Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
Register for free to join our community of investors and share your ideas. You will also get access to streaming quotes, interactive charts, trades, portfolio, live options flow and more tools.
How does one short a stock that is less than 5 dollars a share? They must have a special broker or something.
Ron Paul was just on MSNBC . Tucker Carlson had him on again. It will be repeated at 6pm eastern time. He was great as usual.
So sorry. Hope this works
www.Iowavotes2008
Ok Thanks.
He was great. I had my hand up too. But why getting rid of UNICEF be low on the list. I tjought he was against the UN> Maybe I heard him wrong. But he still is number 1.
At 10:30 am ET The Colbert Report repeats. That is about 25 minutes from this posting.
My bad. Guess it would help to have the time hes on the show.
Please tune into the Jack Stockwell show, hosted by Dale Williams, on
Thursday, June 14.
Lew Moore, National Campaign Chair for the Ron Paul for President
campaign, will be the featured guest.
You can hear the Jack Stockwell show on AM 630 in Salt Lake or online
at http://www.k- talk.com
10am EST
9 am CST
8 am MST
7 am PST/Arizona
____________ _________
Ron Paul before the Colbert Report.
http://www.youtube.co...
Please tune into the Jack Stockwell show, hosted by Dale Williams, on
Thursday, June 14.
Lew Moore, National Campaign Chair for the Ron Paul for President
campaign, will be the featured guest.
You can hear the Jack Stockwell show on AM 630 in Salt Lake or online
at http://www.k- talk.com
Dr. Paul is scheduled to be on The Colbert Report tonight!! 11:30 EST on comedy central.
Is this temporary here or permanent? By the way check the LA Times poll. People are misreading it and think Dr Paul is behind Mccain. He actually is second behind Tencredo.
I'll agree 100 percent with that. The Republicans don't really seem to stand for anything anymore.
Where ya been Dallas? Have you stopped pumping this? This will be sub pennies shortly. Your probably doing a pump & dump on some other garbage stock now.
Razor first thing: Would you call Switzerland isolationists? I hardly would. They have no bases anywhere. Start no wars with anyone. Despite everyone around them on one side or another in WW1 and 2 they weren't involved in neither. They still have trade & relations with other countries. There standard of living per capita is higher than this country. Why do we have to stick our nose everywhere. By the way you don't see anyone running planes into Switzerland's buidings either.
First I'm way over 33 and voting for Dr Paul. Next you have this site and hundreds of other sites for Ron Paul. The numbers add up fast. Also went to my first meet up Saturday. Don't want to give away the details but lots of things are going on.
Ron Paul on C-SPAN tonight (6-10) between 6:30-8:00 ET
C-SPAN1 will be airing their video coverage of Dr. Paul's radio interview with New Hampshire Public Radio that was done during the daytime just before the NH CNN debates on 6-5-07.
I haven't read everything on this site. It is a good one. The debt clock is wayyyyyyyyyy off. The total debt when you include social security & medicare debts makes it closer to 56 trillion dollars. If I'm repeating something so very sorry.
Bill Moyers interviewing Ron Paul about the war.
Part One: http://www.youtube.co...
Part Two: http://www.youtube.co...
There is a movie out Freedom to facism. Ron Paul is in in discussing the Federal reserve, annd other important matters. This is a petition to do away with the Federal Reserve.
Hi,
I wanted to draw your attention to this important petition that I
recently signed:
"Shut Down The Federal Reserve: Save America!"
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/AFTF_P_1?e
I really think this is an important cause, and I'd like to encourage
you to add your signature, too. It's free and takes less than a minute of
your time.
Thanks!
Get involved with the campaign. Join meet up groups. Went to my first one today. Planning several things down the road. I know a lot of you are doing different things and thats great. But this is for those of you that aren't. The only way to get Ron Paul is to work at it and get 1 step ahead of everyone else.
Have a great weekend.
