I caught a bit of Ron Paul’s gathering on C-SPAN. My friends, that is where the energy is on the right. Bush, Fred Thompson, and Lieberman were presiding over a funeral dirge in a spectacularly empty auditorium, while the Paul faithful – as nutty and simplistic as they may be – had some actual life to them.
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They are enthusiastic, but they are also insane. Which is a fun combination to watch, but a bad combination if you want to get anything done.
All I want them to get done is to pull enough votes from McCain that this thing doesn’t come down to a few Diebold machines in Ohio.
I was so sure Ron Paul would run as an independent after inevitably losing the primaries. I am sad. He could have SDP’d the Republican vote.
RELOVEUTION!
It appears that the GOP has positioned the stage in the arena so that a third of the seats would not have a view of it, causing the attendees to bunch themselves more densely.
We do the same kind of thing here in Philly for the Thanksgiving parade. The only seats available to the general public for vieweing the dance routines are in the background. The audience winds up seeing only the backs of the performers, but provide the impression that more people are actually in attendance. The performers are dancing and singing their hearts out to a group of almost empty bleachers set up for city employees who mostly don’t show up.
Barry Goldwater Jr.’s skinny dipping story ruled at the Paul convention last night
In my town, I’ll admit it’s been fun watching the ‘guns, god and gold’ conservatives allied with the decriminalize-all-substances, end-the-war hippies.