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Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Political Suicide Ron Paul Is Giving His Farewell Speech Right Now

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:21 AM

Go watch it live on CSPAN. So far, it's all about freedom (shocker!) liberty (who could've predicted?) and how much he hates "isms."

UPDATE 12:01: Well. That sure did go on for a long time. I guess Paul felt the need to offer up a manifesto, but that somehow seems like a not so special idea when every one of his speeches to date has been a manifesto. He talked about the Golden Rule, about liberty (eventually his tongue started skipping over the word, resulting in passionate statements about lubberty, lubterty, and lib-lib-lib-lib-burty) and about raw milk, which became a real pet cause in his most recent presidential campaign. Oh, and he thinks it's a shame that Americans can't spend gold and silver as legal tender. So long, Ron Paul. Your son will not be as purely entertaining as you have been for these last six years or so.

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I wish the rEVOLution hadn't been televised.

Posted by fletc3her on November 14, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Freedom and liberty, except in your own bedroom (Lawrence v Texas).

Posted by DOUG.

on November 14, 2012 at 1:14 PM

Where is he going to? The Free Republic of Texas?

Posted by RonK, Seattle on November 14, 2012 at 12:56 PM

Why are fake liberals such d-bags?

Posted by communismisbetterthansocialism on November 14, 2012 at 12:48 PM

@7 Please let it be true.

Posted by jhops on November 14, 2012 at 12:26 PM

Man, he is fucking weird.

Posted by blip on November 14, 2012 at 11:46 AM

Is he taking his son with him?

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on November 14, 2012 at 11:44 AM

Ron Paul's warning us against people exactly like himself. Yes, Ron, your power has corrupted you. You've spent countless donations on lavish meals, hotels and airfare. All to glorify yourself in the name of some fantastical demons. Fraud.

Posted by Pope Peabrain on November 14, 2012 at 11:42 AM

IT'S HAPPENING!

Posted by sirkowski

on November 14, 2012 at 11:41 AM

Factualism. Educationalism. Mathematicalism. Empiricism. Rationalism.

Let your mind be a blank slate and never question yourself. Ron Paul!

Posted by Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

on November 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM

This man has proven himself totally irrelevant in so many ways that I don't feel the need to listen to his ramblings yet again, even if it is his last time.

Posted by Knat on November 14, 2012 at 11:30 AM

I don't have to click on the link to know what he's saying.

Okay, mister, I'll get off your lawn. You don't have to be so angry.

Posted by Some Old Nobodaddy Logged In on November 14, 2012 at 11:29 AM

Sorry, I'm busy watching the President p0wn the Tax Cuts For The Rich guys right now.

Didn't Libertarians only get 1 percent of the statewide vote, 1/26th what Sawant got?

Posted by Will in Seattle