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rEVOLution to end formally tonight; Update: Video added

posted at 10:05 pm on March 6, 2008 by Allahpundit
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I waited 45 minutes for Paul HQ to fix the video of his farewell message that’s supposed to be here but it still won’t play as of this writing. Take ABC’s word for it, though: It’ll be there soon, and amid seven plus minutes on liberty, the gold standard, and the Gulf of Tonkin there’ll be some sort of formal concession of a race he never had the remotest chance of winning, no matter how many terrorist-themed “moneybombs” the Paulnuts managed to put together. He had his own cult before Obama did; he’s still the only candidate with his own blimp (and his own racialist newsletter, his own Nazi donor base, etc etc). I’ll miss the easy content but take heart in the fact that he’s on his way back to the House for another term, where he’ll charm us with another two years of floor speeches espousing an absolute moral equivalence between Israel and Hamas. Maybe someday he’ll get around to explaining why someone who voted to invade Afghanistan thinks he’s qualified to lecture others on noninterventionism. Good riddance.

Update: Finally, here’s the clip. “I don’t mind playing a key role in the revolution, but it has to be more than a Ron Paul revolution.”

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I am not a Paul supporter you twit. I actually gave money to Thompson, but people have attacked Paul for his stance on the war in Iraq, and that I can’t understand.

Lets see, you supported Thompson who supports the war in Iraq. Thompson does not believe as Paul does, yet, you supported him.

So, seeing Thompson supports the war in Iraq, and also a war with Iran if need be (Which BTW Paul says America is trying to force a war with Iran, create another gulf of Tonkin) how could you ever vote for Thompson seeing he is a neo-con imperialist by Ron Paul standards which you seem adore?

Again, if you do not know why we support the war in Iraq, then there is only one place a person can put there head where it is that dark.

Ask yourself this, who stands to win if we lose?

RobertInAustin on March 7, 2008 at 7:56 PM

I laughed out loud when I saw that DFCtomm “supported” Thompson.

In my best James Cagney impersonation: “You, sir, are a dirty rotten LIAR!”

Thompson and Herr Doktor are polar opposites.

That’s the thing with the Paulbots: they live in complete denial. For them, lying is as natural as breathing.

Et tu Brute on March 7, 2008 at 8:05 PM

I laughed out loud when I saw that DFCtomm “supported” Thompson.

I was a Libertarian for several years due to the fact that I believed that the Republican party didn’t act conservative any longer. But I found that life in the LP party was just to surreal.

There are many things I do agree with Paul on, but there is way to much that I disagree. For example…

We favor the abolition of the Federal Communications Commission as we would provide for free market ownership of airwave frequencies, deserving of full First Amendment protection.

Okay, now how are we going to keep track of who owns what frequency? Especially since radio waves reach across state lines? Suppose a large broadcaster simply starts blasting a smaller one off the air? And suppose the big guy has much greater resources for fighting a court battle than the little guy? Or is this maybe what libertarians want? Don’t think for a minute that George Soros wouldn’t take over the air waves.

But Paul supporters who believe that life will only get better if they get into power somehow think that everything will just work itself out. Well, maybe in Narnia or Middle Earth, but not in the real world.

This is actually very reminiscent of the mind-set of radicals in the Sixties: let’s totally break up the existing system, then worry about the details later. You’ll love it. Trust us.