We Are The Future Rally - live updates and discussion thread

[sailingaway]

What this guy is saying is important and energizing -- I wish someone with a half way energizing voice, rather than a parsing the gospel voice, were presenting it.

 

[FrankRep]

Ron Paul "republiCAN" Rally Off to Raucous and Controversial Start


Sunshine State News
August 26, 2012

The next speaker, libertarian theoretician and economist Walter Block, injected quite a bit of controversy into the afternoon festivities, repeating a lecture he gave Friday at the Ron Paul Festival in the nearby Florida State Fairgrounds. He proposed a political and philosophical compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice positions in the abortion contrary, which he calls “evictionism.”

His lecture drew many more boos and hisses at the Saturday rally than it did the day before, so much so that Block interrupted his prepared remarks several times to ask the crowd to hear him out. “Ours is [in part] an intellectual movement,” he pleaded. “If an intellectual libertarian can’t come to a place like this without this without getting booed or hissed, that’s a disgrace.”

The crowd may not have warmed to this particular speech, but they gave Block the man a standing ovation at his speech’s conclusion.​

 

[phill4paul]

So, did Hunter attack Santorum? If so, and if Santorum is no threat in 2016, why attack/mention a candidate that is not in the race anymore?

He was explaining the difference between them. Santorum's delegates were released. Don't know if he was trying to piss them off or pick them up.

 

[Okie RP fan]

What this guy is saying is important and energizing -- I wish someone with a half way energizing voice, rather than a parsing the gospel voice, were presenting it.

What are you watching? A blonde woman is talking on me feed...

 

[Carlybee]

Also not a fan of replacing r3VOLution with RepubliCAN. At all.

ditto

I had a Mexican friend who used to say.."Be a MexiCAN not a MexiCANT"....reminds me of that when I see it. It's like the word Revolution was too controversial or something.

 

[Shane Harris]

Did you hike the precipice?

hmm I don't remember. We did drive (cheating) to the top of that major mountain peak, and we whale watched. Nice place. Great burgers at the Finback Whalehouse in Bar Harbor.

 

[Feeding the Abscess]

I think he was trying to say that we have advanced technology to save late term babies and keep them alive, so there is no need to kill them. And that medical technology is bound to get better and better as the years go on.

This. People won't see or understand that, though. Block's actually promoting a way that doesn't kill a life, encourages technology, respects property rights, and doesn't involve the government. Sounds great, right?

No, let's boo!

 

[NoOneButPaul]

Donna Holt was great.

 

[sailingaway]

Ron Paul "republiCAN" Rally Off to Raucous and Controversial Start


Sunshine State News
August 26, 2012

The next speaker, libertarian theoretician and economist Walter Block, injected quite a bit of controversy into the afternoon festivities, repeating a lecture he gave Friday at the Ron Paul Festival in the nearby Florida State Fairgrounds. He proposed a political and philosophical compromise between the pro-life and pro-choice positions in the abortion contrary, which he calls “evictionism.”

His lecture drew many more boos and hisses at the Saturday rally than it did the day before, so much so that Block interrupted his prepared remarks several times to ask the crowd to hear him out. “Ours is [in part] an intellectual movement,” he pleaded. “If an intellectual libertarian can’t come to a place like this without this without getting booed or hissed, that’s a disgrace.”

The crowd may not have warmed to this particular speech, but they gave Block the man a standing ovation at his speech’s conclusion.​

Well, that's better than it might have been.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

On CSPAN 1 Now.

 

[mac_hine]

I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl here, but this event, thus far, has me very underwhelmed. IMO, the speeches, (aside from Rockwell and Schaffer) have been boring.

Here's a list of liberty people I would have liked to see:

Tom Woods
Stefan Molyneux
Jeffrey Tucker
Sibel Edmonds
TMOT
Walter E. Williams
Larken Rose
Peter Schiff
Jerry Doyle
G. Edward Griffin

There are many others. These are just off my head.

 

[coffeewithchess]

He was explaining the difference between them. Santorum's delegates were released. Don't know if he was trying to piss them off or pick them up.

The difference between Ron Paul and Rick Santorum...a candidate that's not in the race? Doesn't make sense to me, unless you think (like I do) that the campaign wasn't trying to win, and is looking at 2016 for Rand. Which, as I have said is dishonest IMO.
How many times did Hunter compare RP to Mitt Romney?

 

[Shane Harris]

where can I find the roster of speakers for the rest of the day?

 

[wgadget]

I hate to be the turd in the punch bowl here, but this event, thus far, has me very underwhelmed. IMO, the speeches, (aside from Rockwell and Schaffer) have been boring.

Here's a list of liberty people I would have liked to see:

Tom Woods
Stefan Molyneux
Jeffrey Tucker
Sibel Edmonds
TMOT
Walter E. Williams
Larken Rose
Peter Schiff
Jerry Doyle
G. Edward Griffin

There are many others. These are just off my head.

I think a lot of the people on your list were at PaulFest.

 

[FrankRep]

Are these speeches being put online?

 

[wgadget]

My awesome analytical powers are telling me that someone has determined that MITT ROMNEY is not allowed to be mentioned at this rally, in any light.

 

[Lucille]

Also not a fan of replacing r3VOLution with RepubliCAN. At all.

Me either.

When Ernest Hancock--a Libertarian Party guy and freelance anarchist revolutionary who does his Internet business over at Freedom's Phoenix--designed the very popular "Ron Paul rEVOLution" logo (as seen on the cover of my book Ron Paul's Revolution) I'm quite confident he never dreamed of this, the logo used for today's ongoing Ron Paul rally at the Sundome in Tampa, Florida:
[...]
Hancock told me in vivid terms when I interviewed him for my book he was very, very uninterested in any attempt to turn the Paul movement into something fully embedded in the Republican Party. I sought comment from him today but haven't gotten it yet; I'll update if I do.

But Hancock never wanted to claim ownership of that logo or idea. What's more important is whether all the Paul revolutionaries will see their future as being "good Republicans" or people trying to use the Republican Party as a tool for liberty. The talks so far here at the Paul rally--which I'll be reporting on more later today--are leaning nicely, for the most part, in recognizing that it's about liberty, not Party.

 

[wgadget]

Are these speeches being put online?

I'm watching them online.

http://www.c-span.org/RNC/Events/Ron-Paul-Holds-Rally-in-Tampa-Fla/10737433373-1/

 

[Carlybee]

My awesome analytical powers are telling me that someone has determined that MITT ROMNEY is not allowed to be mentioned at this rally, in any light.

surprise surprise

 

[MarcusI]

So, did Hunter attack Santorum? If so, and if Santorum is no threat in 2016, why attack/mention a candidate that is not in the race anymore?

I don't know why he attacked Santorum, but I wanted to point out that there is no more point in attacking Ryan/Romney than in attacking Santorum right now, as the race is over...

In four years... who knows what happens?