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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. |
I've lost so much respect for him in the past 6 months (Andrew, not Ron). More because of his blind worship of Obama than anything else. |
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blaseblasphemener
Joined: 01 Jun 2006 Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject: |
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December 17, 2007 (email to supporters)
What a day! I am humbled and inspired, grateful and thrilled for this vast outpouring of support.
On just one day, in honor of the 234th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, the new American revolutionaries brought in $6.04 million, another one-day record. The average donation was $102; we had 58,407 individual contributors, of whom an astounding 24,915 were first-time donors. And it was an entirely voluntary, self-organized, decentralized, independent effort on the internet. Must be the "spammers" I keep hearing about!
The establishment is baffled and worried, and well they should be. They keep asking me who runs our internet fundraising and controls our volunteers. To these top-down central planners, a spontaneous order like our movement is science-fiction. But you and I know it's real: as real as the American people's yearning for freedom, peace, and prosperity, as real as all the men and women who have sacrificed for our ideals, in the past and today.
And how neat to see celebrations all across the world, with Tea Parties from France to New Zealand. This is how we can spread the ideals of our country, through voluntary emulation, not bombs and bribes. Of course, there were hundreds in America.
As I dropped in on a cheering, laughing crowd of about 600 near my home in Freeport, Texas, I noted that they call us "angry." Well, we are the happiest, most optimistic "angry" movement ever, and the most diverse. What unites us is a love of liberty, and a determination to fix what is wrong with our country, from the Fed to the IRS, from warfare to welfare. But otherwise we are a big tent.
Said the local newspaper (http://www.thefacts.com/story.lasso?ewcd=36475b4d132fc0a1): "The elderly sat with teens barely old enough to vote. The faces were black, Hispanic, Asian and white. There was no fear in their voices as they spoke boldly with each other about the way the country should be. Held close like a deeply held secret, Paul has brought them out of the disconnect they feel between what they know to be true and where the country has been led."
Thanks also to the 500 or so who braved the blizzard in Boston to go to Faneuil Hall. My son Rand told me what a great time he had with you.
A few mornings ago on LewRockwell.com, I saw a YouTube of a 14-year-old boy that summed up our whole movement for me. This well-spoken young man, who could have passed in knowledge for a college graduate, told how he heard our ideas being denounced. So he decided to Google. He read some of my speeches, and thought, these make sense. Then he studied US foreign policy of recent years, and came to the conclusion that we are right. So he persuaded his father to drop Rudy Giuliani and join our movement.
All over America, all over the world, we are inspiring real change. With the wars and the spying, the spending and the taxing, the inflation and the credit crisis, our ideas have never been more needed. Please help me spread them https://www.ronpaul2008.com/donate in all 50 states. Victory for liberty! That is our goal, and nothing less.
Sincerely,
Ron |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:22 pm Post subject: |
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| It would appear from some of the posts on the previous page that the persecution complex is alive and well. |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| thepeel wrote: |
| Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. |
I've lost so much respect for him in the past 6 months (Andrew, not Ron). More because of his blind worship of Obama than anything else. |
I'm opposite. I've gained so much respect for him. He has been very honest about his opinions and take very seriously the threat this government poses the international and national stability. Sure, he loves Obama. Obama is a good candidate. I would like Canada to have a candidate that represents the potential for deep, national change for the better as does Obama. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| thepeel wrote: |
| Andrew Sullivan has endorsed Ron Paul for the Republican nomination. |
I've lost so much respect for him in the past 6 months (Andrew, not Ron). More because of his blind worship of Obama than anything else. |
I'm opposite. I've gained so much respect for him. He has been very honest about his opinions and take very seriously the threat this government poses the international and national stability. Sure, he loves Obama. Obama is a good candidate. I would like Canada to have a candidate that represents the potential for deep, national change for the better as does Obama. |
Its also his open condescension for people who support Hillary. I find him to be naive and presumptious.
I think his naivete extends to his support for Ron Paul. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:15 pm Post subject: |
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| He doesn't think that Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton-Bush (Jeb?) is proper. Nor does he think Clinton will be as able to beat Rudy/Mitt as will Obama. And about Ron Paul, he makes a good case for it on his site. He is anti-war and therefore in picking his republican endorsement, he picked the most anti-war one (Paul). That is hardly naive. It is prioritizing issues. |
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Kuros
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: |
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| He doesn't think that Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton-Bush (Jeb?) is proper. Nor does he think Clinton will be as able to beat Rudy/Mitt as will Obama. And about Ron Paul, he makes a good case for it on his site. He is anti-war and therefore in picking his republican endorsement, he picked the most anti-war one (Paul). That is hardly naive. It is prioritizing issues. |
Right, well, there you go.
All I know was that I was a loyal reader until he claimed Bill Clinton was racist because Clinton did not think Obama had enough experience. |
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thepeel
Joined: 08 Aug 2004
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Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Well, that bumps him down a notch in my eyes. |
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bacasper

Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:29 am Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| It would appear from some of the posts on the previous page that the persecution complex is alive and well. |
Are you being vague for a reason? |
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ontheway
Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Location: Established in 1994
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you being vague for a reason? |
I wasn't aware I was being vague. |
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bacasper

Joined: 26 Mar 2007
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Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you being vague for a reason? |
I wasn't aware I was being vague. |
You didn't say exactly to which posts you were referring. |
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igotthisguitar

Joined: 08 Apr 2003 Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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