bobbyw24
04-12-2010, 04:29 AM
NEW ORLEANS – Rep. Ron Paul’s supporters were in the grand ballroom early Saturday, lightly heckling Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour during his speech for omitting the libertarian congressman from his list of Republican leaders. Barbour quickly added Paul’s name.
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But that was nothing compared to the divided reaction when Paul himself took the stage Saturday afternoon at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here in the Big Easy. Paul began by challenging the conventional wisdom among Republicans concerning congressional earmarks, then took on the common assertion heard throughout the weekend that President Obama is a ’socialist.’
With a somewhat professorial tone, Paul said that, in the technical sense, the president is no such thing.
“What he is, is a corporatist,” Paul said. “And, unfortunately, we have corporatists in the Republican party. And that means you take care of corporations, and corporations take over and run the country. We see it in the financial institutions, we see it in the military-industrial complex, and now we see it in the medical-industrial complex.”
Isolated boos mixed with supporters’ cheers upon these remarks, but as Paul continued, it became apparent that many in the audience were objecting not to Paul’s list of big-government villains, but rather to the congressman himself.
One man wearing Mike Huckabee apparel repeatedly booed Paul throughout the first part of the speech, ultimately resorting to the chant “Ron Paul sucks!” as he discussed foreign policy. SRLC staffers walked the man to the back of the ballroom and silenced him.
When asked by the Daily Caller after the speech how he would reply to the hecklers, Paul said the opposition is nothing new.
“I have been saying the same thing for 35 years, really since 1971, when I recognized that we were going to destroy the economic system,” Paul said. “But I hear more cheers when I talk about the freedom philosophy, individual liberty, personal choice, bringing our troops home, and sound money. So, if one or two or three or four boo because they don’t want to disrupt the status quo and still think they can change the world, or change our party, or change this country, I don’t deal with that too much, because I just think they’re mistaken,” he said. “And I try to persuade them differently.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/12/ron-paul-received-boisterous-reception-says-this-medical-thing-will-be-reversed/#ixzz0ksf5RFwN
http://dailycaller.firenetworks.com/001646/dailycaller.com/wp-content/uploads/ron_paul_cpac-300x175.jpg
But that was nothing compared to the divided reaction when Paul himself took the stage Saturday afternoon at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference here in the Big Easy. Paul began by challenging the conventional wisdom among Republicans concerning congressional earmarks, then took on the common assertion heard throughout the weekend that President Obama is a ’socialist.’
With a somewhat professorial tone, Paul said that, in the technical sense, the president is no such thing.
“What he is, is a corporatist,” Paul said. “And, unfortunately, we have corporatists in the Republican party. And that means you take care of corporations, and corporations take over and run the country. We see it in the financial institutions, we see it in the military-industrial complex, and now we see it in the medical-industrial complex.”
Isolated boos mixed with supporters’ cheers upon these remarks, but as Paul continued, it became apparent that many in the audience were objecting not to Paul’s list of big-government villains, but rather to the congressman himself.
One man wearing Mike Huckabee apparel repeatedly booed Paul throughout the first part of the speech, ultimately resorting to the chant “Ron Paul sucks!” as he discussed foreign policy. SRLC staffers walked the man to the back of the ballroom and silenced him.
When asked by the Daily Caller after the speech how he would reply to the hecklers, Paul said the opposition is nothing new.
“I have been saying the same thing for 35 years, really since 1971, when I recognized that we were going to destroy the economic system,” Paul said. “But I hear more cheers when I talk about the freedom philosophy, individual liberty, personal choice, bringing our troops home, and sound money. So, if one or two or three or four boo because they don’t want to disrupt the status quo and still think they can change the world, or change our party, or change this country, I don’t deal with that too much, because I just think they’re mistaken,” he said. “And I try to persuade them differently.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/04/12/ron-paul-received-boisterous-reception-says-this-medical-thing-will-be-reversed/#ixzz0ksf5RFwN