Universally Comprehensive Schemes and the Failure of Ron Paul
November 29th, 2007 by Dane AndradeThe salad days of the bloated clusterfuck to the Whitehouse are all but over and the corporate Special Olympics is replaced now by the grandstanding political version of the WWF, where the blood and passionate diatribes serve as a surprise reminder that we are actually suppose to believe the verbal brutality has any veracity.
The mass media has chosen an interesting collection of second rate public officials. Interestingly enough, half of them don’t even believe in public service, effectively declaring that they deserve to be elected on the merits of their own unworthiness to serve the public. This very fascinating fact could only be compared to an all too early appeal to a violation of Godwin’s Law, for which I will take no part.
Instead, let’s take a book out of fine nude art and focus on the flaccid penis of a campaign by Ron Paul. To be fair, there is a deep resonating appeal of the ideals written and spoken by Ron Paul for me. I could read his thoughts and consider myself sold on someone who exemplified magnanimously the ideals of a freedom-loving libertarian. I even introduced Ron Paul to many others, with surprising results. I never stopped searching and learning about Dr. Paul. I learned that despite the fact that 90% of Ob/Gyns support a woman’s right to make decisions on her body, even if it meant the termination of the unborn, Ron Paul does not. I forgave him that, believing that most states wouldn’t be that stupid to make a law against it. I forgave Ron Paul for his cringe worthy belief that this country is a Christian Nation, despite the fact that his heroes, Ayn Rand and Thomas Jefferson were openly mocking of his faith. Believe me, this was really difficult for me. I forgave Ron Paul for ignoring seven handwritten letters asking him to clarify for me his stance on the separation of church and state and his desire to “restore” the first amendment to it’s intended purpose. I had always thought that the 200 years of historical affirmation of the establishment clause and religious freedom clause were sound, but Paul believes that prayer should be “brought back” into schools. Since prayer is already allowed, one must believe he means that he would support teacher led prayer, and the state’s right to enforce such a measure on it’s school districts. Some would argue that he wants to eliminate federal control of education, which is honorable, except that in his actions again, he has proposed big government amendments that would allow the current state run education system to violate the establishment clause. Of course, it wouldn’t be violating it if he personally changed it with an amendment, which was the desire, and ultimately the problem. I forgave him that. I really did. There are much bigger problems in America. The war, the economy. Which is why I defended Ron Paul to the best of my ability, and challenged his grassroot supporters in their fledgling embrace of the ideals of liberty. Ron Paul certainly seemed to understand it…
Which brings me back to his campaign. If Ron Paul believes most of what he spews, he would use embarrassing association with the Republican Party as a platform to launch a candidacy for President under another party or run as an independent. I have heard the many defenders of the position not to, and they simply don’t jive. If Ron Paul believes as strongly as he does about civil liberties, about non-intervention, about state’s rights, he will forgo the clusterfuck that is partisan politics and run a nasty grassroots campaign for President right now. His supporters are passionate, he has drawn from all walks of life in American people and he has brought together people of such wildly opposing viewpoints that one must stand back and observe in awe at what the system is suppose to look like…
Money is pouring in. The campaign was so well tuned for efficiency and spendthrift tidiness that it doesn’t know what to do with the money. Ron Paul is left defending himself in debates instead of preaching his message. I have seen commercials for fucking Drunkin Duncan Hunter, and I have seen nothing from Ron Paul. This is the time to make the move. This is the time to pull and push for those big endorsements, to force yourself in defiance to the established way of doing things and demand a platform, demand time, and use the support of the people pushing you to BUY that time if you must.
The campaign has pissed me off. This isn’t the passion of someone who wishes to win. I honestly don’t know what Ron Paul wants anymore. He doesn’t want the Presidency. Who the fuck is advising him? This is setting up to be the biggest joke on the voting public I have ever read about… to build up the passion of freedom thirsty people, and then to stragglefuck around like a self-deluded muppet is inexcusable, especially while invoking the real meaning of liberty, drawing from the apathetic a sense of power, a rise of common sense, a desire for involvement. As the representative who caused this, you cannot just fade away like a popped zit. You cannot sit back with that righteous half-wit goofy smile and suggest that you are going to win the republican nomination. He can’t be that stupid.
Dr. Paul, you had sold me. Against the things I disagreed with you on, things that were important to me, I still defended you. I hate the Republican Party, it deserves to lose every election from here to Anchorage. I registered as a Republican so I could vote for you. I’ve given money to your campaign. I convinced myself that it was all for the better. I dealt with the hordes of insane followers. The religious fanatics, the homophobic ex-neocons, the heartless droves of ignorant in hopes that this was going to be different. That you would lead us to the promise land.
