American Revolution?
The Ron Paul legacy
Zach Germaniuk, Columnist
Issue date: 4/9/08 Section: News
But just like at the aforementioned prom after party V card paradigm, the burning question is: but what comes next? Ron Paul's campaign raised an impressive sum of money- twice. He had organizers all across the country putting in countless hours getting the word out. He had a freakin' blimp. As good a candidate as Ron Paul might have been, as good of a start as his Presidency would have been, we should remember that revolution does not begin in the capitals among the powerful, but in the streets among the powerless. Ron Paul might have been a good and necessary spark, but we have a long way to go before we can hope to see light again. The American Revolution for the 21st Century isn't going to come from the top-down government policies of "Bush-lite" McCain, Ché Guabama, or Billary Clinton. It will come, as revolutions often do, when ordinary people again look past their four walls and roof and turn off their TVs long enough to see that the only bogeyman waiting for them is the one manufactured by their own leaders.
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John Huckans
posted 4/09/08 @ 4:36 AM NA
Don't worry, this wasn't Trippi 2004. There was no Trippi helping RP's grassroots. In fact, had RP simply fired most of his campaign staff (and figured out a way for the grassroots to spend the $30M on their own projects), this story might have had a different ending. (Continued…)
Tom deSabla
posted 4/09/08 @ 4:38 AM NA
Well, here's the problem - government schools have ensured that the powerless young people have no idea what individual freedom really is nor do they realize that they don't really have it. (Continued…)
Baba Padmanabhan
posted 4/09/08 @ 5:47 AM NA
I don't understand why nobody wants to write about the blatant MSM black out of RP during the last 6 weeks leading up to Super Tuesday. I mean, nobody wants to question why Larry King Live was never aired the day before IOWA caucus? Nobody cares to find out why, 20/20 with John Stossl was never aired and why was he kept out of NH debate the weekend before NH Primary?
Media, how about researching and writing about your bias towards Dr. (Continued…)
Hugh Bodey
posted 4/09/08 @ 1:53 PM NA
Mr. Paul was NOT recognized by the media and the "powers that be" simply because he, and us, are not playing in the same ball game as they! The Trilateralists, bankers, big corporations, One Worlders, will not have an honest man like Mr. (Continued…)
Brian
posted 4/09/08 @ 3:18 PM NA
You wrote: . There are the true believers, of course, who have already canonized Paul as the patron-saint of everything right and good in America, the same people who, more often than by chance, find themselves on late-night chat rooms expressing their concern that AIDS is a biological weapon manufactured by the government. (Continued…)
RobTn4RonPaul
posted 4/09/08 @ 5:56 PM NA
Brian - Bump
Hillary Clinton's followers believe in little green men from Mars.
I love it.
Zach Germaniuk
posted 4/09/08 @ 10:27 PM NA
I refer you to the comments of Hugh Bodey.
reality check: in a nation of around 226 million people, 1 million supporters is pretty damn marginal. (Continued…)
Craig Harrington
posted 4/12/08 @ 1:06 AM NA
Zach, I know you well enough to pick you out of a lineup, we lived in Haverfield and Drackett, but I totally did not know that you were a Paulite... However, you should note that 226 million is slightly less than the population of Indonesia; the population of the United States is 300 million almost on the dot, so that 1 million strong is even MORE marginalized. (Continued…)
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