Ron Paul's Convention

Forget the DNC. Forget the GOP. Here is the REAL convention!

Ronin', Ronin', Ronin, keep them convoys comin'
Reality ain't got nothin'!
Paul on!!!
*sung to the tune of Rawhide*

"No matter how many times we're slapped in the face with 'reality' or 'facts' or 'history' we shall keep going!"

I'd love it if we could get a live report from someone seeing them.

Well, Ron Paul is aware of what he represents. But yeah, his supporters...

I could go look, but I'd really rather avoid them.

You could wear a haz-mat suit to keep the stupid off.

Just to be fair

"The Founding Fathers envisioned a robustly Christian yet religiously tolerant America, with churches serving as vital institutions that would eclipse the state in importance." -Ron Paul

"As the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion;

" John Adams, Article 11 of the Treaty of Tripoli (spoilered bit included for context)

Rambling below:

Ron Paul's perception of reality is a bit skewed. Sometimes he's right. Often he's wrong. But he's certainly not alone in any of his views, so he can't exactly be called crazy. Just... well, wrong.

It would be entertaining to sit in the stands and watch it all unfold; perhaps with John Madden doing the play by play. Very funny these devotees...

"See now he's gonna need to get to the center of the stage, near that podium, because that's where the microphone is. Without that microphone, there's no way everyone's going to hear him."
"Thanks John."

I'd like to make a joke about him not needing one because there are only a couple people there, but we all know that's wish-thinking.

Can't seem to find anything about him and divorce. I'll suspend my belief on that one until I see otherwise, I don't think even an anti-choice "individualist" like Ron Paul would go that far.

Don't know how I missed this earlier:

Here's the Constitution. Press Control F, type in "god" and see what happens. I thought he was supposed to know this thing.

Most of the founding fathers were deists - that is, they believed that some creative force exists but would not intervene or even necessarily care about or be aware of the events of reality. The Declaration of Independence is written to coincide with that. That's why it says, "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God" rather than just "God", or "Jesus Christ", or "Allah", or "Zeus". It's intentionally vague, even invoking an air of Spinoza's pantheism.

A little more research and you'll find that all of the big name founding fathers, even the ones who were Christians, rabidly supported the separation of church and state.

James Madison in a private letter:

So keep on dreaming, Ron.

What pisses me off about him is that he promotes such things as "states' rights" and "limited government" not to protect individual liberties, but to limit them. Yet it seems many of his followers don't look past the surface to what he really says.

I'm a bit disappointed that the Independence Party of Minnesota had this on their calendar. Something about "shared basic principles." True; the MNIP and Ron Paul share a certain underlying philosophy. Superficially. But in practice they couldn't be farther apart.

Sounds like a combination political rally and cosplay party.

Yeah . . . lets take those folks seriously. They haz seryus izzuez!

Damn, I misspelled the edit I made

I don't get the Guy Fawkes thing. Don't people know he was a religious terrorist? The King was Protestant, Fawkes was Catholic, that's why he did it. He wasn't some freedom fighter or anarchist. Just a crazy asshole.

Oh wait. A crazy religious asshole that people completely mislabel as a freedom fighter. Nevermind, I get why you'd wear that at a Ron Paul convention.

Oh I get that, I just don't know why Alan Moore (the creator) chose to have V wearing a Guy Fawkes mask. V is supposed to stand for anarchy, Guy Fawkes wanted a theocracy... very much NOT based on freedom.

But trying to figure out Alan Moore is an exercise in frustration. The guy wrote a series of porn comics that has Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz in multiple orgies.