Ron Paul Says the rEVOLution Is Just Starting
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GoogleOn the Sunday before the non-beginning of the GOP convention, the Ron Paul campaign hosted its “We Are the Future Rally” at Tampa’s Sun Dome.
The overall message of the event was a bit ambiguous, but themes included frustration with the GOP, resolve to keep fighting for power within the party, and determination to keep spreading the message of liberty by any means possible.
“It didn’t feel huge in the end. It didn’t feel triumphant. And it didn’t actually even feel like an end,” said Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, author of Ron Paul’s Revolution.
Paul did not pass the torch to any clear successor, but attendees said that the movement is bigger than just one man.
“I have met too many people with too great a level of enthusiasm to believe that they’re all going to fizzle away.”
Approximately 3:45 minutes.
Produced by Tracy Oppenheimer and Zach Weissmueller.
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The dude scrooblin' with the beer at 2:12 is the message that we should take out to the country from this momentous occasion.
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So, the GOP found a way to keep Paul out - force him to submit his speech beforehand, in order to have it "approved" by the apparatchiks.
What *I* would have done, were I him: Turn in a speech, then say what the fuck I *want* to say at the convention. Make the fuckers drag me off the stage.
Fuck the GOP.
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Did anyone else notice that Oppenheimer appears to be very short?
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I have never met a short libertarian.
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Walter Block talking about mothers safely evicting fetuses as an abortion compromise was, by far, the most awkward part of the event.
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This is not revolution it’s his political campaign and he called it revolution.
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I've found Paul to be very naive in that he wouldn't take a step back from some of his more ardent positions to get the nomination. Principles are great and all, but if he let up on the foreign policy stuff and say only pushed for drug DE-criminalization among users he might have had a real shot. An once in office how much good could he have accomplished. Playing the martyr for libertarianism doesn't get much done in the real world. I think his son understands this more than he does and would make a strong candidate in 2016 or 2020.
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"Principles are great and all, but..." would be a wonderful title for a personal blog.
No better cap to a four-decade political career than selling out for the foolish hope of a nomination that will never come.
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The overall message of the event was a bit ambiguous, but themes included frustration with the GOP, resolve to keep fighting for power within the party, and http://mensnikeairmax.blogspot.kr/ determination to keep spreading the message of liberty by any means possible.
“It didn’t feel huge in the end. It didn’t feel triumphant. And it didn’t actually even feel like an end,” said Reason Senior Editor Brian Doherty, author of Ron Paul’s Revolution.
Paul did not pass the torch to any clear successor, but attendees said that the movement is bigger than just one man.
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The overall message of the event was a bit ambiguous, http://www.airmaxsalle.com/hom.....-c-26.html but themes included frustration with the GOP, resolve to keep fighting for power within the party, and determination to keep spreading the message of liberty by any means possible.
