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03-24-2008, 05:52 AM
http://www.nolanchart.com/article3261.html
Another One for Ron Paul
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Ron Paul's delegate count increases by a whopping seven per cent as stealth delegate commits to libertarian cause.
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by Random Outlier
(Libertarian)
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums, another GOP convention delegate committed to Ron Paul lurks.
Your obedient and faithful servant has just heard from a lifelong friend, a veteran political staffer and activist devoted since the dark ages of Nixon to transforming the Republican Party into a tool for the advance of liberty.
He reports to me that by a strange set of circumstances he has been named a 2008 delegate. His selection results from his association with a GOP unit years ago.
Despite the hideous expense of five days in the Twin Cities, he has accepted. Not even the prospect of rubbing elbows et al. with ten thousand Republican women, they of the iron corsets and varnished hair, dissuades him.
This guy is okay, even though he read his Cervantes at an age too impressionable and is known to annoy companions with frequent outbursts of "The Impossible Dream."
Jack Jones he isn't, but he's a truthful man, and I, his amanuensis for the present purpose, swear to the truth of this reporting, except for his real identity which I am sworn to protect. Readability requires a nom de guerre here, and I suppose Reardon is as appropriate as any.
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"My first reaction (Reardon writes) was amazement. I assumed my contributions to this outfit were long forgotten, and, in any case, too modest to justify anything like this opportunity.
"But I accepted, even knowing the brutal tyranny of Chase Manhattan, the thieves who grant me use of plastic, and the Minnesota merchants singlemindedly pursuing the goal of bankrupting me in five short September days. I did it for one reason only. To cast a convention ballot for Ron Paul.
"This will not be my first national convention, though I attended the others as either a staff person or as a reporter. I'd assumed and perhaps even hoped that I would never attend another. Aside from the expense, I generally tend to avoid groups of more than fifty thousand persons.
"But anything for Dr. Paul, even though as a committed libertarian capitalist I wonder what the good congressman will do for me in return for increasing his pledged delegate strength by a whopping seven-point-one per cent.
"I ask for nothing strictly personal, and I would be content if the Ron Paul campaign rewarded me with a small but professional presence. A headquarters. A hospitality suite even if it must include a cash bar. An event or two at which we lonesome Paulites might mingle with others. Surely among the fifteen of us there are one or two with enough personal charm to persuade a few others to abandon the lesser-of-evils approach.
"If Paul forces kiss off the St. Paul affair with a desultory effort, if they attend mopingly resentful that the process has done them wrong, it will validate the position of our detractors. They will be correct in viewing us as a mob of wild-eyed utopians devoid of any sense of practical politics. That would not be good for the future of the movement.
"And it would piss me off."
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Thus spoke my friend Reardon.
It set me to wondering if Nolan Chart readers happen to include any of the other fourteen delegates putatively pledged to Dr. Paul, not to mention any Paul staffers who might be assigned to the convention on his behalf.
If so, Nolan Chart might be a good place to get a dialog started. The general question: What, actually, do we DO in St. Paul?
I mean, a guy can spend only so much time hanging around coffee houses where they garnish the six-buck lattes with lutefisk.
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Another One for Ron Paul
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Ron Paul's delegate count increases by a whopping seven per cent as stealth delegate commits to libertarian cause.
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by Random Outlier
(Libertarian)
Sound the trumpets, beat the drums, another GOP convention delegate committed to Ron Paul lurks.
Your obedient and faithful servant has just heard from a lifelong friend, a veteran political staffer and activist devoted since the dark ages of Nixon to transforming the Republican Party into a tool for the advance of liberty.
He reports to me that by a strange set of circumstances he has been named a 2008 delegate. His selection results from his association with a GOP unit years ago.
Despite the hideous expense of five days in the Twin Cities, he has accepted. Not even the prospect of rubbing elbows et al. with ten thousand Republican women, they of the iron corsets and varnished hair, dissuades him.
This guy is okay, even though he read his Cervantes at an age too impressionable and is known to annoy companions with frequent outbursts of "The Impossible Dream."
Jack Jones he isn't, but he's a truthful man, and I, his amanuensis for the present purpose, swear to the truth of this reporting, except for his real identity which I am sworn to protect. Readability requires a nom de guerre here, and I suppose Reardon is as appropriate as any.
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"My first reaction (Reardon writes) was amazement. I assumed my contributions to this outfit were long forgotten, and, in any case, too modest to justify anything like this opportunity.
"But I accepted, even knowing the brutal tyranny of Chase Manhattan, the thieves who grant me use of plastic, and the Minnesota merchants singlemindedly pursuing the goal of bankrupting me in five short September days. I did it for one reason only. To cast a convention ballot for Ron Paul.
"This will not be my first national convention, though I attended the others as either a staff person or as a reporter. I'd assumed and perhaps even hoped that I would never attend another. Aside from the expense, I generally tend to avoid groups of more than fifty thousand persons.
"But anything for Dr. Paul, even though as a committed libertarian capitalist I wonder what the good congressman will do for me in return for increasing his pledged delegate strength by a whopping seven-point-one per cent.
"I ask for nothing strictly personal, and I would be content if the Ron Paul campaign rewarded me with a small but professional presence. A headquarters. A hospitality suite even if it must include a cash bar. An event or two at which we lonesome Paulites might mingle with others. Surely among the fifteen of us there are one or two with enough personal charm to persuade a few others to abandon the lesser-of-evils approach.
"If Paul forces kiss off the St. Paul affair with a desultory effort, if they attend mopingly resentful that the process has done them wrong, it will validate the position of our detractors. They will be correct in viewing us as a mob of wild-eyed utopians devoid of any sense of practical politics. That would not be good for the future of the movement.
"And it would piss me off."
--------
Thus spoke my friend Reardon.
It set me to wondering if Nolan Chart readers happen to include any of the other fourteen delegates putatively pledged to Dr. Paul, not to mention any Paul staffers who might be assigned to the convention on his behalf.
If so, Nolan Chart might be a good place to get a dialog started. The general question: What, actually, do we DO in St. Paul?
I mean, a guy can spend only so much time hanging around coffee houses where they garnish the six-buck lattes with lutefisk.
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