Ron Paul now has an Internet TV station!
http://www.ronpauln ation.com/ tv.html
As Gordon predicted might happen, the second round didn't produce a "winner" either. So we need a third round. This time, it will be a little simpler:
1. Feel free to forward this email (describing the poll) to anyone you want to.
2. Votes must be posted to johnroller@faithbiblechristian.com before 11:59 p.m. (Eastern Time) on June 14, 2007.
3. Results will be sent to all who participated.
4. Every email address gets one vote.
5. There are NO "write-ins" -- only a vote for a candidate from the following list (those who received MORE THAN TWO VOTES in the second round) will be counted:
Sam Brownback
Jeb Bush
Rudy Giuliani
Ron Paul
Fred Thompson
If they had people vote more than once upgrade the system. Or maybe they are in Chicago.
June 7, 2007
The Ron Paul phenomenon?
Rep. Ron Paul answers a question from CNN’s Wolf Blitzer at Tuesday’s GOP debate.
WASHINGTON (CNN) — It’s been an exciting week for us at the Ticker – a few days ago, we opened up the comments section of our blog, and since then, we’ve received thousands of responses.
A large number of the ones we’ve posted so far have been from supporters of White House presidential hopeful Ron Paul, R-Texas.
But come Tuesday night’s GOP debate, we were inundated with Paul comments on our ticker post: “Who won the GOP debate?”
Many of the comments we received were supportive of the Texas congressman, while others registered frustration that the flood of Paul posts impeded the general online discussion, likening them to spam.
One thing is for sure: Ron Paul supporters are effective at coordinating and mobilizing online quickly. For the three GOP debates so far, Paul has won or placed high in most of the unscientific online surveys including ABC’s, MSNBC’s, FOX’s, and unscientific polls conducted on a number of blogs.
Paul virtually swept CNN’s unscientific survey after Tuesday night’s GOP debate: not only did participants say Paul won the debate, but also that he knew the most about the issues, had the best one-liner, had the most surprising performance, and got the biggest boost from the debate. (He wasn’t considered the snappiest dresser, however – see Mitt Romney). The topic is getting some play on conservative blogs, too.
These informal polls are unscientific because supporters can often vote more than once, and are not randomly selected, and while they may be useful indicator of a candidate’s ability to organize online, they are not generally an accurate measure of support across the electorate.
The comments section is intended to be informal, of course, but the strain on resources that night prompted us to take down the “Who won the GOP debate” question (though that didn’t stop Paul supporters from commenting; they started adding comments to the “Who won the Democratic debate?” post). The intention was not to censor Ron Paul supporters — right now, you’ll find hundreds of Paul posts on the site.
Given the volume of submissions, we do not post every comment. That said, we will always try to post as many as possible. We know how frustrating it can be to write something thoughtful and never see it published.
Right now “Ron Paul” is among the top-searched terms on Technorati, the popular site that tracks blog posts. According to the community Web site, Eventful, there are more than 16,000 outstanding “demands” for Paul to appear in cities across the country – that’s up 11,000 from just one week ago, leapfrogging him over Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-New York. Ron Paul video clips get plenty of play on YouTube and there is no shortage of blogs devoted to his support.
What do these numbers mean? How do you reconcile that support with the national poll numbers? In virtually every scientific national poll — generally regarded as the best measurement of public support for a political candidate — Paul registers, at most, between 1 and 2 percent. Do the debate numbers reflect something different than the national polls? Is it too early to tell?
Paul opposes abortion rights, voted to authorize a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexican border, supports withdrawing troops from Iraq, and defines marriage as between a man and a woman. Is he a “true conservative”? If indeed his support is growing, what is it going to take for Paul to break out and challenge the front-runners for the GOP presidential nomination?
We welcome your comments below.
For more breaking political news, check back with www.cnn.com/ticker
– The CNN Political Ticker Team
Ben Affleck will be on Hardball at 5pm. He will be discussing the views of Hollywood and young people concerning the candidates.
