Ron Paul - Nice Guy, Poor Candidate

[ritehook]

Ran fourth in the just concluded W Va caucuses.

With a lot more money than other recent 3rd party candidates (like Buchnan and Nader) he didn't do nearly as well.

Paul needed to stick to viceral issues, like the war and illegal immigration. Instead, he prattled on too much about things like the Federal Reserve - I may agree with him on that private bank and the big profits they make, but it isn't an issue that engages people where they live.

I saw only one half of one GOP debate, but in it Paul had a chance to ask another candidate a question. He asked McCain about some obscure stuff only a policy wonk would be interested it. Instead of asking him why he supported Amnesty or voted against tax cuts or why he thinks the US will be in Iraq for a hundred years.

Paul dropped the ball.

[brock]

Ross Perot wanna be

[Willie Bee]

In his defense, he's had those who really run the GOP working against him from the start. Still, he hasn't done a good enough job getting his message out, even here in his home state.

[BrentCrude]

Jesus was a nice guy but he wasn't a good talker and was shabby.

We need an Edwards,Romney,Gore,Clinton with good hair and a robotic programmed voice in office.You know,a plastic banana,phoney bologna mindless game show host in office that tells all the brainstem public educated morons what they want to hear.

We don't need any of those to the point,drab,honest and truthful types like Ron Paul or Jesus telling people that we are in trouble and that if drastic changes aren't made we will end up doomed.

[RageWizard]

In his defense, he's had those who really run the GOP working against him from the start. Still, he hasn't done a good enough job getting his message out, even here in his home state.

I agree he is going on a steep uphill battle even with his own party. I still think he would be the best one of the bunch. He needs to polish his game a little for next time.

[old threads]

I have been working new gas projects in Ft. Worth for the last two years and there are a lot of people in that area that do not know he is from Texas.

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I have been working new gas projects in Ft. Worth for the last two years and there are a lot of people in that area that do not know he is from Texas.

Off topic, but Pecos got my attention. Something like 7 years ago I was driving West to East on I-10 (I think it was) at night, around 10 PM. Had a lot of stuff in the car, but everything legal.

Just west of Pecos I was pulled over by the red Hway Patrol car. I asked him right away what the problem was, I knew I wasn't speeding.

"Your rear driver licence plate is out." He shined a flashlite into the car as he checked out out my California driver's licence. (Calif lic plates too).

I was waiting for his to come up that full of it old cop line, "Mind if I take a look?" I knew from a feature story I once did that this casual question is the way for the cops to get you to give up your Constitutional right against unreasonable search and seizure. And a cop's mere suspicion is definitely unreasonable, so the courts have held.

I was going to tell him no, that I have a lot of stuff in the car, but all legal. But he didn't pop the question.

He seemed pretty friendly and told me I could go. after giving me a warning notice re the mickey mouse "problem" wth the light. I asked him what the real deal there was. "This is a major drug smuggling corridor between Mexico and the East Coast of the U.S. We're alert to it."

OK. So I pull out back on the freeway and not five mintues later another freakin' Hway Patrol car flashes his red light -same old same old.

I show him the "get light fixed" ticket, and he, less friendly, really gloms into the car. And stares for maybe five mintues at my insurance card - it was issued by an American company for people, US or Mexican, who were living in Mexico. Perfectly legal.

A real asshole. He told me to pull off the freeway in Pecos and get the light fixed in the morning at a shop there. Yeah, right. I did pull off in Pecos and grabbed a motel, but got out of town next morning, without even gettin' gas.

I didn't want to stick around. Hangin' Judge Roy Bean may have showed up next morning, ready to throw the book and the rope at me for having a burned out licence plate light.

Don't want to pass by your town with Calif plates late at night. But I once did, on NY Eve, have a great experience in a tiny burg called Kent, Texas, when my car's fuel pump conked out in the friggin Apache mountains, dark as pitch,cold as hell, and the cars whizzin by without a look at the poor sap parked on the shoulder.

But that's another story.