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Keith Olbermann	Posted - 2007.11.02 01:55:00 - [1] Edited by: Keith Olbermann on 02/11/2007 01:58:16 It sometimes seems as if someone is playing a cruel practical joke on Ron Paul. He goes to a college and delivers the same speech he's given for the past 30 years of his political career, the one espousing the Austrian school of economics. Only now the audience is packed with hundreds of kids in RON PAUL REVOLUTION T-shirts who go nuts - giving standing ovations when he drones on about getting rid of the Federal Reserve and returning to the gold standard. After a speech at Iowa State last month, when nearly half the crowd had to stand because there were only 400 seats, a hipster-looking student worked his way through the half-hour-long line to shake Paul's hand. This was surely it - the moment when the straight faces would break and Paul would be wedgied up the flagpole. "When you see Bernanke," the kid said, "will you tell him to stop cutting rates when gold hits 1,000?" Politics might be rock 'n' roll for nerds, but the nerds aren't supposed to be quite this nerdy. The leader of the disaffected in next year's presidential election - the Howard Dean, the Ross Perot, the Pat Buchanan - is a kindly great-grandfather and obstetrician whose passion is monetary policy. Paul, a 72-year-old hard-core libertarian Republican Congressman who is against foreign intervention, subsidies and the federal income tax, is not only drawing impressive crowds (more than 2,000 at a post-debate rally at the University of Michigan last month) but also raising tons of cash. In the third quarter of 2007, Paul took in $5.3 million (just slightly less than G.O.P. rival John McCain), mostly in small, individual donations. On Oct. 22, he aired his first TV ads, $1.1 million worth in New Hampshire. The numbers are even more impressive considering that as of early October, 72% of G.O.P. voters told Gallup pollsters they didn't know enough about Paul to form an opinion. He has been able to attract followers in the debates, where he's presented a clear, simple philosophy of personal freedom and responsibility. He bluntly refers to the U.S. as an empire. And the nerdiness lends Paul's simple message an aura of credibility, especially on a stage with more polished politicians and their nuanced positions. "He's about something that American nerd culture can get on board with: really knowing one subject and going all out on it," says Ben Darrington, a Ron Paul supporter at Yale. "For some people, it's Star Wars. For some people, it's Japanese cartoons. For Ron Paul, it's free-market commodity money." The libertarian's traction is most apparent on the Internet, where his presence far outstrips that of any candidate from either party. His name is the most searched, his YouTube videos the most watched, his campaign the topic of songs by at least 14 bands. "The last thing I would listen to is rap," Paul says. "But there's something going on when there's a rap song about the Fed." On Tuesday, both Paul and Tom Cruise were guests on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The actor went to Paul's dressing room to thank him for his work on a bill fighting the forced mental screening of grade-school kids. "Go. Go. Go. Go hard," Cruise said. Paul turned to an aide and asked, "What movies has he been in?" Paul's fans - and there were more than 100 of them in Leno's audience, many of whom had flown in from out of town - are entranced by a man who responds to surprising information with "Wowee" and a jaw-dropped smile not often seen apart from 5-year-old boys and Muppets. "It's the message. Ron isn't that exciting as himself," says Andre Marrou, who was Paul's running mate when he ran as a Libertarian in 1988. "I saw him referred to in print as semi-eccentric. He's maybe 10% eccentric. It's his ideas that are eccentric. But it's basic Americanism." Paul is such a strict constructionist that he autographs pocket Constitutions more often than Tommy Lee signs *******. But Paul's
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:01:00 - [2] VOTE RON PAUL 2008
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:04:00 - [3] it took me about 5 minutes to post this thread without obvious spelling mistakes. How was your afternooon NO TROLL ZONE
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:06:00 - [4] don't troll me bro
Draygo Korvan Merch Industrial	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:10:00 - [5] tl;dr --
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:13:00 - [6] We must be butter because we are on a roll...or was that Stuart Scott.
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:19:00 - [7] i wish there was a better thread to post in right now
OklahomaCity Gallente Ultrapolite Socialites GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:26:00 - [8] Originally by: Bran Stormer VOTE RON PAUL 2008
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:27:00 - [9] Watch out for the BOMB!
Keith Olbermann	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:31:00 - [10] I see no flag lapel pin though!
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:32:00 - [11] did anybody read this post?
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:33:00 - [12] Originally by: Bran Stormer did anybody read this post? Where am I? WHAT!
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:34:00 - [13] I read the last sentence and posted then I realised that I was actually on topic wth
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:36:00 - [14] wait was this post even about goons lol
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:37:00 - [15] Originally by: Maitsu wait was this post even about goons lol I just got bluffed on a hand. Who are goons?
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:38:00 - [16] Edited by: Bran Stormer on 02/11/2007 02:38:39 what did you have and what did they have? what was the flop
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:40:00 - [17] Originally by: Bran Stormer Edited by: Bran Stormer on 02/11/2007 02:38:39 what did you have and what did they have? what was the flop Seriously, I am playing poker and drinking. It was two hands ago, you can't ask that. Though, I just folded pre-flop with AK off-suit in the small blind to a UTG all-in raiser. I rivered an Ace, he had pocket tens. It was the right fold.
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:41:00 - [18] come on brah im willing u 2 win here
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:42:00 - [19] Originally by: Urikko Originally by: Bran Stormer Edited by: Bran Stormer on 02/11/2007 02:38:39 what did you have and what did they have? what was the flop Seriously, I am playing poker and drinking. It was two hands ago, you can't ask that. Though, I just folded pre-flop with AK off-suit in the small blind to a UTG all-in raiser. I rivered an Ace, he had pocket tens. It was the right fold. Usually when i get a preflop with an AK i change to AP rounds and raise the rims to 37" with a side of french fries.
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:43:00 - [20] this thread is terrible
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:44:00 - [21] Originally by: Maitsu this thread is terrible mlyp
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:45:00 - [22] Originally by: Maitsu this thread is terrible mlyp
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:45:00 - [23] now you know what it is to be owned
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:46:00 - [24] Originally by: Bran Stormer now you know what it is to be owned Did you ever know that you're my hero?
Maitsu GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:48:00 - [25] did you read the op deck, this is a no troll zone
Bran Stormer GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:48:00 - [26] Edited by: Bran Stormer on 02/11/2007 02:48:25 keep posting about poker stop trolling goddamn
BiII O'Reilly	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:50:00 - [27] Hello Keith....
Urikko GoonFleet GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:52:00 - [28] Originally by: Bran Stormer Edited by: Bran Stormer on 02/11/2007 02:48:25 keep posting about poker Sorry, my laptop puked and i lost connection. Still folding, haven't seen ****.
Kartis Was Deep Core Mining Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:53:00 - [29] ...unfortunately Keith Olbermann is a bigger idiot than Ron Paul. Maybe next time you could come up with something original? Cut and paste without attribution is soooo yesterday. the original article ...if you're going to troll the internet for content (a better use of the word troll than today's currency), at least make it interesting. How 'bout this, from the 'vernerable' Wired magazine of all places... Are Ron Paul supporters better or worse than Eve isk farmers?
Oofig VanDoogan The Knighthawks FREGE Alliance	Posted - 2007.11.02 02:55:00 - [30] Originally by: BiII O'Reilly Hello Keith.... Quoting this fail

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