Here is the link to submit questions for Ben.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19075036/
And Then They Ignore You Again…
by Eric Phillips
by Eric Phillips
DIGG THIS
Watching the Republican Presidential Debate on CNN was exasperating. I thought it was bad enough when, during the previous debate, the Fox News moderators cut the Paul-Giuliani Exchange short to ask John McCain about the extremely pressing issue of…the Confederate flag flying over the statehouse. It turns out, however, that Wolf Blitzer and Co. are far more concerned with flippant issues than the neocons at Fox News. They made certain to pester the candidates about whether they believed in evolution or not and what the policy should be towards gays in the military, while not even touching on constitutional interpretation, the disgraceful state of the nation’s government schools, the $9 trillion public debt, or the government’s absurd and disastrous attempt to impose a democratic, drug-free, Taliban-free, Tajik-and-Uzbek-dominated Afghanistan on the nation’s impoverished, strict Muslim and largely Pashtun populace.
Nonetheless nine of the candidates still managed to construct an anti-liberty, anti-capitalist message, despite their contentions otherwise. Romney, for example, remains convinced that his compulsory health insurance program for Massachusetts is a free market solution that promotes personal responsibility. He was not all that clear on how the government deciding what’s best for people and then forcing them to do it makes people responsible, though. Giuliani still thinks he’s a free market candidate even though he explicitly endorsed government-run nation building. But McCain, you see, is opposed to overspending. He’d get rid of all those pork-barrel projects that cost taxpayers $29 billion in 2006…out of a budget of over $2 trillion. Maybe he can also enlist the help of fellow candidate Tommy Thompson in reforming that stockpiling program at the Dept. of Health and Human Services that has some inefficiencies. But seriously, to the extent that any of these candidates support the market, they do so to make the state more efficient. As Lew points out, neither the mainstream left nor right believes in true liberty.
Thankfully, Dr. Paul reminded me why I am paying such close attention to this race by using his time on the "Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell" question to argue eloquently for individualism. Homosexuality is not really the issue, Paul replied, because "We don’t get our rights because we’re gays or women or minorities. We get our rights from our creator as individuals. So every individual should be treated the same way." He continued, "If there is homosexual behavior in the military that is disruptive, it should be dealt with. But if there’s heterosexual sexual behavior that is disruptive, it should be dealt with." Paul’s response left the next candidate, Mike Huckabee, stuttering in agreement. Instead of offering vague "pro-life, pro-values" rhetoric, Paul offered a thoughtful philosophical response and a practical application thereof.
Likewise, Paul exposed the absurdity of many of the candidates’ support for "pro-life, whole-life" policies by decrying their calls for preemptive – and possibly nuclear – military action against Iran. "We have in the past," he contended,
Always declared war in the defense of our liberties or go to aid of somebody. But now we have accepted the principle of preemptive war – we have rejected the Just War theory of Christianity. We have to come to our senses about this issue of war and preemption and go back to traditions and our constitution and defend our liberties and defend our rights.
Indeed, deep respect for and love of life does not go well with support for preemptive war, acceptance of "collateral damage," and openness to the idea of deploying tactical nuclear weapons.
Unfortunately, there were no outbursts this time that will help garner more mainstream media attention for the campaign. Il Duce did demand to know how anyone expected to fight the war on terrorism without invading Iraq (maybe by dealing with the people who actually attacked us? Just a thought), but was very reserved in dealing with Paul – perhaps intentionally. When Blitzer asked for Giuliani’s response to Paul’s interpretation of the United States’ current wars, he declined to call the Doctor’s assertions absurd or to demand a retraction. He simply declared that he was going to offer a different view. Indeed, the entire debate seems to have been formatted to allow Rudy McRomney a virtual monologue at the expense of the lesser-known candidates. I think I’m going to have to modify Gandhi’s famous quote that I referenced in my previous article. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then they realize that ignoring you worked best so they go back to that.
June 7, 2007
Eric Phillips [send him mail] is a disaffected inhabitant of Washington, DC who studies history and economics at George Washington University.
Email - Tucker@msnbc.com
Phone - 1-877-TCARLSON
.
Tucker treated Ron Paul as if he genuinely had a chance. He didn't refer to him as a "second-tier candidate". Mind you, he didn't say he was a front-runner either. But Tucker has broken from the Mainstream Media's line. He's treating Ron Paul as a viable candidate.
