Liveblogging C-SPAN 2′s Live Coverage of Ron Paul’s Rally for the Republic

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:37:16 +0000

…and as a bonus, a few comments on the RNC which we saw right after Ron Paul’s speech. Transcript after the jump!

12:41

M – RALLY FOR THE REPUBLIC

12:44

M – If you’re not sitting in front of the TV, you can watch the Rally online through C-SPAN 2′s live coverage at http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN2_wm.aspx

12:49

M – …the event’s running late and hasn’t started… the C-SPAN 2 guy is getting antsy and is now showing some RNC footage from earlier.

1:10	M – Ugh. Rally’s still delayed. Now showing yesterday’s protests.

1:10	M – ”Hey hey, Ho ho; the War in Iraq has got to go!”

1:11	M – ”Bush lied and people died.”

1:11	M – They showed some protests on C-SPAN yesterday, and throughout it all you could see a “9/11 was an inside job” sign.

1:12	M – ”NO MORE WAR!”

1:13	M – ”Whose street?” “Our street!” “Whose war?” “Their war!”

1:13	M – Do I hear “Yes we can”…???

1:13	M – Still waiting for the rally… by supporters of former presidential candidate Ron Paul…

1:14	M – JESSSE VENTURA, TUCKER CARLSON, SARAH EVANS, AIMEE ALLEN

1:15	M – …They’re 45 minutes late

1:15	M – Speaking of protests, today’s xkcd: http://xkcd.com/470/

1:16	M – The music’s starting… FINALLY

1:17	M – TUCKER CARLSON!!!

1:18	M – Tucker Carlson voted for Ron Paul in 1988!

1:20	M – Three things: 1. Ron Paul didn’t care that people disagreed with him. “Amen” 2. Ron Paul is kind to the people around him 3. Sincerely has zero interest in controlling other people

1:21	M – Ron Paul has never seen pot but supports medicinal marijuana!

1:25	M – the LAND OF THE FREEEEEE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVEEEE

1:26	M – Ooh, GOP candidate for congress!

1:27	M – taking the 5th district back, from liberalism, fascism, and socialism!

1:28	M – ”The Surge has been successful.” – http://www.barbdaviswhiteforcongress.com/

1:33	M – Constitution Party are Ron Paul people!

1:37	M – biggest applause line: He’s introduced legislation to ABOLISH THE FEDERAL RESERVE!!!

1:38	M – …what are they chanting?

1:38	M – ”It’s not federal, and it has no reserve”

1:38	M – 1913: worst year ever?

1:39	M – North American Union

1:41	M – ask your congressman to support House Concurrent Resolution 40

1:42	M – lol NAUWarRoom.com

1:43	M – Wow, these guys are really serious about the NAU

1:44	M – ”Barack Hussein Obama”

1:44	M – NAU: greatest threat to the constitution since war of northern agression in 1860

1:48	M – video of people that support Ron Paul

1:56	M – Doug Wead. Telling old people jokes.

1:56	M – …and then plugging for his books.

2:11	M – Ron Paul visiting a guns shop.

2:14	M – Hahaha, Tucker Carlson got speakers mixed up about their books.

2:15	M – a choice between the stupid party and the evil party. Once in a while the parties get together and do something that’s stupid and evil. And this is called bipartisanship.

2:17	M – 100 years McCain!

2:17	M – before that: 39.5% vs. 35%

2:19	M – applause line: the Austrian theory of the business cycle

2:19	M – let’s go ask John McCain what he knows about Frederic Hayek’s theory

2:23	M – The central bank if the lifeblood of war

2:23	M – This is true; Prof. Ferguson was telling us this.

2:28	L – Tom Woods speaking about HL Mencken

2:28	L – let’s ask McCain about him, too

2:29	L – Tom Woods: “Ron Paul reminds us our future is not cast in store…we don’t have to live in the kind of America the two parties have stored for us.”

2:29	L – Translation: anarchy.

