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John McCain Mocks Ron Paul Supporters
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Read what John McCain said about Ron Paul supporters. Also included in this article are some of my personal experiences working against John McCain's decade long quest for unlimited power.
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by Jake Morphonios
(Libertarian)
I met John McCain back in the 2000 Presidential campaign cycle. I was working for Steve Forbes at the time as a regional campaign manager in North Carolina. As part of my duties during the Republican Presidential Debate down in South Carolina I served as Mr. Forbes' driver and escort. It was great to be a part of the behind-the-scenes action, starting with Mr. Forbes getting his stage make-up put on for the debate, to driving our van at break-neck speed to get to the debate on time with Mr. Forbes and a handful of reporters shouting directions from the back seat, to our surprise post-debate visit to an international AMWAY sales convention. But one moment left an indelible impression on my mind; it was when I met John McCain.
After seeing Mr. Forbes into the VIP section to prepare for the debate, I returned to the secure area behind the center where I had parked. I met Senator Strom Thurmond coming out from the Republican Banquet at which he had just been honored. Two men guided him by either arm. I spoke briefly to him and he smiled and drooled in response. As I turned around I noticed that McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus had pulled in. McCain was sitting with a reporter on the bus conducting an interview. I could see him mouthing his signature phrase, "my friends", over and over again. I had met all the other candidates already, save George W. Bush - whose hand I had refused to shake, his likely seizure of the Republican nomination was the reason I was supporting Steve Forbes, after all - so I waited outside the bus to meet McCain as he exited the bus.
The man is short, maybe 5'7". His arms aren't normal length, due to his torture in Vietnam, so I've been told. He has virtually no upper lip. And, of course, the guy oozes cockiness. He was congenial enough, I suppose, but I could tell he was the consummate politician. McCain was, and is, willing to say anything to grab power. To one crowd he champions himself as a progressive maverick willing to stand against the right-wing of the party, but at other times claims that he is the incarnation of Barry Goldwater and the true heir to the Reagan legacy. I didn't pretend that I was pleased to meet him and he didn't pretend to want to please me. I think it was my fluorescent orange FORBES FOR PRESIDENT campaign shirt that gave me away. As he walked on in to the convention center I had a distinct, gut feeling about John McCain. This guy was crooked.
After Steve Forbes dropped out of the race in 2000, McCain continued his fight for the Presidency against Bush and the blubbering showboat, Alan Keyes. With the Presidential election all but sewn up for King George W, I took a job as campaign manager for NC Representative Bill Hiatt. I vowed to campaign against McCain should he ever run for President again. In 2004 I joined an effort to try to persuade Congressman Ron Paul to run for President once more, but he eventually declined. Instead, I helped out on the Badnarik (Libertarian Party) and Peroutka (Constitution Party) campaigns.
Imagine my dismay that eight years from my first encounter with McCain the Republican Party still hasn't learned its lesson. Bush Jr. was bad, but McCain is worse. This time, though, I am glad to not simply be protesting someone's candidacy but proudly supporting a candidate that I truly believe in.
It gives me great pleasure to know that I am part of a political movement that is bothersome to John McCain. In this week's issue of the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza reports an exchange that McCain had with reporters regarding Ron Paul and his supporters:
"We had a debate in Iowa. I mean, it was, like, last summer, one of the first debates we had. It was raining, and I'm standing there in the afternoon, it was a couple of hours before the debate, and I happen to look out the window. Here's a group of fifty people in the rain, shouting Ron Paul! Ron Paul!' " At this point McCain begins to pound his fists on the table and chant in mockery of the Ron Paul Revolutionaries outside.
"I thought, Holy s**t, what's going on here? I mean, go to one of these debates. Drive up. Whose signs do you see? I'm very grateful, they've been very polite. I recognize them and say thanks for being here. They haven't disrupted the events. But he has tapped a vein. And it's a combination of isolationism, the old part of our party, and the conspiracy. You know? We have made an important discovery: the headquarters for the organization that's going to merge three countries into one - Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. - is in Kansas City!' "
Such bodacious babble from McCain might irk some Paulites, but not me. We have gotten under his skin. He has been compelled to accept that a very vocal and angry segment of the nation is fed up with the government's usurpation of our constitutional rights. It reminds me of what Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Well, McCain is laughing now, but soon he will be fighting for precious delegates against us at the Republican National Convention. I hope to be there to see McCain sweat. Between now and then, I'm going to work to rally supporters and give our enemies hell.