And it takes one to break from the line before others may be willing to do likewise. Let's hope there are some other pundits who will do likewise.
And Tucker, please please bring Ron Paul on on a regular basis!
We should all contact Msnbc and Tucker with similar letters or calls.
Is Drudge the latest to censor Ron Paul? After every other debate Drudge has had a poll. Not this time. Email Drudge at Drudge@Drudgereport.com. I thought Drudge was always a little Libertarian himself. You would think he would want Ron to do well
Is Drudge the latest to censor Ron Paul? After every other debate Drudge has had a poll. Not this time. Email Drudge at Drudge@Drudgereport.com. I thought Drudge was always a little Libertarian himself. You would think he would want Ron to do well.
We need to call in as a group and share who we think won the debate
last night and also CNN coverage of the Debate AND their pulling of the
who won blog page asking people to post comments on who they think won!!!
MAN THE PHONE LINE GUNS, TIME TO BE HEARD!!!!
Call-In Numbers
Support Democrats:
(202) 737-0002
Support Republicans:
(202) 737-0001
Support Independents:
(202) 628-0205
Outside U.S.:
(202) 628-0184
Email:
journal@c-span.org
He is a staunch abortion opponent; he got his first shotgun when he was 9; and he says he loved Paul's plan to eliminate the Education Department.
"I like to think of myself as a Barry Goldwater conservative," he says. "When I think of the 1960s, I think of conservatism. People say, 'Reagan, Reagan, Reagan,' but what about Goldwater? That's why I consider myself a paleo-conservative."
After a two-day honeymoon, New Hampshire Campaign Coordinator Jared Chicoine was back at work for his Republican presidential candidate. (By John Mottern For The Washington Post)
Who's Blogging?
Read what bloggers are saying about this article.
Ron Paul 2008
Eunomia ?? n. the principle of good order
???Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity
YABOSI - America Through A Cracked Lens
Full List of Blogs (8 links) »
Most Blogged About Articles
On washingtonpost.com | On the web
Save & Share Article What's This?
DiggGoogle
del.icio.usYahoo!
RedditFacebook
Says Paul campaign committee chairman Kent Snyder: "If I could find a Jared in each state, we'd be in great shape."
The morning after arriving in Manchester, Chicoine seemed semi-refreshed. He had shaved and put on a tie. Kim Chicoine, who attends a Bible college and was eager to work alongside her husband, had traded her Dartmouth hockey sweat shirt for a smart pink and white blouse.
After helping lead Paul from Manchester to a radio appearance in Concord, Chicoine spent his time pacing in the station's kitchen and making calls. Signs had to be picked up. And volunteers had to be prepped. "It's a family trait," Kim says of Jared's pacing.
Later in the day, it seems Jared Chicoine can see some of the fruits of his labor. At Murphy's Tap Room in Manchester, volunteers have covered the bar with Ron Paul campaign signs and banners for the post-debate party.
T-shirts with "Who Is Ron Paul?" on the front and the Web site address on the back are everywhere.
Being the only staffer doesn't make Chicoine immune from complaints. He catches it from volunteer Dave Mincin, 58, who doesn't think Chicoine is keeping up with his e-mails. "I've heard from a lot of people who haven't heard from you," Mincin says. "You should at least respond by saying 'I'm busy now, but I'll get back to you.' " Chicoine shrugs it off. "That's the reality," he says.
Why all the work for such a long-shot candidate? "I think [Paul's campaign] should refocus conservatives about what it means to be conservative," Chicoine says. "We have to be about more than preemptive warfare."
By the end of the debate, Chicoine is sounding pretty satisfied with Paul's performance.
"He didn't waver," Chicoine says. "He's trying to remind the party of what conservatism used to be. I think he did that tonight."
But a one-man staff's work is never done. The post-debate celebration was the next stop.
Which means for now, the honeymoon can wait.