2:30	M – Ron Paul speaking to Arabs

2:30	L – Ron Paul was the only candidate who spoke to them. Look where he is now…

2:31	L – Ron Paul is against nuclear first strikes and executive orders.

2:31	M – Ron Paul explaining that he has more power in Congress thanks to his campaign

2:32	L – By saying that he can’t get rid of the IRS, Ron Paul realizes the grandiose nature of his plans.

2:32	L – Ron Paul is popular in Congress! He has more yard signs.

2:33	M – lol chance at winning and achieving the nomination

2:33	M – says stupid self-proclaimed “insider”

2:34	L – ”This isn’t a radical message. It’s a constitutional message.” No, I’m going to disagree with that one. It’s a radical message.

2:34	L – maybe it’s both.

2:35	M – Ron Paul doesn’t hate Arabs

2:35

M – maybe

2:36	M – Carlson; THE ONE THE ONLY THE BEARDED Grover Norquist

2:36	M – Who the heck is Grover Norquist

2:36	L – Tax protester coming up. Get yer guns.

2:36	M – ”Taxes bad. Guns good.”

2:39	L – So far his speech has been pretty much that, plus faith and family.

2:40	M – Homeschoolers. sigh.

2:40	L – Ron Paul supporters educating their own children. I think I made my point.

2:40	M – lol money all day; church all day; guns all day

2:41	L – Fondling guns? Uhhh…

2:41	L – Hillary Clinton = progressive-statist

2:42	M – ”Who would be around Hillary’s statist table?”

2:42	L – John Edwards (trial lawyers)

2:42	M – Joe Biden (unions)

2:43	M – lol the environmental agenda a little longer and more tedious than Leviticus

2:43	L – Well, it is a utopia.

2:44	L – Basically, taxes = slavery because the government owns you.

2:45	L – Ron Paul has been responsible for no new Republican taxes in the last 15 years.

2:46	L – Now he is talking about Coca-Cola

2:46	M – rat head in Coca-Cola

2:47	M – hahaha. Republicans are rat heads

2:47	L – in a coke bottle.

2:48	L – Clinton taxed too much for Norquist’s liking. In other words, Clinton taxed.

2:49	L – Obama hopes we don’t notice his massive tax increase.

2:50	L – He is announcing a new movement, the transparency movement. isn’t this just called accountability and oversight?

2:50	M – Something about putting up copies of checks on the interwebs.

2:51	L – He uses his hands a lot to illustrate his point.

2:51	M – did a little holding up a piece of paper motion

2:51	L – Target Center looks a bit NOT FULL.

2:51	L – Wait, FOX?

2:52	L – oh, it’s pre-recorded

2:52	M – SEAN HANNITY

2:52	M – yea from NH

2:52	L – it’s from that Fox Debate that Ron Paul won in the text message category.

2:52	L – David Cameron, the shill of the empire.

2:53	L – Cameron tries to break free from the mind control and shows his true self by filming Ron Paul with a home camera.

2:54	L – Ron Paul said “Internet.” He wins.

2:55	L – Cameron interrogates Paul about Fox.

2:55	L – Sean Hannity: “Ron Paul having those 3% of people calling in.”

2:56	M – lol Lew Rockwell coming up

2:57	L – Tucker Carlson is telling people to get their tickets scanned if tey want to come back. Tucker, these are Ron Paul supporters. They don’t want anything scanned.

2:57	M – Note how Carlson mentioned that plus the book signing right before Lew Rockwell.

2:57	M – brb I’m going to the bathroom. =P

2:57	L – Next up is the author of the race-friendly “Ron Paul Report,” “Ron Paul Survival Report,” and Ron Paul’s financial newsletter.

2:58	L – Mr. Rockwell does NOT begin with race baiting.

2:59	L – So far it is a basic stump speech. George Bush is not a real conservative, wanted to go to Iraq shortly after taking office, etc.

