.
We need to get back to our roots of what made us great in the first place. Fire in the hole in Alaska!!!!!!!! TAP THE FREAKIN’ OIL.
Tote the polar bears and platypuses to Russia!
By Ron Paul (the SC version) on June 16th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
What will all the crazy people do now?…. to answer your question: vote for Flat Top Bob.