He is a staunch abortion opponent; he got his first shotgun when he was 9; and he says he loved Paul's plan to eliminate the Education Department.
"I like to think of myself as a Barry Goldwater conservative," he says. "When I think of the 1960s, I think of conservatism. People say, 'Reagan, Reagan, Reagan,' but what about Goldwater? That's why I consider myself a paleo-conservative."
After a two-day honeymoon, New Hampshire Campaign Coordinator Jared Chicoine was back at work for his Republican presidential candidate. (By John Mottern For The Washington Post)
Who's Blogging?
Read what bloggers are saying about this article.
Ron Paul 2008
Eunomia ?? n. the principle of good order
???Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity
YABOSI - America Through A Cracked Lens
Full List of Blogs (8 links) »
Most Blogged About Articles
On washingtonpost.com | On the web
Save & Share Article What's This?
DiggGoogle
del.icio.usYahoo!
RedditFacebook
Says Paul campaign committee chairman Kent Snyder: "If I could find a Jared in each state, we'd be in great shape."
The morning after arriving in Manchester, Chicoine seemed semi-refreshed. He had shaved and put on a tie. Kim Chicoine, who attends a Bible college and was eager to work alongside her husband, had traded her Dartmouth hockey sweat shirt for a smart pink and white blouse.
After helping lead Paul from Manchester to a radio appearance in Concord, Chicoine spent his time pacing in the station's kitchen and making calls. Signs had to be picked up. And volunteers had to be prepped. "It's a family trait," Kim says of Jared's pacing.
Later in the day, it seems Jared Chicoine can see some of the fruits of his labor. At Murphy's Tap Room in Manchester, volunteers have covered the bar with Ron Paul campaign signs and banners for the post-debate party.
T-shirts with "Who Is Ron Paul?" on the front and the Web site address on the back are everywhere.
Being the only staffer doesn't make Chicoine immune from complaints. He catches it from volunteer Dave Mincin, 58, who doesn't think Chicoine is keeping up with his e-mails. "I've heard from a lot of people who haven't heard from you," Mincin says. "You should at least respond by saying 'I'm busy now, but I'll get back to you.' " Chicoine shrugs it off. "That's the reality," he says.
Why all the work for such a long-shot candidate? "I think [Paul's campaign] should refocus conservatives about what it means to be conservative," Chicoine says. "We have to be about more than preemptive warfare."
By the end of the debate, Chicoine is sounding pretty satisfied with Paul's performance.
"He didn't waver," Chicoine says. "He's trying to remind the party of what conservatism used to be. I think he did that tonight."
But a one-man staff's work is never done. The post-debate celebration was the next stop.
Which means for now, the honeymoon can wait.
Ron Paul's One-Man Band in the Granite State
Young Staffer Hopes to Put Candidate on N.H. Map
By Sridhar Pappu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 6, 2007; Page C01
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "Two days was not enough," Jared Chicoine says, standing in the lobby of a Holiday Inn Express on the eve of Tuesday's third Republican presidential debate.
Unshaven and dressed in a blue Ralph Lauren oxford shirt and khakis, Chicoine could easily pass for a hung-over fraternity brother. Instead, the 25-year-old is the non-drinking, nonsmoking New Hampshire campaign coordinator for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.). That makes him the lone paid political operative working in a key state for a Republican presidential candidate whose candor has earned him plenty of buzz of late.
After a two-day honeymoon, New Hampshire Campaign Coordinator Jared Chicoine was back at work for his Republican presidential candidate. (By John Mottern For The Washington Post)
Who's Blogging?
Read what bloggers are saying about this article.
Ron Paul 2008
Eunomia ?? n. the principle of good order
???Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity
YABOSI - America Through A Cracked Lens
Full List of Blogs (8 links) »
Most Blogged About Articles
On washingtonpost.com | On the web
Save & Share Article What's This?
DiggGoogle
del.icio.usYahoo!
RedditFacebook
The presidential debates are the kind of spotlight every candidate relishes, and especially one like libertarian Paul, who isn't exactly considered part of the GOP mainstream.