John McCain Mocks Ron Paul Supporters
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Read what John McCain said about Ron Paul supporters. Also included in this article are some of my personal experiences working against John McCain's decade long quest for unlimited power.
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by Jake Morphonios
(Libertarian)
I met John McCain back in the 2000 Presidential campaign cycle. I was working for Steve Forbes at the time as a regional campaign manager in North Carolina. As part of my duties during the Republican Presidential Debate down in South Carolina I served as Mr. Forbes' driver and escort. It was great to be a part of the behind-the-scenes action, starting with Mr. Forbes getting his stage make-up put on for the debate, to driving our van at break-neck speed to get to the debate on time with Mr. Forbes and a handful of reporters shouting directions from the back seat, to our surprise post-debate visit to an international AMWAY sales convention. But one moment left an indelible impression on my mind; it was when I met John McCain.
After seeing Mr. Forbes into the VIP section to prepare for the debate, I returned to the secure area behind the center where I had parked. I met Senator Strom Thurmond coming out from the Republican Banquet at which he had just been honored. Two men guided him by either arm. I spoke briefly to him and he smiled and drooled in response. As I turned around I noticed that McCain's "Straight Talk Express" bus had pulled in. McCain was sitting with a reporter on the bus conducting an interview. I could see him mouthing his signature phrase, "my friends", over and over again. I had met all the other candidates already, save George W. Bush - whose hand I had refused to shake, his likely seizure of the Republican nomination was the reason I was supporting Steve Forbes, after all - so I waited outside the bus to meet McCain as he exited the bus.
The man is short, maybe 5'7". His arms aren't normal length, due to his torture in Vietnam, so I've been told. He has virtually no upper lip. And, of course, the guy oozes cockiness. He was congenial enough, I suppose, but I could tell he was the consummate politician. McCain was, and is, willing to say anything to grab power. To one crowd he champions himself as a progressive maverick willing to stand against the right-wing of the party, but at other times claims that he is the incarnation of Barry Goldwater and the true heir to the Reagan legacy. I didn't pretend that I was pleased to meet him and he didn't pretend to want to please me. I think it was my fluorescent orange FORBES FOR PRESIDENT campaign shirt that gave me away. As he walked on in to the convention center I had a distinct, gut feeling about John McCain. This guy was crooked.
After Steve Forbes dropped out of the race in 2000, McCain continued his fight for the Presidency against Bush and the blubbering showboat, Alan Keyes. With the Presidential election all but sewn up for King George W, I took a job as campaign manager for NC Representative Bill Hiatt. I vowed to campaign against McCain should he ever run for President again. In 2004 I joined an effort to try to persuade Congressman Ron Paul to run for President once more, but he eventually declined. Instead, I helped out on the Badnarik (Libertarian Party) and Peroutka (Constitution Party) campaigns.
Imagine my dismay that eight years from my first encounter with McCain the Republican Party still hasn't learned its lesson. Bush Jr. was bad, but McCain is worse. This time, though, I am glad to not simply be protesting someone's candidacy but proudly supporting a candidate that I truly believe in.
It gives me great pleasure to know that I am part of a political movement that is bothersome to John McCain. In this week's issue of the New Yorker, Ryan Lizza reports an exchange that McCain had with reporters regarding Ron Paul and his supporters:
"We had a debate in Iowa. I mean, it was, like, last summer, one of the first debates we had. It was raining, and I'm standing there in the afternoon, it was a couple of hours before the debate, and I happen to look out the window. Here's a group of fifty people in the rain, shouting Ron Paul! Ron Paul!' " At this point McCain begins to pound his fists on the table and chant in mockery of the Ron Paul Revolutionaries outside.
"I thought, Holy s**t, what's going on here? I mean, go to one of these debates. Drive up. Whose signs do you see? I'm very grateful, they've been very polite. I recognize them and say thanks for being here. They haven't disrupted the events. But he has tapped a vein. And it's a combination of isolationism, the old part of our party, and the conspiracy. You know? We have made an important discovery: the headquarters for the organization that's going to merge three countries into one - Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. - is in Kansas City!' "
Such bodacious babble from McCain might irk some Paulites, but not me. We have gotten under his skin. He has been compelled to accept that a very vocal and angry segment of the nation is fed up with the government's usurpation of our constitutional rights. It reminds me of what Gandhi said, "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." Well, McCain is laughing now, but soon he will be fighting for precious delegates against us at the Republican National Convention. I hope to be there to see McCain sweat. Between now and then, I'm going to work to rally supporters and give our enemies hell.
