Ron paul wins CPAC straw poll!!!

[GunnyFreedom]

I hope someone calls Beck tomorrow and asks him why he disses someone like Ron Paul---while he co-opts most of Ron's talking points.

Also, he needs to be asked what it is about BIG MILITARY that makes it qualify as SMALL GOVERNMENT.

Just my opinion.

Our big military would cost one heckuvalot less if they were stationed in CONUS, and our economy would bounce back a lot more quickly if they were spending their pay in those ghost towns like Charleston SC who used to host active bases.

As for me (and I believe Ron Paul too) we both support (at least nominally, until we can transition into a more Constitutional framework) this big military, but only that they should be here at HOME, where they would cost approx half of what the same force costs spread all over the planet.

We can't simply disband the military unless we have in place a strong militia framework such as the Constitution intended, and that will take literally decades of hard work and education to bring about.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

I would agree that Glenn Beck is a jerk, but comparing Glenn Beck to Hitler is crazy.

Well, you gotta understand that that is a symptom of the frustration -- remember that Beck compared Medina to Hitler....

 

[Anti Federalist]

I would agree that Glenn Beck is a jerk, but comparing Glenn Beck to Hitler is crazy.

No, crazy is deliberately manipulating audio files of your own show, in order to slander a political candidate who agrees with everything you say you believe in.

That's crazy.

And like I've already stated, I'm thinking it's criminal as well.

And then saying that person has anything of value to add to the discussion after pulling a stunt like that, well, that's pretty crazy too.

 

[Brett]

This is a great win!

Can't ignore us much longer.

 

[RonPaulVolunteer]

I still need someone that has the CPAC speech in nice quality so I can put it on the Ron Paul Video Podcast. Thanks.

 

[FrankRep]

No, crazy is deliberately manipulating audio files of your own show, in order to slander a political candidate who agrees with everything you say you believe in.

That's crazy.

Glenn Beck is a Jerk, but Debra Medina (as much as I love her) made a serious political mistake by dancing around the 9/11 Truther question. She should have said: "I'm NOT a 9/11 Truther." We can't shift all the blame to Beck.

After saying that, Go Debra Medina for Texas Governor!
A regular person, not a Politician!
http://www.medinafortexas.com/

 

[devil21]

Explain how 9-11 were the starters of this movement? I admit I was blinded by the false left-right I was also a teenager. Ron Paul has helped me seen whats really going on. I always viewed the movement as traditional conservatives, liberterians, disgruntled pregressives, and truthers all blended together.

Truthers got the word out MUCH better and faster than anyone else did in the early going of the campaign about Ron Paul's candidacy. Not because they view RP has being a Truther himself (he has stated repeatedly that he is not) but because RP is the only HONEST politician out there, and was running for President, which gave Truthers someone to support in hopes of a real investigation taking place. Alex Jones had him on repeatedly, which started the name recognition and led to the onslaught of RP "spamming" across the net. A Truther spamming Aaron Russo videos got my attention first and Im sure many others were brought in the same way.

Im not suggesting that Truthers were the first Patriots, as I think Gunny has interpreted my statement. Truthers got the campaign off the ground and the campaign was the start of the Liberty movement underway. After all, if not for RP's candidacy we wouldn't be here right now posting about this.

 

[FrankRep]

Truthers got the word out MUCH better and faster than anyone else did in the early going of the campaign about Ron Paul's candidacy. Not because they view RP has being a Truther himself (he has stated repeatedly that he is not) but because RP is the only HONEST politician out there, and was running for President, which gave Truthers someone to support in hopes of a real investigation taking place.

I'm not a Truther, but the We Are Change organization has quite impressive with spreading information and confronting corrupt politicians. These guys have real guts and they network very well. WeAreChange, please remember though, it's political suicide for politicians to "publicly" support you. Keep it on the down low and kick some butt out there.

 

[StateofTrance]

Someone mentioned that Romney will bring bus load of people to 2011 CPAC..Well..Then we should bring plane load of people.

 

[The Deacon]

Romney and Ron Paul are the two most likely candidates for the 2012 nomination. Sarah Palin is not a serious candidate. However, I'll concede that Romney has the upper hand right now.

However, the primary is winnable for us much moreso than 2008. We're much more organized than last time around. Plus Romney was basically the architect of PelosiCare for Massachusetts, which is precisely the type of project many folks are protesting against. So the idea that RP will get the bulk of the conservative vote is not out of the question. If there are too many moderate voters then it could be more challenging.

 

[specsaregood]

Truthers got the campaign off the ground and the campaign was the start of the Liberty movement underway.

I know truthers like to claim the credit for this but in reality it simply isn't true. His campaign got off the ground simply because he already had support in a wide variety of niches and activists in all of them. Sure there were a lot of truthers, but their reach was rather limited. There were people ready to hop on board the Paul-bus who's primary issues were: taxes (taxpayers best friend), gold bugs/precious metals anti-fed people, alternative health care, abortion, anti-war, 2nd amendment. His reach was already quite extensive activists in all those categories and more already knew about him.

In my area it was all about the birchers. Sure there were some truthers, but it was the JBS people that were already organized and led the way full throttle. The local truthers and crew wanted to put signs up or do sign waves or do protests, while the jbs crew were already printing out thousands of handouts, getting lists of events to hit and sign up for booths and dragging all the newbs out to the events and training them on how to get out in the public. When the time came to go door to door, it was the jbs crew that had the voter lists and actively recuited people to do it.

So in short, sure the truthers helped but no one group can take the credit for getting it off the ground. Hell, I had already been to a couple events pimping Ron Paul with the birchers in the spring of 2007 before I had ever heard of alex jones.

 

[FrankRep]

In my area it was all about the birchers. Sure there were some truthers, but it was the JBS people that were already organized and led the way full throttle. The local truthers and crew wanted to put signs up or do sign waves or do protests, while the jbs crew were already printing out thousands of handouts, getting lists of events to hit and sign up for booths and dragging all the newbs out to the events and training them on how to get out in the public. When the time came to go door to door, it was the jbs crew that had the voter lists and actively recruited people to do it.

The John Birch Society has been doing this stuff for 50 years. The JBS has been supporting Ron Paul for decades too. Ron Paul even thanked them for their support.


Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of the John Birch Society.

Viddler.com - Ron Paul At the 50th Anniversary of JBS - Uploaded by jbirch

 

[georgiaboy]

!!!!!yayyyy!!!!!
Gorongo!!
Freedom!
Liberty!
Constitution!

 

[Agorism]

Genuine mommy will not be happy with these results!