And Chicoine, with a true-believer's heart, has arrived for these debates fresh from his honeymoon -- all two days of it.
On Saturday, he married 19-year-old Kimberly Sutherland in a Baptist church in Woodsville. After the honeymoon in Jackson, he hotfooted here, his bride in tow. The two had planned the wedding last year, well before Chicoine got involved with the Paul campaign. But when your candidate's got his big political moment and you're his only man in the state, who's got time to worry about honeymoons.
"I just play with it," Chicoine says, fiddling with his wedding ring. "I've had it on for two days and I haven't gotten used to it."
There's a lot he's getting used to -- especially the increased attention on Paul. During the two previous debates, the congressman earned both props and disdain in Republican circles for his criticism of U.S. policy in Iraq. Indeed, it seems like the man once dubbed "Dr. No," for his non-party-line votes, has stepped into his national moment.
"Ron Paul's speaking to people like me," Barbara Hagan, a former New Hampshire state representative and mother of seven, says one recent evening before dinner in the Manchester Radisson. "He's an honorable man. He's a hardworking man. I want my party back. I want my country back, and I want the U.S. out of Iraq."
Paul wants to channel such fervor into political action. That's where Chicoine comes in.
Working from his one-bedroom apartment in northern New Hampshire, Chicoine gets to his computer by 7 a.m., and spends much of his day making calls and sending e-mails. He takes a couple of hours for dinner and a long walk, then he's back working the phones again. "I'm the only guy," Chicoine says. "It's a challenge, but I have to tell you, I'm having a great time. I couldn't see myself working for anyone else in this field."
Something of a political gym rat -- they grow a lot of them in New Hampshire, where politics is a part of the landscape -- Chicoine has been involved in campaigns since graduating from high school in 2000. Last year he took a break to attend Landmark Baptist College in Florida. But that was before he found the small government, anti-tax, anti-interventionist church of Ron Paul.
Chicoine helped to arrange Paul's first trip to the state in February, then officially joined the campaign in April. (He's got a bare-bones operation. Paul's New Hampshire general works without a BlackBerry, keeping his phone numbers instead in a yellow spiral notebook.)
Ron Paul's One-Man Band in the Granite State
Young Staffer Hopes to Put Candidate on N.H. Map
By Sridhar Pappu
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 6, 2007; Page C01
MANCHESTER, N.H. -- "Two days was not enough," Jared Chicoine says, standing in the lobby of a Holiday Inn Express on the eve of Tuesday's third Republican presidential debate.
Unshaven and dressed in a blue Ralph Lauren oxford shirt and khakis, Chicoine could easily pass for a hung-over fraternity brother. Instead, the 25-year-old is the non-drinking, nonsmoking New Hampshire campaign coordinator for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.). That makes him the lone paid political operative working in a key state for a Republican presidential candidate whose candor has earned him plenty of buzz of late.
After a two-day honeymoon, New Hampshire Campaign Coordinator Jared Chicoine was back at work for his Republican presidential candidate. (By John Mottern For The Washington Post)
Who's Blogging?
Read what bloggers are saying about this article.
Ron Paul 2008
Eunomia ?? n. the principle of good order
???Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity
YABOSI - America Through A Cracked Lens
Full List of Blogs (8 links) »
Most Blogged About Articles
On washingtonpost.com | On the web
Save & Share Article What's This?
DiggGoogle
del.icio.usYahoo!
RedditFacebook
The presidential debates are the kind of spotlight every candidate relishes, and especially one like libertarian Paul, who isn't exactly considered part of the GOP mainstream.
And Chicoine, with a true-believer's heart, has arrived for these debates fresh from his honeymoon -- all two days of it.
On Saturday, he married 19-year-old Kimberly Sutherland in a Baptist church in Woodsville. After the honeymoon in Jackson, he hotfooted here, his bride in tow. The two had planned the wedding last year, well before Chicoine got involved with the Paul campaign. But when your candidate's got his big political moment and you're his only man in the state, who's got time to worry about honeymoons.
