Paulmania
Later today I’ll be reporting from Minnesota’s Target Center where Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), who has yet to endorse John McCain, is holding a massive rally in an arena that I believe is bigger than the one where the RNC is happening. CNN ran an interview with Paul this morning:
CNN: A report I read this morning that the McCain campaign and the Republican National Convention are actively reaching out to you to try to get your support for Senator McCain’s candidacy. is that true?
PAUL: I wouldn’t put it in those words. (laughs)
CNN: How would you put it?
PAUL: Imagine — I don’t even know where they got a statement like that! I mean, we’ve been reaching out. we were requesting whether I could come to the floor. and really, we’ve been just up against a wall.
CNN: So they haven’t been reaching out to you?
PAUL: I wouldn’t call it that. They had one individual come talk to us and said with a would we like. We listed a lot of things. We said could we come to the floor? They said yeah under very very restricted conditions. A Republican congressman should have a pass to the floor but they said your pass will be at the gate and you can pick it up when you leave and you can’t take anybody with you. I mean, my staff — they said we would have three guest passes that i could take on to the floor with me, but they never confirmed that.
Meanwhile, here’s what Sarah Palin used to say about Paul:
MTV Street Team: Well, a lot of students asked me to ask you, Ron Paul,
cult-following in Alaska….Governor Sarah Palin: He’s cool. He’s a good guy. He’s a good guy. He’s so independent. He’s independent of like the party machine, I’m like, right on, so am I. The party machinery, on both sides of the party, ya know, Americans are tiring of the incessant partisanship that gets in the way of just doing the right thing for this country.
Well, she used to be a Buchananite. And she used to be an Alaska secessionist. So I suppose a soft spot for Dr. Paul is to be expected.
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September 2nd, 2008 at 10:00 am
Why is Palin talking like that? Because she’s talking to MTV and feels the need to sound ‘young and hip’? I know people use all sorts of interjections in natural speech, but you’d think somebody could’ve cleaned that up in transcription.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:01 am
Seen the new polls? Looks like voters aren’t particularly impressed by the “Alaska First!” ticket.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:14 am
This just in from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080902/ap_on_el_pr/cvn_convention_rdp
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“The man who led McCain’s search for a vice-presidential nominee said he thought all the possible red flags unearthed during the background check had now been made public.”
Hee hee hee. Well, you just never know, do you?
There was that one investigator who never reported back in — best we can tell, the polar bears ate him.
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:22 am
I could be wrong but I believe it is no longer “hip” for young people to use the phrase “right on.”
September 2nd, 2008 at 10:37 am
“Why is Palin talking like that? Because she’s talking to MTV and feels the need to sound ‘young and hip’? I know people use all sorts of interjections in natural speech, but you’d think somebody could’ve cleaned that up in transcription.”
Because she’s not professional? She got into the AK gov. seat because the state party apparatus was imploding, and she seems nice. Didn’t you catch her response to whether she was ready to be president, if needed? It included a “yup, yup.”
There’s a reason they’re not letting her be interviewed.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
I frequently use the phrase “Right On”, which means there’s no way in hell it could be hip.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:00 am
The first question reporters need to ask her: did she rush back to have Trig in Alaska so that he would have citizenship in the case of secession?
The second: will you withdraw if you find that the Vice Presidency isn’t “fruitful for Alaska”?
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
Listen, I don’t really like Palin either, but she supported Steve Forbes, not Buchanan. She stated publicly at the time that she only wore the Buchanan button to show respect for Buchanan when he was visiting the state. The Alaska Independence Party thing on the other hand, is much worse, and is also actually true.
September 2nd, 2008 at 11:33 am
The “Buchananite” thing has been discredited. See here
I’m no Palin fan btw, just looking for accuracy in reporting.
September 2nd, 2008 at 12:03 pm
She sounds like a valley girl.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Yeah, remember when Hitler visited Spain and Franco wore that swastika and then the lefties yelled “fascist!” but Franco was like “unh naw, I’m just making Hitler feel at home” and he was like OH SNAP! But really, why make Buchanan feel at home anywhere? Alaska is already full of white people anyway, so it’s no like any of us brownies were around to scare him.
When you say something is discredited, point to a real news source. Don’t link to the Volokh Conspiracy.
September 2nd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Supporting Forbes is that much better than supporting Buchanan?
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