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Saint Ron Paul? At Least According to Remaining Supporters…

posted by Donna Freitas | 10:15am Tuesday May 27, 2008

ronpaulpicforic.jpgJohn McCain may have sealed the Republican nomination, but apparently libertarian Ron Paul’s supporters are not only hanging on, they are approaching his continued campaign with all the fervor of religious zealots, according to a New York Times Sunday Styles section article, “It’s Not a Campaign, It’s a Mission,” by Alex Williams.
From missionaries to young apostles, Williams evokes just about every synonym for “religious follower” in the book as he details the activities of this holdout, hold-on group of Ron Paul supporters, who think of Mr. Paul as a “political saint” of sorts. On true-believer even describes Paul as “a hero on the level of a Gandhi.”


Some supporters Williams spoke to compared themselves to evangelists, and “talked about their beliefs in spiritual terms, using phrases like ‘seeing the light,’” writes Williams. “Those who follow ‘the movement’ are termed ‘awake.’ The fact that their candidate has essentially zero chance to be president did not seem to faze them.”



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posted December 10, 2008 at 6:24 am


It is not about his saint hood, but about the fact he knows what the this country was founded on!
The current state of United States is but a faint echo of what the country original stood for.
This country is for the free! Not for the power hungry democrats/republicans that fight for more power and control of the people who are suppose to be running this country!
Ron Paul is a libertarian that ran under the republican ticket. (libertarians are usually left off the ballot , we are usually unable to gain the funding that democrats/republicans get from the businesses that support them , and later gain favor.)
The government is not met to dictate our life’s or to dictate how we conduct trade. This is a ‘FREE COUNTRY’ that was taken over by dictators and monarchs.
All this has done is weaken United States. This country once the strongest has faded away into nothing but a ghost of what it once was.
If our founding fathers were to see the state of this country they would roll over in their graves!
Obama … Change? HA! He is just another democrat which will accomplish nothing. He will stay with what is known to fail and continue to follow the same pattern that has been running this country into the ground.
I hope while he was doing his research into the founding fathers he read how they knew that a federal reserve would destroy this country… maybe he will read about the Boston tea party?
Or even maybe, just maybe he will read about the failed prohibition of alcohol and how it caused crime and dept in this country!
But likely he will just continue to serve those of power and only attempt to make no ripples.



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