"I just play with it," Chicoine says, fiddling with his wedding ring. "I've had it on for two days and I haven't gotten used to it."
There's a lot he's getting used to -- especially the increased attention on Paul. During the two previous debates, the congressman earned both props and disdain in Republican circles for his criticism of U.S. policy in Iraq. Indeed, it seems like the man once dubbed "Dr. No," for his non-party-line votes, has stepped into his national moment.
"Ron Paul's speaking to people like me," Barbara Hagan, a former New Hampshire state representative and mother of seven, says one recent evening before dinner in the Manchester Radisson. "He's an honorable man. He's a hardworking man. I want my party back. I want my country back, and I want the U.S. out of Iraq."
Paul wants to channel such fervor into political action. That's where Chicoine comes in.
Working from his one-bedroom apartment in northern New Hampshire, Chicoine gets to his computer by 7 a.m., and spends much of his day making calls and sending e-mails. He takes a couple of hours for dinner and a long walk, then he's back working the phones again. "I'm the only guy," Chicoine says. "It's a challenge, but I have to tell you, I'm having a great time. I couldn't see myself working for anyone else in this field."
Something of a political gym rat -- they grow a lot of them in New Hampshire, where politics is a part of the landscape -- Chicoine has been involved in campaigns since graduating from high school in 2000. Last year he took a break to attend Landmark Baptist College in Florida. But that was before he found the small government, anti-tax, anti-interventionist church of Ron Paul.
Chicoine helped to arrange Paul's first trip to the state in February, then officially joined the campaign in April. (He's got a bare-bones operation. Paul's New Hampshire general works without a BlackBerry, keeping his phone numbers instead in a yellow spiral notebook.)
Can an Internet sensation of a politican become president?
02:39 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
By Lee McGuire / 11 News
Ron Paul hopes his message gains him votes for president. The Republicans running for president took each other to task again Tuesday night. This time, it was in New Hampshire — and if this debate is anything like the last one, then the blogs are buzzing about a little-known Republican from Lake Jackson.
Congressman Ron Paul didn’t do too well the last time he ran for president. In 1988 he got less than one-half of 1 percent of the vote.
But today he is the second-most popular search on the Internet, just behind “YouTube.”
To most presidential candidates, the lunch special at the Baytown Seafood Restaurant serves up a tempting morsel of likely voters.
But to candidate Ron Paul it’s just lunch. Traveling alone with no campaign staff, the entire presidential campaign of this congressman and Lake Jackson obstetrician is built around little more than a message.
“Republicans have dug a hole for themselves and they don’t know what to do,” Paul said.
That hole, he said, is the war in Iraq. His answer is what has fired up his base and cemented opposition to his campaign.
“We end it, our part in it,” Rep. Paul said. “We let them kill each other, we come home, there’s no reason to believe it might get worse. And there’s a whole lot of reason to believe it might get better.”
But what, then, of the argument that pulling out of Iraq would abandon millions of vulnerable people? Leaving them defenseless in a near-certain civil war?
“But we have a moral obligation to take care of Americans, a moral obligation to fight wars that are declared,” Paul said. “A moral obligation to protect our young people from getting involved in a war that we don’t know why we’re there, there won’t be an end point.”
Paul is a fiscal conservative. He’s pro-life. He’d like to put the U.S. dollar back on the gold standard. But this time, his presidential campaign is almost all about the war.
“How am I going to win?” he said. “Only time will tell, and the only thing I could say is we’re way ahead of what I ever dreamed of, and it has to do with what’s going on on the Internet.”
On the Web, Ron Paul is something of a superhero.
People search for his name more than almost anything else.
And look what happened when Fox News asked viewers to rate the candidates after a Republican debate: “In first place, Ron Paul, surprisingly, 30 percent.”
On MSNBC, the same thing: “The highest rated candidate at the moment, Ron Paul at 39 percent, and a mighty roar has just gone up from Ron Paul supporters.”
“I asked my staff to explain it, and they said, ‘oh it’s your message, it’s your message,’” Paul said. “And I hope it is the message.”
