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Walter said:I don't really give two shits about any candidate that's thrown their hat into the ring so far, so don't consider this an attack on Mr. Paul. However, I think it's uncanny how much Ron Paul has been getting his name into the mix in the past few weeks. This guy was a relative unknown (still is, really), but just this week I've literally seen his name plastered, spoken and typed across nearly every branch of communication the world has to offer.
This weekend I was doing some last-minute shopping at a popular mall area near Nashville (Cool Springs, to anyone who knows it), and there were nearly 40-50 people waving Ron Paul campaign signs in snowy weather at one of the most trafficked intersections.
"Who the fuck is Ron Paul?" I asked myself. "Oh yeah, he's that guy with a thread on my forums. So who the fuck is Ron Paul?" I asked one of the campaigners as I pulled over to the side of the street.
His answer wasn't exactly earth-shaking, but I don't blame him for that, he likely wasn't paid very much by Mr. Paul to be out in freezing rain.
"Why should I vote for him if hes Pro-Life?" I asked.
The guy's answer was something along the lines of "he's worked as an OBGYN and he knows his shit."
CNN has a new article about the man that jsut cropped up AS I TYPED THIS ENTRY. I shit you not, this man has got connections: http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/18/paul.fundraising/index.html
Yet, he still comes off as benign to me. One of the million William Jennings Bryans that will be long-forgotten by next election year.
Since when did obscurity in and of itself become a reason to be disdainful of someone? Is sk.net a piece of shit because most of the human race has never heard of it? I guess the answer to the old parable, from you anyway, of "when a tree falls in a wood and no one is around to hear it, does it make a noise?" is no.
CnC said:As an aside, CNN has discovered that mentioning Paul gets HUGE hits on the site (from sites like digg, etc.)
I notice you utterly ignored my request to give me a single policy from any candidate in the world during any election ever, who provided by your definition of the word, a "detailed" plan to achieve their objective.
Edit: I'd like to make another point, did you read that fundraising link you gave Walter? What point were you trying to make? It says how Ron Paul gets his money from a larger number of individuals who give smaller amounts of money than his opponents and he still raises more money. Are you actually criticising him for having the support of a lot of little people?