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If there's any place where Rep. Ron Paul's get-the-government-off-of-our-backs message should find receptive ears, it's New Hampshire. Residents enjoy no general state income tax, no state sales tax, a legal shield from eminent domain abuses, and strong protections for firearm owners. The state was even chosen by members of the Free State Project as a destination for liberty-minded families and activists seeking reform at the state level.
Paul won a fifth-place 10 percent of the vote in last week's Iowa caucuses, and could receive a third-place 14 percent in New Hampshire, according to a Rasmussen tracking poll released Saturday.
But his exclusion from Sunday's Fox News debate in Manchester, N.H., probably won't help much. (The New Hampshire Republican Party unceremoniously withdrew its sponsorship from the debate over the weekend after Fox refused to change its mind.)
Fox News' exclusion led Boyapati and more than 100 so-called Paulistas to stage a boisterous protest in downtown Manchester through most of the late afternoon and evening on Sunday--one sign read "Fox News: Unfair Unbalanced," and another said "Freedom is Sexy." Meanwhile, Paul held a forum for undecided voters, and is scheduled to appear on NBC's Tonight Show on Monday evening.
Boyapati's contribution to the protest was to activate his network of Operation Live Free or Die volunteers. The distributed nature of the organization means that he alerts each "house captain," who in turn passes the word along to people staying in that house through e-mail, phone calls, and text messaging.
Instead of bankrolling this effort himself, which would likely run afoul of campaign contribution laws, Boyapati created a political action committee that's attracted some $50,000 in contributions, he said. It's an unlikely outcome for someone who had planned to pursue a PhD in computer science at Carnegie Mellon and had, as an undergraduate at Australian National University, appeared in a conference proceeding published in Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence.
At Google, he worked on machine learning and Google News.
If Paul doesn't win the nomination or general election, many of his supporters will be unfazed. They view the campaign as much about ideas as Paul himself. "This is a beginning of a new movement," says Boyapati, who next plans to head to Nevada before its caucuses on January 19.
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Paul fans. I for one am grateful that Ron Paul's time in the sun is
rapidly approaching an end.
Ron Paul, by contrast, is a smart, principled guy who believes in freedom and I happen to think he would make a great president.
Let's see how many people in New Hampshire agree with me before we stick a fork in the Ron Paul Campaign. He did pull 10 percent in Iowa - winning Jefferson County outright. I'll bet he does much better in New Hampshire.
Notice that more republicans than Democrats voted for Barak
Housein Obama in Iowa. Obama wins big among those with the
biggest incomes.
Obviously, the republicans are bogus voting for Obama. There's
young republicans in them thar hordes.
Notice that more Democrats than republicans voted for Hillary
Rodham Clinton in Iowa. If you just count Democrats, Hillary
won Iowa going away.
If you want to see a funny satire on the president, the mainstream media, and the
president, watch this YouTube music video. It features horror movie veteran, Reggie Bannister (Phantasm, Wishmaster, Bubba Ho-tep) as the
President of the U.S. facing a crisis ("zombie terrorist attack"). It's an excerpt from the new international award-winning zombie rock
musical feature film, "Song of the Dead." The filmmaker, Chip Gubera,
is giving a share of his revenue from DVD sales to the Ron Paul campaign. Go to:
Ron Paul is taking over both the real world and the virtual world. That's because he's the only presidential candidate in perhaps the
last 100 years to bring honest, integrity, and authenticity to the
presidential race. Go to:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=qQmkkoxSKYw" target="_newWindow">http://youtube.com/watch?v=qQmkkoxSKYw</a>
Thanks for your hard work Googlers!
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://ronpaulalaska.com" target="_newWindow">http://ronpaulalaska.com</a>
Seriously. We're only 1 out of 2 states where you don't need a permit to carry... anything.
He tells us that each man , woman and child in America owes $175,000 to the National Debt on top of all their other debts.
Bloomberg TV interviewed Dr Paul today motivated by ;Chinese Yuan, Canadian Dollar, Eurodollar --- all crushing Americas' currency... $880 pr. oz. gold,$100 pr. barrel crude oil and the housing slide.
Dr. Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate that has written book on economics.
When you are out on the street, look to your right and the to your left and ask yourself; "Are they reliable to repay their fair share {$175,000} of the national debt or will me and my family have to do it for them ?"
Thank you Mr. Boyapati and Dr. Paul for trying to do something about it before the House of Saud and the Red Chinese forclose on the national debt.
We can't afford Clinton, Obama, Mc Cain or Romney or the upkeep of the American Empire.
He tells us that each man , woman and child in America owes $175,000 to the National Debt on top of all their other debts.
Bloomberg TV interviewed Dr Paul today motivated by ;Chinese Yuan, Canadian Dollar, Eurodollar --- all crushing Americas' currency... $880 pr. oz. gold,$100 pr. barrel crude oil and the housing slide.
Dr. Ron Paul is the only Presidential candidate that has written book on economics.
When you are out on the street, look to your right and the to your left and ask yourself; "Are they reliable to repay their fair share {$175,000} of the national debt or will me and my family have to do it for them ?"
Thank you Mr. Boyapati and Dr. Paul for trying to do something about it before the House of Saud and the Red Chinese forclose on the national debt.
We can't afford Clinton, Obama, Mc Cain or Romney or the upkeep of the American Empire.
homophobe. Strong language- but that's *not* a flame. It's a
factual description of what The New Republic reported yesterday:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-" target="_newWindow">http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=e2f15397-a3c7-</a>
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Commentary here:
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016567.php" target="_newWindow">http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016567.php</a>
"It's been more than 14 hours since I posted about the TNR
story, and so far ... [no response]. I really expected to find
scores of outraged commentary in the Disqus moderation queue
when I woke up this morning, but so far, it's been as quiet as a
church mouse."
"The results from Iowa and New Hampshire may have finally
broken the spell. Paul's supporters had insisted that the
Revolution would launch from Iowa and New Hampshire, but
Paul only won marginal support. Even in Iowa, where he ran only
against Mitt Romney and Fred Thompson -- and where his
libertarianism should have won significant traction -- his
campaigning left him without a single delegate to the
convention."
"The Revolution turned out to be a dud. Even the writers at
Reason now wonder what kind of crypto policy Paul may have
been hiding, and Andrew Sullivan has (rather bravely) called out
Paul for his association with the vile rhetoric published for over
seventeen years under his own name."
"The green curtain has been pulled back, I think, and rational
minds have taken control. The comment sections will never be
the same."
So socialism is safe for the weak minded for a little while longer. Enjoy!