We’ve had a good run with them/him at IMAO anyway.

His basic message is that he wants the government to leave us alone.

Exactly. Well, that, and to stop killing us.

Lets see, Fort Sumter, Lincoln force the CSA hand and started a war.

Nonsense.

WWII, the US even admits that it provoked Japan into the Pearl Harbor attack.

What? Japan needed raw materials for it’s war machine and calculated it’s best opportunity to acquire them was to go to war with the US.

The Spanish-American war was the product of government and the newspapers.

Some validity here, perhaps, but the purpose of newspapers (and government in part) is to inform the public. You can blame people getting ’stirred up’ on the newspapers, but that is their job.

The world waits to see if the Only Man Who Can Save America will be able to pull together the support he needs to place second in this glorified fund-raiser. If a second-tier, conspiracy-lovin’ candidate like Ron Paul wins second……

Any criticism of Paul at all, boys? His haircut? Sense of fashion? Be as superficial as you want. I’m curious to see if we can wring even a shred of doubt from your creepy, messianic fascination with this turd.

Allahpundit on July 17, 2007 at 2:55 PM

I personally think he’s trying out for a third party run as Krazy Kucinich’s running mate. And I think he looks like a human Big Bird. That last bit was just for you AP. Hope you liked it.

As I write this, it is late afternoon, and I am sitting home reading this, and at the same time watching the absolutely stunning (pun intended) Michelle Yeoh rescue pandas from speeding trucks and generally kick-butt in Silverhawk, while you guys have your collective panties all twisted into knots over Ron Paul and his supporters.

While both are entertaining, I think I’m going to go back and chill with the Silverhawk and her motorcycle. She definitely has better legs,and a better set of wheels.

Ciao fellas.

At least Perot was entertaining. Paul and the Paulnuts just aren’t doing it for me so far.

Jim Treacher on July 17, 2007 at 6:04 PM

Now, see, that’s just sad.

Jones? Granted, Jones is both retarded and annoying, but he’s a media outlet and politicians rarely turn down an opportunity to get their message out. Pat Buchanan has been on Jones’s show; are conservatives ready to throw Buchanan–who, by the way, also happens to share Paul’s views in regard to the Gulf of Tonkin incident–under the bus, as well?
tad on July 17, 2007 at 2:51 PM

You may add Rosie to the list of peaople that lump Gulf of Tonkin and and the current administration together. Does it make it more believable ?

tad on July 17, 2007 at 6:18 PM

You also missed the class on HA etiquette, it is the idea that is important, not the grammar. Read all the blogs the last two or three weeks and you will find one statement regarding grammar…yours.

The other blogs diss people because they just don’t know any grammer or speling. We diss blogs on ideas…get it? Now that was two classes you failed.

This is why logic should be taught in school. You shouldn’t have skipped class tad.

Apparently, you missed grammar class. In the English language, names in the form of a direct address are set off by the use of a comma.

Can you either quantify or qualify how Paul’s pandering to the truther or pseudo-truther base is any worse/different than many Republican’s pandering to the evangelical “left behind”, last days on earth crowd?

tad on July 17, 2007 at 4:48 PM

This is why logic should be taught in school. You shouldn’t have skipped class tad.

Keli on July 17, 2007 at 5:26 PM

exactly

Now troofers do make me emotional. They piss me off. They highly piss me off. Everytime they open their mouth they insult and belittle the memories of the over 3000 who died and the pain of their families. So yeah, to me Ron Paul getting support from those foul disgusting degenerates is much much different to me then say, republicans getting support from evangelicals.

And the fact that Ron Paul refuses to denounce them makes him worthy of all ridicule and disgust, no matter what his stance on the ‘issues’.
k i’ll try to calm down now

If he doesn’t drive you crazy maybe you should go see a psychologist, cause you may already be there, which would explain why he doesn’t drive you crazy.

doriangrey on July 17, 2007 at 3:11 PM

No need. I’m a case hardened guy that has seen it all. It would take more than Ron Paul to drive me crazy. Maybe President Ron Paul would do it.

when you look at donations were they did not indicate employer Paul recieved $100. So many of his supporters are marking of ‘military’, i think we need some investigative journalism here. I want a list of the ‘military’ names giving money to ron paul.

absolute moral authority

Cartoons are replete with such instances.

tad on July 17, 2007 at 4:48 PM

Let’s see. One is a religious group who believes in the Bible, as well over a billion people do. The other believes the US Government was responsible for bringing down the World Trade Center and killing about 3,000 people.

I presume that most Hot Air commenters (and readers, for that matter) support the troops. Interesting, the troops seem to support, at least in terms of donations, Ron Paul’s presidential candidacy.
tad on July 17, 2007 at 4:39 PM

1. I support the troops, but that doesn’t mean I have to support their political decisions. If they decided to vote for Hillary, I wouldn’t join Team Hillary.

2. I can put down “Nuclear Scientist” on the donation form, as my occupation. That doesn’t mean I am one. The candidate doesn’t check up. We all know how much Paul supporters can be trusted to tell the truth 100% of the time. I mean, they vote in polls so honestly.

Given the behavior of his supporters, it more likely it shows that Troofer Paul’s supporters are falsely putting down “military” as their occupation to create the impression that he has military support.

Hollowpoint on July 17, 2007 at 4:45 PM

I doubt hardly any portion of the Federal Govt. is going to support someone who talks about drastically cutting their funding and in many cases completely wiping them out of existence. This is why most people that work for the govt. are generally Dems, they promise them all sorts of stuff and provide protection.