I was walking down the hall at the XCel Center a couple of hours ago, and who should I see on TV but Bill Kauffman, the front-porch radical himself, addressing the Ron Paul rally across the river. I caught the last 10 minutes of his speech, and from a traditionalist conservative pont of view, it was better than anything likely to be said here at the GOP Convention. He spoke with great passion about localism, and tradition, and against the war. C-SPAN2 broadcast it. If anybody can find a transcript or (even better) a link to video of the speech, put it in the comboxes and I'll move it up here to the main body.
Bill Kauffman kills at Ron Paul rally
Tuesday September 2, 2008
Categories: Conservatism
Filed Under: Bill Kauffman, Ron Paul
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Here's all 4 hours and 46 minutes, from the C-SPAN archive:
tinyurl.com/696puz
As for finding the Kauffman speech in there, good luck.
Don't worry, Rod. The entire Campaign for Liberty rally will likely be on Youtube in the not too distant future (say, 6 hours or so). In any case, it's being broadcast live over the internet on at least three different websites.
Bill Kaufmann comes on sometime around 2:04 in the video linked to by Scott Lahti.
Did you stay in front of the TV for John McManus, the Bircher who spoke to the Paul folks after Kaufmann? If so, what did he have to say?
pt 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6Dc40FC2LU
pt 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyjLwJPTdaw
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