3:00	L – George Bush disrupted the international economy, his desicions have led to higher gas prices.

3:01	L – This guy speaks softly. Does he carry a big stick?

3:02	L – George Bush sees himself as God’s instrument on Earth. Isn’t that Obama?

3:02	M – ”YOU GOT OWNED”

3:02	L – BEST. REFERENCE. EVER.

3:03	L – Bush believes in “peaceful war.” Ok, this guy is hilarious.

3:03	L – Robert Taft? They have to go that far to find someone they believe is like Ron Paul?

3:04	M – Well Grover Norquist also said Ronald Reagan but that’s him

3:06	M – bashing Buckley?

3:06	L – According to Rockwell’s writings, Ron Paul will succeed where Taft failed. Paul will leave a massive body of work for his supporters (most of it on the Internet, probably).

3:06	L – oh yes, these people don’t like Buckley.

3:06	L – they consider him a traitor.

3:07	M – Oh, hmm.

3:07	L – they also don’t like CATO or Reason. They call the former part of the Kotch-topus and both “beltway libertarians, “Libertarians with a big L,” or “libertines.”

3:08	L – Here is an article on the fight for true libertarianism: http://www.lewrockwell.com/gordon/gordon37.html

3:08	L – The Kochtopus vs. Murray N. Rothbard

3:09	L – There are also some racial oriented newsletters from Mr. Rockwell, too.

3:09	M – I thought Ron Paul wrote them.

3:10	L – probably.

3:10	L – Rockwell was the editor.

3:10	M – Martin Luther King City

3:10	L – Rockwell ends by quoting Rothbard. Yep, he is against this “Kochtopus” machine.

3:11	L – He doesn’t like the “Buckley-ite right-wing.”

3:12	L – TV shot of the convention center, where your millions of dollars went if you donated to him late in the game.

3:12	M – RON PAUL

3:12	M – RON PAUL

3:12	M – Hey it’s that lady

3:12	L – Yea, it’s the black lady who proves that Ron Paul is not racist because she supports Ron Paul.

3:13	M – …and a family of veterans!

3:13	L – LOL, C-SPAN cut out earlier because they thought the video was over.

3:13	M – clearly the camera operators are not diehard Paultards

3:13	L – The guy on TV looks like someone I know.

3:13

L – NOT.

3:14	L – ”Should the war in Iraq be over?” asked to Ron Paul supporters. I wonder what their answer will be.

3:14	L – Oh wow, they are interviewing people who don’t look sketchy.

3:15	L – Back to the sketchy people.

3:15	M – You racist

3:15

M – =P

3:15	L – pffftt…I said nothing about the black lady. However, this gentlemen looks too freaky.

3:15	L – racist for assuming I was racist.

3:16	M – Hahaha. btw they are still 45 minutes behind schedule.

3:16	L – That’s good because I woke up late.

3:16	M – STARTED A BLOG, LIVEBLOGGING

3:17	M – THIS RALLY

3:17	M – WE’RE ADVANCING THE MESSAGE OF RON PAUL

3:18	L – Tucker appears to be tipsy, a bit drunk.

3:18	M – Who’s this guy again? Bill Kaufman?

3:18	M – Yes. def.

3:18	M – From the previous night’s Ron Paul Nation Celebration.

3:18	L – Target Center looks empty.

3:18	L – Bill Kaufman, author, “Ain’t My America.”

3:19	L – GOD AND GUNS reference.

3:20	L – I thought these people would be flattered.

3:21	L – Kaufman is describing the punishment Taft would receive as a Republican today, which includes listening to Mitt Romney speak.

3:22	L – ”Ron Paul is from 1776″…he is over 200 years old!

3:22	L – Robert Frost anticipated the rise of the neoconservatives.

3:23	L – Kaufman supports…Ralph Nader.

3:24	M – 3 trillion dollar war

3:24	M – Does Romney have a speaking spot at RNC?

3:24	L – Now he is singing “War, what is good for? Absolutely nothing.” Please don’t let that become a chant.

