Hee Hee.. The Ron Paul Factor

[LuckyTheDog]

Rep. Ron Paul is still in the GOP race and even drew 16% of the vote in the recent Pennsylvania Republican primary. Now his supporters are planning to stage a "revolt" at the Republican National Convention in September, possibly with the aim of securing Paul a prime time speaking slot.

Conservative radio talk show host Mike Gallagher told the hosts of Fox and Friends on Tuesday, "There is no question that this could be a major headache for John McCain."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fox_Ron_Paul_supporters_planning_revolt_0513.html

[muntrv]

1. Now this is an operation chaos!

:evilgrin: :popcorn:

[rurallib]

3. Maybe a riot in (where the hell are thay meeting anyway?)

Do RepubliKlans riot? Do they need some one to choreograph it?

[ColbertWatcher]

4. The GOP outsources rioting. n/t

[muntrv]

5. Their convention is in Minneapolis. As in where Larry Craig went cruisin'

for dudes in the airport mens room.

[rurallib]

9. Good lord it's only 300 miles from here

Have they got that bridge fixed yet? It will make a nice cut-away shot during the McCain coronation. Maybe the Paulies could stage their coup in front of the bridge to demonstrate neo-con incompetence?

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

21. Not yet, but they're rushing the job to try to get it done before the convention

They'll deny it, of course, but that's exactly what Pawlenty is doing.
What's even more depressing about it all is that the actual convention is in St. Paul.
About 3 miles from my apartment.
The neighborhood I live in is very blue.

[Initech]

6. They definitely need a coreographer to stage a riot.

They cant play guitar:



They cant dance:



They cant even ride Segways:

[Kixel]

20. St. Paul

We Minnesotans normally don't know how to riot very well, either. It'll be hard to spice up!

[Happyhippychick]

2. This reminds me of the 10th plague - whatever the Pharoah would proclaim

would happen to his own people.

Gee Rush, Operation Chaos sure isn't working the way you had hoped, is it?

[Ilsa]

8. Rush doesn't get "kharma," even after his drug addiction. nt

[parasim]

7. There ya go.

This is gonna be one interesting election season.

[malaise]

10. We shoudl thank Rush for giving them the

idea. Did someone say boomerang??? :rofl:

[LuckyTheDog]

11. Blowback, baby!

:toast:

[IndependentDem]

12. Ron Paul is my homeboy!

:sarcasm:

But i definitely appreciate his help... If you haven't seen it before, check out what went down at the convention in Reno.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=385&topic_id=124754

[tom_paine]

13. Barr/Paul '08!

Made you look! No, I don't want them to WIN, I want them to RUN.

[LuckyTheDog]

14. Yep (nt)

[Norrin Radd]

15. I'd reverse that. Would suck away votes from McCain with greater force.

[Perry Logan]

16. At last--a use for libertarians!

[comtec]

17. You mean aside from ingredients for Soilent Green?

Im a little disturbed by the support libbys get from the middle.
They are like a Big Mac, looks good, tastes good, but that shit'll KILL YOU DEAD after a time of eating it!
libbys have Z E R O understanding of how reality works.
Which is sad, because on the surface it's not a bad idea
Sadly not enough people go past the candy coating so see the maggot infested shit burger in the middle.

[Perry Logan]

18. Ick!

The libertarians have been around for decades. You'd think they'd notice it's not catching on.

[KharmaTrain]

19. The Paulbots Want A Prime Time Speaking Slot

Think how delicious that would be...the entire booosh agenda shot down right on prime time or else!!!

Anyone else remember when Paul was excluded from...this may refresh your memory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vvEeuvOzvM

The fun was seeing them chase Hannity around. :rofl:

I will now blow my own horn and say I predicted a third party candidate would jump in around now...my bets were on Paul bolting, but him staying and making mayhem at their convention is fine with me. Bob Barr could be a big problem for Huggy Bear...even with his nomination, he still is losing 25% or more of the vote in some very key swing states. And is the corporate media paying attention? Hell no...they're too busy obsessing on Hillary.

