Thanks for the update, Brad.
You are, however, a big, fat show-off, though ("I've got a Ron Paul t-shirt from 1998").
I may be a lot of things, but at 5'6'' tall and weighing in at 130 lbs, I'm not usually tagged as "big" or "fat."
(I've got a couple of 'em, and a button from the 1988 campaign.
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EDIT: Oh, yes, and the dogs were there too, of course. I got to talking with a passerby with his dog who, it turns out, works for AIPAC, so I immediately asked if he saw the NYT Mag article on Dr. Paul. He said he wasn't sure, so I told him how it described how Dr. Paul alone stood up for Israel's right to defend itself when they bombed the Iraqi nuclear plant and was condemned by the UN, Reagan Administration and everyone else. He returned later with his girlfriend and dog (he had gone to meet her) and we chatted again (only about the dogs) so even a guy at AIPAC can be approached with success. I'm not saying he's a Paul supporter now, but
I am saying everyone we meet is a Paul supporter already or a potential Paul supporter if we're smart about it. I also talked with the (Mexican-American) valets how Dr. Paul has a bill to make tips tax free, is against war, and how he delivered Selena. Afterwards, a few of us went to dinner and we gave literature to our server including a pitch about Dr. Paul's bill making tips tax free and another server came out later, liked that idea, and asked us about health care and abortion (she's pro-life). On an even more random side note, when walking the dogs and running errands this morning, I was walking and chatting with a guy who first asked me about the dogs, I asked where he worked (at a phone bank run by the RNC two blocks from my house), so I told him about my support for Dr. Paul (it just comes out automatically with everyone I meet...), and he responded that "Dr. Paul is too conservative" for him!
Later EDIT: On an even more random note, I've mention stories on the forum how my brother passes out bumper stickers, etc., back home. Well, my Clinton-lovin' "other brother" in San Francisco told me last night he would only put a sign on his window for Dr. Paul because he doesn't put bumper stickers on his car. I told him there are magnetic ones (forgeting in the moment about the non-sticky window decals), so he said he'd do that and wanted another one for his token libertarian friend. Anyone on the forum here in SF with extras?
