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Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Live-Slogging Ron Paul's We-Didn't-Win-or-Make-Any-Sort-of-Difference Speech

Posted by on Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:05 PM

Ron Paul won second place in Minnesota. Now he's going to pretend that mattered. Let's live-Slog it, shall we? "Believe it or not, we did well tonight," Ron Paul says. That's what I like my candidates to say. He says they did well in "delgates," which is where they "excel." I think other candidates are ahead in delegates, Ron Paul. "I think we're going to have the maximum number of delegates coming out of Minnesota," he says, and he says the results in Maine "will be very good as well." He thinks his candidates "really believe in something. I think it must be a lot more fun campaigning for something you believe in rather than when you're campaigning for nothing!"

He goes back into the "entitlement system" and "perpetual wars" of the government. "Today, the American people are way ahead of the people in Washington." Paul says, again, people have told him to give up on his foreign policy, "but foreign policy has built this campaign!" "The Soviets self-destructed...and thankfully we didn't have to fight 'em." Now he's comparing America to the Soviet Union. How is this guy not at the top of all the Republican polls, I ask you? Man, he looks old. He's in a thin red sweater over a blue shirt and red tie. "There's always an appetite for big goverment," Paul says, because "people like to get things for free." Paul's licking his lips and stumbling around words a lot. He really doesn't look well. Chants of "END THE FED" fill the air. Paul points out that the Constitution still says that money should be based on gold and silver. A thousand potheads' brains just exploded. He says we have "underminded, er, undermined" the Constitution.

Liberty "brings people together," he says, but "we lost our faith and confidence and we have to restore that...this is our only solution if our goal be peace and prosperity." He rails against "mischief-makers" who want to control you. Ron Paul says "we're going to keep this momentum" and then he staggers away to cheers. I would like to remind you that as of right now, Ron Paul has won absolutely no states. Santorum has won three, Romney has won three, and Gingrich has won one. Ron Paul's definition of momentum sure is weird.

 

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So you're saying there's a chance?
Posted by cliche on February 7, 2012 at 8:20 PM
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If you can get by Ron Paul's crazy-talk there are some take aways from his quixotic crusade...

Any other candidates would do nasty things to pick up his 9%.

He's building a base for Rand in 2016, 2020 and 2024.

The Republicans are having a much more interesting primary season then the Democrats who spent much of the last few years bad mouthing their own standard bearer.
Posted by Zander on February 7, 2012 at 8:26 PM
Max Solomon 3
you'll miss him when he drops out. more than santorum.
Posted by Max Solomon on February 7, 2012 at 8:33 PM
MacCrocodile 4
And the government shouldn't be allowed to come into your home and just tell you what momentum means! It's every American's right to define momentum as he sees fit. The invisible hand of the market will define momentum, you fucking commie.
Posted by MacCrocodile on February 7, 2012 at 8:37 PM

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