Instead, you are more impotent than Fred Thompson, and he isn’t even trying. Your campaign is a joke. In fact, your campaign right now is comprised totally of grassroot efforts and passionate youths building websites, forums, youtube videos on their own. Where is your passion? Where is half of the passion of your supporters? This is incomprehensible. I cannot believe what I am seeing.
This is your failure. Not your ideals. Not your stances. Most of your policies would actually keep your own stupidity in check. I can excuse all these things, and I can exclude blame from the people I know who pour their heart out for you. No, I am not one of them, but I don’t have to be… this isn’t the fault of your supporters. This is your fault. This is your passionless dance. This is your time, and unlike 1988, you have a fighting chance. This country is anti-war. This country is anti-government. This country is pro-freedom. Where the fuck are you Ron Paul?
I don’t care if the backwood morons of Texas have voted you in as a Republican . You are running as the President of the United States of America. Act like you can handle that, act like you have a pair of balls. Don’t turn your back on the people who are fighting for you, as an extension of themselves. Yes. These people are voting for you Ron Paul, they are voting for themselves, for their reasons. You are failing them. This money, and there will be more, I promise you, this money is for you to compete on the level of the media chosen. You are meant to compete with them. Forget the success of the movement and focus on how the movement started. Focus on what you stand for… WE THE PEOPLE.
Dr. Paul your campaign is joke. Fire people, now. Do something different. You paid the same amount of money to be included in that debate and you choked. I’m not going to give you grief for appealing to big names. Impress a few celebrities, do what you have to do, because your message transcends you, it goes beyond you, and it resonates with people who should care. You have to act like you give a fuck.
Damn you Ron Paul. Don’t do this to us. Don’t do this to your supporters. You say you are not going to run if you don’t get the nomination.
Well, guess what? You aren’t going to get the nomination. So you’re not running. Tell that to our face. Grow a fucking spine and tell us exactly why you are not acting like you’re running for President; because you know deep down, that you aren’t running.
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November 29th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
He could spam the election by using his overwhelming money advantage to bus voters to the polls en masse. And its not like they could cancel the results because Ron Paul won.
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November 29th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Ron Paul is just a third tier candidate with 10 million dollars. He isn’t doing anything wrong. The media is doing everything right to malign him when it’s his turn to speak. They’ll do it again, and again, and it it’s not going to change the world. Not for the better, anyway. Thank you.
November 29th, 2007 at 11:42 pm
I love your enthusiasm, but I think you misunderstand the philosophical underpinings of Ron Paul’s nomination bid. Understand this - He is not going to do anything for you. He has these philosophical positions, which entail smaller government. He will work to limit government. Likely, that will take the form of veto, veto, veto, veto… I am still excited about it. I wouldn’t mind if they shut down that shit-hole Washington DC for 4 years. I would be willing to pay them their salaries to shut the fuck up, and stop passing laws that steal our money.
Quit bitching about freedom.
Vote Ron Paul.
November 30th, 2007 at 11:09 am
Wow Rhys, thanks for reading the whole thing, as it appears extremely apparent that you didn’t.
“I love your enthusiasm, but I think you misunderstand the philosophical underpinings of Ron Paul’s nomination bid.”
It is spelled underpinning, and I know very well what Ron Paul stands for, do you? You seem to be the kind of person who just uses the same rhetoric to “anti-Paul” articles and this time it’s coming home to roost. I am attacking Ron Paul’s enthusiasm, not his policies.
Don’t be idiots, read.
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December 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Agreed. This is not to say I’m giving up, but right now, we’re siding with the boy at the party waiting for a girl to talk to him, instead of the guy talking and courting, getting all the girls. Ron needs to FORCE his message at debates, not act like he’s not there.
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December 24th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
I greatly appreciation this article you have written and I mostly agree with it. You are probably right in your decision to end your support, but my idealism and stubbornness prevents me from giving up. I will fight the good fight even if Paul won’t to his fullest. There must be some way to reach him with this. If he would just act like he did back in 1988 he might have a damn chance.
Also part of his problem running as an independent is that many states have sore loser laws that would prevent him from being on the ballot, which I consider to be very undemocratic but those are the laws none the less. Further I’m not sure that those laws could be overturned in time for him to be put on the ballot as an independent. I believe that he will stick with the Republican Party and attempt to rebuild the Taft/Goldwater/Old Right of the Republican Party. Paul seems to believe that change can not occur outside of the current two party system without a lot of rule changes that can only happen through the two-party system without a revolution occurring.