Lennon/McCartney "The Fool On The Hill"
with "Paul" in hiz name for the current candidate.
1968, '72, '80, 88, 92, and '96.
He came in second to G. H. W. Bush in the ND Primary in 1992.
He won a total of 10,984 votes in that years Presidential Primaries.
That party is sick.
The Grand Old Sick Party!
LOL
Ya gotta admit they do look a whole lot alike sittin' at these desks, right?
Sorry for the error.
Ennyhow they're also both perennial comedy candidates with no chance of winning.
Unfortunately the Republiteas will take ennyone seriously.
The only reason Pat Paulsen hasn't run since 1996 is cuz he died in 1997. :(
Hopefully Ron Paul will hang up his patent leathers before then. :)
Ron Paul was born in 1935 and my math makes him 76 or so now. Cool, the dude's got energy and stamina and looks to be in pretty good shape. He's an MD. That's gudd, take care of yourself Ron, just get out of public life for crying out loud!
He was a military MD in uniform, thanks for that service Ron! Much obliged. Gotta luv anyone who serves in uniform. Luvya man! A sincere thanx for suturing up fellow uniformed victims of war. Gotcha on that one. Ennyone doing that for awhile would be anti-war, and you are. So point made there, guy!
Unfortunately, being an MD and going into practice privately as an obstetrician in Texas (these TX pols can be a pain can't they--LBJ, Dubya, Ron Paul--cheeeze!) made him even more concerned about his blossoming bankroll and population-exploding family and instead of being a liberal he decided to be a libertarian and oppose war AND social justice. :( Bad move Ron. He opposes all government and basically doesn't want to pay any taxes at all on his considerable financial wad as a Doctor who had spent a career dipping into all that private medical insurance money down in TX. WRONG RON!
Oops. Sorry. Didit again. That's Pat again.
There's Ron, gettin' himself all worked up at a right wing conference.
He gets himself worked up a lot. When he does
the pitch of his voice goes way up and he
sounds like he's gonna
have a heart attack
or sumthin'
I don't want HIS hand on the nuclear button!
Phew!
Didja ever hear Ron Paul in an interview or a debate, btw, when someone asks him a question he has no legitimate answer for? Not only does his voice rise in pitch 100 times over, he looks crazy just like Jack Nicholson or sumthin'! And instead of talking about the issue at hand he raises his voice AND his pitch. Imagine him on that red phone with Vladimir Putin or something. OMG!
So after landing himself a seat in the U.S. House outa TX, which apparently does not require much in the way of qualifications these days, he joins up with the Libertarian Party, ditches his Republican friends who supported him and ran and won their nomination for Prez in 1988--first try at the Presidency. He raked in a whopping 0.5% of the popular vote and 0 votes in the 1988 Electoral College. Congratulations Idea Man! Pat Paulsen likely did better. Lol. :D
So, since that idea of running on the Libertarian line didn't pan out for Ron, he decided to ditch his Libertarian friends and supporters and remain on the Republican line for Congress and for his asterisk of a Presidential primary campaign in 2008. The media has reported great enthusiasm among students and fund-raising in the 2008 campaign, but Ron won no primaries at all, no evidence of fund raising prowess was evident when he cited financial problems for withdrawing from the race in June 2008, and he had minimal delegates and influence at the Republican convention. Nobody took his campaign seriously. Congrats Ron. Again, a Pat Paulsen similarity here.
Lennon/McCartney "I'm A Loser"
A strange side note. In the 1990's, Ron started publishing a newsletter and with his own name as the byline it said: "Boy, it sure burns me to have a national holiday for Martin Luther King. I voted against this outrage time and time again as a Congressman." With the Ron Paul byline in his same newsletter the following also appeared: "Opinion polls consistently show only about 5% of blacks have sensible opinions." And this gem also came out of the same Ron Paul publication: "Homosexuals, not to speak of the rest of society, were far better off when social pressure forced them to hide their activities." OK Ron? Really? He tried to squirm outa this one by saying ghost writers wrote under his name on a newsletter owned by him, but in March of 2001 finally and only reluctantly admitted that "he bore 'some moral responsibility' for their publication" (Wikipedia).
Ron Paul's Newsletter commentaries in the 1990's and his
Quixotic 3rd Party Libertarian bid for Prez in 1978
and the racial overtones
remind one of Lyndon LaRouche
and these LaRouche wackos outside my
U.S. Post Office this past winter.
See the racist poster of our
awesome incumbent
President Obama?
So we fast-forward to 2010, and the spawn of Ron, Rand Paul. Ron IS now 76, and may have a sense that he might wind up like George H. W. Bush and decide that he wants to do things later in life like skydive instead of being a politician, so he puts his son up for Senate in Kentucky. OMG. What a foolish campaign and a dangerous incompetent Rand turns out to be.
Ron 'n Rand! OMG! Scary.
It's true, thanks to the Paul family, Aqua Buddha entered the
American political 'dialogue.' OMG! Scary.
When a perfectly legal and non-violent humorous female protester dressed all
funny outside a Senatorial debate during the
2010 Rand Paul Senate campaign
and Rand Paul supporters assaulted her
Rand was silent on the matter
and his father,
Republican Presidential Candidate Ron Paul
was even more silent and unseen for days on my TV screen.
OMG! Scary.
So Rand is now the heir apparent to a political dynasty which extends from one end of a Houston suburb to the other end of that same district. In other words everyone's making much ado about nothing as far as the Ron Paul candidacy is concerned. Ron's trademarks: Disloyalty (just ask the Libertarians who donated time, money and effort to his Prez campaign when he ran for them and the Repubs who donated to his Congressional campaign when he decided to ditch them for the Libertarian nod), Extremism--such as ending the Department of Education and public education altogether, Irresponsibility--not speaking out on son Rand's tacit endorsement of beating women protesters, Self-Aggrandizement--he sure is on the TV screen a whole lot and never stands a chance of winning the Presidency, Ineffectiveness--no one takes him seriously in Congress, And a face just like Pat Paulsen's.
I suggest that you seriously consider re-electing the awesome incumbent President Barack Obama instead!
So, re-elect President Obama in 2012. The short list of Obama achievements:
1) Ending the reign of terror that was Osama Bin Laden.2) Ending Don't Ask Don't Tell- The official Defense Department policy of legal discrimination against gay and lesbian heros.3) Negotiating and passing through the U.S. Senate the START treaty with Russia.4) Passage of the highly successful $700billion TARP bill.5) Passage of the first-step Health Care Reform Act of 2010.6) Removing 100,000 of our bravest and best from harm's way in Iraq.7) Getting a $20 billion down payment from BP before the spill was even over.8) Intimidating Tony "Wayward" Hayward into resigning as the immoral head of BP, taking a demotion and hiding out in Putin's Russia to avert prosecution by Attorney General Eric Holder.9) Naming 2 women in a row to the U.S. Supreme court with brains.10) Having a brain himself as President, post-George Dubya Bush. Refreshing, huh?barackobama.com
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