Slog - Comments on At the Target Center http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center They're lining up outside the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis for Ron Paul's Campaign For Liberty counter-convention. Everyone here is a Republican who seems to hate McCain and everything he stands for—lots of the Paultards are wearing "Proud to be a Conservative Republican" buttons—but... we only ever hear about Democratic disunity. How come? And, yeah, I only took that boy's picture because he's awful damn cute—so shoot me. No, wait. It's probably not safe to type those words aloud in this crowd. Ladies and gentlemen, Ron Paul... UPDATE: Talked to a few people outside the Target Center. Man, these Republicans... Copyright 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:29:24 -0800 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:13:31 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by that guy is boring, dan. sheesh More like Ron Suck. Zing!

]]> that guy is boring, dan. sheesh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118975 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118975 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:35:53 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Does anything look stupider than lower-case type stacked vertically?

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118976 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118976 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:36:20 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Eddie Deezen has aged well.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118979 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:37:21 -0800 Comment by Zing! If I had to answer #2, I'd say the word stupider.

]]> Zing! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118990 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1118990 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:41:52 -0800 Comment by Fnarf What the hell is wrong with "stupider"? Stupid, stupider, stupidest (that last one is you).

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119002 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119002 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:47:38 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball The blond against the wall in the background is SMOKIN'!!!

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119003 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119003 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:47:41 -0800 Comment by Balt-O-Matt Well, it looks like he's got the Revolutionary War Reenactors vote all locked up!

]]> Balt-O-Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119009 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119009 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:50:25 -0800 Comment by asteria Go Paultards! Are they going to write in Ron Paul? Their website is a bit vague.

]]> asteria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119017 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119017 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:54:15 -0800 Comment by PopTart Fnarf, thanks for the laugh!

]]> PopTart http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119029 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119029 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:02:48 -0800 Comment by Bont No teleprompters for Ron! I see he's going with old fashioned giant cue cards.

]]> Bont http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119041 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:11:21 -0800 Comment by Beguine I wasn't aware that this was the sort of convention where cosplay was common. You learn something new every day.

]]> Beguine http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119054 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119054 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:24:58 -0800 Comment by michael strangeways They still HAVE Hard Rock Cafe's?

]]> michael strangeways http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119060 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119060 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:37:28 -0800 Comment by Stpaulguy Dan,
Where is the log cabin event? I've been hoping to snag some repressed republican ass. Its the only reason I'm even remotely excited about the RNC.

]]> Stpaulguy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119065 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119065 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:39:44 -0800 Comment by eskaton To all the Obama Kool Aid drinkers, have fucking fun in the FEMA concentration camps when shit DOES NOT CHANGE AT ALL under Obama (by the way, the largest one exists in this state in Okanogan county along the Canadian border that can house hundreds of thousands of people--guess they realized the Pacific Northwest are a bunch of coward bitch Baby Huey motherfuckers as they steamrolled over you with jackboots in the 99 WTO riots to see how Seattle would respond to martial law). As the FBI were the ones who gave bombs to the blind sheik in the first WTC bombing in '93 (you can find the original videos on youtube), and the obvious inside job involvement of 9/11 (how do two planes take down three buildings into pulverized concrete falling at free fall speed?--unless the WTC was suspended in some prism of physics magic for 24 hours), Obama WILL be presented with another black op 9/11 type event in the first year of his presidency as history has shown the last two presidencies that this is the case. As Allen Dulles, first director of the CIA fired by JFK for the Bay of Pigs fiasco, stated, "Intelligence agencies do not work for the good of a nation the public presumes they are supposed to protect, they have been and will always be about securing unfettered corporate access to natural resources." And lets take a look at Obama's main foreign policy advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski...Russia player hater and Cold War dinosaur extraordinaire. This is a man that A)Formed Al-Qaeda (or rather Al-CIA-duh) B) Bragged about funding Pol Pot via China and the Cambodian genocide and C) Now wants to wave America's nuclear dick in Russias face after American and Israeli mercs were caught red-handed slaughtering South Ossetians 24 hours before Russia even set foot in Georgia (but you would never know if you did not bother to look at the news feeds from any other country in the world except the US and UK). Obama would not be where he is today if he did not prostitute himself to the military industrial complex long ago and his stance on FISA, Russia, and Iran only prove this in spades. Ron Paul was actually the closest candidate to JFK in this election (both JFK and Ron Paul advocated an end to the Federal Reserve currency cartel and smashing the CIA into a thousand pieces, the actions which got Kennedy deep sixed), but you leftards are just as stupid and vacuous as the neocon/neonazi brownshirts. The democrats had a chance with Dennis Kucinich but you fucked up again, proving since JFK that the democrats have been the party of gatekeepers. People had better snap the fuck out of that dream that somehow people that run the show here are less malevolent than the ruling classes throughout history and break the fals left-right paradigm that has been raging the last 50+ years. The rulers of the planet know American's are the stupid cows of the planet that can be punched in the head, fleeced blind, and hijacked for imperial wars, and Seattleites are no less retarded than Southern Californians or Texans. I suggest Obama immediately strip all of the Bush Sr. executive orders and continuity of government plans within his first year of office as these are prizes too great for the fascists in this country to ignore. "He who forgets the past is condemned to repeat it", George Santayana

