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Is this how some candidates are claiming to have “vast grassroots support”: by purchasing the services of commercialized keyboard commandos?

It does kinda make sense, I suppose. I mean, there is at least one “front-runner” candidate for President who hasn’t filed the official paperwork, and this could be why that hasn’t happened yet. Because while he’s an undeclared candidate, he can spend money on whatever and not have to report it. After he becomes an official candidate, if it turned out that he was paying a firm to hire “professional bloggers” to set up bogus blogs and otherwise shill for him across the Internet without it being legitimate “grassroots” at all, then there would become something of a public image issue.

When Fala jumped up on Franklin Roosevelt’s lap and started yapping into the microphone during FDR’s “fireside chat” that time, Americans knew it was unrehearsed and sincere. When Nixon ...

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This is the “unabashed conservative” with the “great conservative record” that is supposed to be the only legitimate candidate for President?

(I’m not going to say here who exactly described Fred Thompson as that, only that the person in question is, well… the biggest sell-out and loon that I’ve ever seen on the Internet.)

From ABC News…

Fred Thompson, a likely Republican presidential candidate, on Tuesday defended his work as a Washington lobbyist, telling The Associated Press that lobbying is an important part of life because “government’s got their hands in everything.”

This is precisely the reason why a lot of us aren’t being fooled into supporting Fred Thompson and are instead backing Ron Paul for President: because government really does have its hands in everything. Paul has a record for doing his best to remedy that situation. Fred Thompson just rolls over and lets it happen (and makes ...

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Fred Thompson is supposed to officially announce he’s running for President next week. Right now he’s the darling of the Republican head honchos, and of a mainstream press that, as I have noted many times on this blog, is too lazy and more interested in maintaining the status quo than doing anything that might jeopardize that. And if you were to listen to them, you would believe that there is this “massive groundswell” of support for Fred Thompson out in the public.

Okay well…

Credit denvervoipguru on the Ron Paul Forums for finding this. It’s the current number of people using the website Meetup to “meet up” and coordinate activities promoting their favorite candidates.

Here are Fred Thompson’s “meetups”:

And here are Ron Paul’s “meetups”:

Fred Thompson has 72 Members. Ron Paul has 14,673. Fred Thompson has 5 cities represented on Meetup… whereas Ron Paul has 323. There ...

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So Saturday night I saw 300 again, this time in Raleigh with my friend Chad. And I think that of all the movies that I have seen so far this year, 300 is easily my favorite, and the best overall in my opinion. I just found out that it’s coming out on DVD next month, too!

If you haven’t seen 300 yet, remember how riled-up a lot of us got when Braveheart came out? 300 is that kind of blood-stirring good. This is exactly the kind of story we need for the time we live in. And YouTube user BoruJudasDedrich feels the same way, too…

Here’s the video that he put together, comparing what’s going on regarding presidential candidate Ron Paul with Leonidas and the Spartans in 300. I found myself thinking much the same on Saturday night when we were watching this… but I really doubt that ...

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It’s late. I’ve been working on this video since yesterday afternoon. Had some weird encoding problems. But the first “political advertisement” I’ve made in support of Ron Paul for President is all finished now, and uploaded to YouTube for your viewing pleasure. I call it “Sick and Tired and Needing a Doctor” …

This is like the third or fourth production I’ve done lately that involves me being shown with a toilet: parse that as you will. But all the same, I think this turned out rather nice. What do you think? 🙂

Okay, this is a good enough post to close out the week with. I’m going to take a break from blogging for the next few days. Have a great weekend y’all!

EDIT 11:47 a.m. EST: The video has been posted on Daily Paul! After this update I really am stepping away from the ‘puter for a ...

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Once upon a time, I was a “dittohead”. I discovered Rush Limbaugh not long out of high school: first from his syndicated TV show and then his radio show (which I listened to religiously). I read his books, I phoned and faxed my reps whenever he said we needed to make our voices heard… heck I was even a caller on his show one day in December 1993.

Thank the Lord that I came to my senses.

I still have my copies of The Way Things Ought To Be and See, I Told You So, along with other relics from the strange days of my youth. Back when I couldn’t see past the two-party fraud. By the time The Matrix came out in ’99 I had already taken the proverbial Red Pill and started seeing the way things really are in this world. Like, how people like Limbaugh aren’t ...

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He’s right.

The biggest attacks against Dr. Paul for his comments on terrorism and 9/11 are coming mostly from those who proudly call themselves “neoconservatives”: the ones who can’t get enough of American intervention in the rest of the world. And that’s what has invited so much hatred against America to begin with. I defy anyone to tell me that there hasn’t been a correlation between our trying to be the world’s policeman, and anti-American sentiment.

As for Rudy Giuliani’s tantrum: to me it seemed more like an act of desperation than something of solid principle. So he took what Paul said out of context and tried to spin it to make Paul look like a “kook”.

But I’ve no problem with what Ron Paul said last night. It was an honest and intelligent answer. What else are we supposed to want out of a potential future President?...

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Something I’m not seeing talked about much during the past week or so, especially in light of the intense popularity – online and elsewhere – that Ron Paul seems to be enjoying following last week’s GOP presidential candidates debate.

There seems to be a massive disconnect between what the mainstream press sees and is reporting, and the apparent support that Paul is getting as gauged from “alternative” outlets. F’rinstance, right now Paul has more people subscribed to his YouTube channel than any other Republican candidate. And as of this writing, “ron paul for president” entered into a Google search yields 162,000 results… compared to 75,400 for mainstream press-projected “frontrunner” Rudolph Giuliani.

And yet, the “traditional” media persists in largely ignoring Ron Paul, because he’s not “polling high enough” compared go Guiliani, Romney, and a few others.

There’s something horribly, horribly wrong with the mainstream media’s perspective…

The only “scientific” polling ...

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