But as the Internet hummed, the media wondered — is Ron Paul’s support real?
“We’ve had so many e-mailers say that clearly some online communities are messing with the outcome,” Fox News wondered.
Turns out, Ron Paul barely registers among likely voters. In the last major presidential poll, just 1 percent of Republican voters said Paul was their pick.
Which brings us back to the restaurant and the reason Paul entered this race to start with.
“I was very skeptical of it, but since then I have come around to believing there are a lot more people out there who are receptive to this message than I ever dreamed of,” Paul said.
His challenge now is turning his vast virtual popularity into a campaign that brings in the real crowds.
Can an Internet sensation of a politican become president?
02:39 AM CDT on Wednesday, June 6, 2007
By Lee McGuire / 11 News
Ron Paul hopes his message gains him votes for president. The Republicans running for president took each other to task again Tuesday night. This time, it was in New Hampshire — and if this debate is anything like the last one, then the blogs are buzzing about a little-known Republican from Lake Jackson.
Congressman Ron Paul didn’t do too well the last time he ran for president. In 1988 he got less than one-half of 1 percent of the vote.
But today he is the second-most popular search on the Internet, just behind “YouTube.”
To most presidential candidates, the lunch special at the Baytown Seafood Restaurant serves up a tempting morsel of likely voters.
But to candidate Ron Paul it’s just lunch. Traveling alone with no campaign staff, the entire presidential campaign of this congressman and Lake Jackson obstetrician is built around little more than a message.
“Republicans have dug a hole for themselves and they don’t know what to do,” Paul said.
That hole, he said, is the war in Iraq. His answer is what has fired up his base and cemented opposition to his campaign.
“We end it, our part in it,” Rep. Paul said. “We let them kill each other, we come home, there’s no reason to believe it might get worse. And there’s a whole lot of reason to believe it might get better.”
But what, then, of the argument that pulling out of Iraq would abandon millions of vulnerable people? Leaving them defenseless in a near-certain civil war?
“But we have a moral obligation to take care of Americans, a moral obligation to fight wars that are declared,” Paul said. “A moral obligation to protect our young people from getting involved in a war that we don’t know why we’re there, there won’t be an end point.”
Paul is a fiscal conservative. He’s pro-life. He’d like to put the U.S. dollar back on the gold standard. But this time, his presidential campaign is almost all about the war.
“How am I going to win?” he said. “Only time will tell, and the only thing I could say is we’re way ahead of what I ever dreamed of, and it has to do with what’s going on on the Internet.”
On the Web, Ron Paul is something of a superhero.
People search for his name more than almost anything else.
And look what happened when Fox News asked viewers to rate the candidates after a Republican debate: “In first place, Ron Paul, surprisingly, 30 percent.”
On MSNBC, the same thing: “The highest rated candidate at the moment, Ron Paul at 39 percent, and a mighty roar has just gone up from Ron Paul supporters.”
“I asked my staff to explain it, and they said, ‘oh it’s your message, it’s your message,’” Paul said. “And I hope it is the message.”
But as the Internet hummed, the media wondered — is Ron Paul’s support real?
“We’ve had so many e-mailers say that clearly some online communities are messing with the outcome,” Fox News wondered.
Turns out, Ron Paul barely registers among likely voters. In the last major presidential poll, just 1 percent of Republican voters said Paul was their pick.
Which brings us back to the restaurant and the reason Paul entered this race to start with.
“I was very skeptical of it, but since then I have come around to believing there are a lot more people out there who are receptive to this message than I ever dreamed of,” Paul said.
His challenge now is turning his vast virtual popularity into a campaign that brings in the real crowds.
Thanks for having this board? Why isn't this in the politica section? I dound this by accident and have it in my favorites. I'm sure there are others that don't know this is here as well. Go Ron Paul!1
Tonight 7pm Easter Time Ron Paul in the debates on CNN. Be sure to vote in the different sites for Ron Paul. Go Ron Paul!!
http://youtube. com/watch? v=8qrwy3mR3Mo
Ron Paul on the Daily Show.