]]> eskaton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119074 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119074 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:44:18 -0800 Comment by keshmeshi In the second photo, isn't that what's her name from the Facts of Life?

]]> keshmeshi http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119077 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119077 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:46:41 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I'll be darned, there IS something stupider than vertically-stacked lower-case type.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119078 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119078 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:47:19 -0800 Comment by Fnarf @14, I mean.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119079 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119079 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:48:17 -0800 Comment by josh bomb ahahahahahahah, good one, eskaton, you loony fuck.

]]> josh bomb http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119089 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119089 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:55:43 -0800 Comment by Greg If only all our trolls were as funny as #14.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119116 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119116 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:12:42 -0800 Comment by P to the J Once again, sound money, no foreign intervention, ending the drug war, freedom from religion, and freedom of the internet and speech are derided. Paul had no chance, but I still voted for him because his core ideas of caring for the actual American people are above the ideals of big government. Save your disdain for the neocons. I'm voting for Obama because his foreign policy is way less dangerous and having a dissenting opinion will be safer. So Paul has the truthers and the free-staters. So what? McCain has the warmongers and jesus freaks, Obama has commies, anarchists, and Charles. Every candidate has freaks, Paul's just act out in a little more crazy way than the others (see 14 above). Not all of his supporters are like that. It's just that RP does not believe in silencing anyone for political gain. He rightly thinks everyone in America has the right to say what they want as long as no hurt is placed on their neighbor. Unlike in McCain and Bush's Amerika. Just ask the people in St. Paul.

]]> P to the J http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119120 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119120 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:14:48 -0800 Comment by Nixor Yes, Dan, that guy is hella cute.

]]> Nixor http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119123 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:17:43 -0800 Comment by Hannah Damn, I knew I should have made the drive to Minneapolis.

I had no idea there were cute Paul-ites. I totally could have gotten laid tonight.

]]> Hannah http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119144 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119144 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 11:29:31 -0800 Comment by omgaw Am I the only one who sees that this young man has been bitten by a vampire?

]]> omgaw http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119219 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119219 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:12:32 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Seeing the pics of Gwen Ifill of PBS Newshour being tear-gassed and the other major media being beaten up by the cops was almost as priceless as the pics of the Libertarian anarchists destroying property at the out-of-control Republicant Convention.

How 1968 of them.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119233 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119233 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:21:23 -0800 Comment by marsupial What must it take for a person to be persuaded to so enthusiastically defame their fellow countrymen in defense of a policy of murdering hundreds of thousands of humans in order to steal their resources?

]]> marsupial http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119416 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/target_center#c1119416 2008 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:13:31 -0800