[superkia]

22. Their crazy if they think of any kind of organized protest, they will...

be labeled terra suspects and locked up. They Haven't realized that this is Amerika and the definition of freedom isn't what we read in the dictionary. Look at all of the freedom and democracy we have spread all around the world, all of the puppets that we have put in place, I think the gangerments definition for freedom is something that describes something for them not us. I don't think I will be taking part in anymore large marches or protests unless we can at least get 1% of the population to care enough to put up the effort and attend. Otherwise, it ends up like last September and the media is able to just ignore us, hopefully one day there will be enough people that will be able to make personal sacrifice for the good of all 300+ million people enjoying what we do have here.

[tom_paine]

23. It is interesting to see what will happen to them. Don't be surprised if they are treated like

Bushies.

Why? You ask. Because, my observation has been this: Amerika has not been a free nation for at least seven years, maybe longer. However, the Bushies must at all costs keep the programming and delusions they have so successfully fostered through 30 years of Bushiganda.

I have noticed that there is only one group in Bush-occupied Imperial Amerika that, even for a moment, gets to pretend they are free. And that is the 30-40% of the populace who are White Male Bushies and assorted gullible fools who would NEVER be Bushies, if only they could get their heads out of Cable TV's ass long enough to uncloud their vision and wake up from the spell. If any or all of this "last group of even slightly free Amerikans" (only free because the Bushies ave to keep fooling them for awhile longer or literally NO ONE will support them, and while the Bushies can survive with 20-30% support, 0% support is too much for even the most successful salespeople of totalitarianism in American History to move forward with) suddenly woke up from their propaganda induced daze, it would be disaster.

One can actually find a few examples where the Bushies knuckled under to the "protests of their base", because of this, thus giving them the tiniest boost to the illusion that any of us are still actually free. To people wholly captivated by Bushiganda, that is all that is required.

Example: The Dubai Ports thing. Such an outcry from that group, the ONLY group left in Amerika who even have the remotest chance of "being listened to" by our Rulers, actually DID stop the Dubai Ports sale. Even though we all know that, if an investigation as performed, we would all find out that either Dubai Ports owns our port apparatus through some transparent Bushie financial trick, or they received massive compensation in US Treasury loot "for going along". Not that the Bushies need have any fear from the Toady Media, who don't even know how to investigate anymore, with some very minor exceptions.

Example: Bushie Plans for cheap-labor Mexicans to get "visitor passes". Same Thing. The Bushies HAD to yield because if they didn't, the only people who still believed they are free would start to doubt that because they would taste what the rest of Amerika has tasted for a decade now at least, that no number of us complaining, protesting, writing letters, making calls, etc. matters one whit or a damn to our Rulers, nor can they be moved by the pleas of the serfdom.

Oh, eventually the 30-40% White Male Bushies (and a few female Ann Coulter types too) will find out that they are basically in the same boat as us. But you know as well as I do that the Bushies have a plan for that, too. Just like Hitler, their anger at this realization will be redirected at the scapegoats, and the White Bushie Males will be given diversions such as joining Right-Wing Death Squads or whatever the final shape of Bushevism will give them (it is impossible to predict details).

So, having said all that, it is interesting to see if it is worth it to the Bushies to treat the Paulites like Bushies, which is to say to pretend to them that they are still free by NOT having the Bushie Police rubber bullet them, preemptively arrest them, tear gas them, and cage them in a "Free Speech Zone", among other things.

My guess is that they will be treated like Bushies, not like Amerikan Subjects, because the Paulites are still in that key demographic, and to treat them like the rest of the Amerikan Serfdom might STILL wake up some watching White Male Bushies (and so many of them WILL be watching) because the Paulites COULD BE THEM.

Since the Bushies still dare not alienate the Brownshirts who support them, for a little while longer anyway, maybe as much as 20 years more, I suspect the Paulites will be treated like Bushies.

But it will be interesting to watch. Totalitarians like Bushies and Nazis absolutely LOATHE expressions of freedom and their first instinct will be to strike back and strike back HARD, like they do when any Amerikans try to behave like free people.

Stay tuned. It should be interesting.