3:24	L – He originally did, I’m not sure if he still does.

3:25	M – lol War spreads venereal disease.

3:25	L – That’s true, Hitler had syphilis.

3:27	L – Kaufman says that he and other real Americans will make their stand inside churches and playgrounds…someone take note.

3:27	M – BOO John Edwards

3:27	L – Oh, and according to him, McCain plans to make his stand in Iraq.

3:28	L – Ron Paul supporters have “heart and soul.” Apparently, Booker T Washington supports the Ron Paul movement.

3:30	L – Kaufman tries to link Vietnam to Iraq because people died in both.

3:30	M – Indeed

3:30	M – Is there anything else they have in common?

3:31	L – ”responsible peace”?

3:31	L – I think they are showing a trailer for I.O.U.S.A..

3:32	M – Aha, yes. Coming soon in August?

3:32	L – Yes, they were. They also showed a picture of the Bank of China for one second.

3:32	M – So this is the special guest? Who?

3:33	L – The president of the John Birch Society is speaking.

3:34	L – The dude is old.

3:35	L – So far he has congratulated himself, his group, and Ron Paul for attending a meeting.

3:36	M – What does the John Birch society do?

3:37	L – ”political education and action”

3:37	M – He laughs a little weird you can hear it on the microphone

3:37	L – Oh, that isn’t the cameraman?

3:38	L – According to him I owe $31,000.

3:38	L – Now he is blasting foreign aid.

3:38

M – sigh

3:38	L – Send 4th graders to Washington, send Ron Paul!

3:39	M – Why bash foreign aid? I don’t understand.

3:39	M – ok, here we go. Federal Reserve

3:40	M – BRING GOLD BACK

3:40	L – I think the foreign aid bit was secondary; he was just complaining that we spend what we don’t have.

3:40	L – Some chant about destroying the Fed. McManus says that Congress can destroy the Fed.

3:41

M – NAU

3:41	L – He is agains the illegal immigrant invasion. What happened to the free trade of goods and people?

3:41

L – AMERO

3:41	M – …and merge us with EU? That one’s new

3:42	L – Nah, it’s old. It’s called the New World Order.

3:43	L – He is reading the Constitution line by line and explaining why everything we have now is illegal.

3:44	L – Constitutional Convention = “The Con-Con.” Touche, Mr. McManus.

3:45	L – McManus hates amending the constitution, which is constitutional.

3:45	M – lol the John Birch Society saved the Constitution

3:47	L – The Constitution is like the Ten Commandments.

3:48	M – Another plug for the John Birch Society

3:48	L – ”If you like Ron Paul, you’ll like the John Birch Society.” Talk about wannabe coattails.

3:49	M – POWs <3 Ron Paul

3:50	L – I think this video is from the time when the marijuana guy asked him if he supported federal action against those who use marijuana.

3:50	L – remember Romney?

3:51	M – What about Romney?

3:51	L – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY6UTnS6Z-A

3:51	L – That’s the marijuana guy.

3:53	M – lol medical marijuana

3:54	L – Bruce Fein is next; he worked with Reagan so of course he gets Lord of the Rings music to welcome him.

3:55	M – Deputy Associate something or other

3:55	M – Dramatic film music for Bruce Fein.

3:55	L – He is talking about Robespierre

3:56	L – This is why Ron Paul lost.

3:57	L – He hates the military (McCain) and utopian (Obama) orthodoxies.

3:58	L – He hates them because it makes those around the world hate us.

3:59	L – He just called Hiroshima and Nagasaki foreign countries.

4:00	M – Causus Bella is wrong

4:00	M – it’s casus

4:01	M – not causus

4:01	L – Caucasus?

4:01	L – Sorry, Georgia on my mind.

4:02	L – He is the nth person to bring up the Constitution

4:04	L – He is using words most people can’t understand: “Hubristic objective, executive depostism, James Madison.”

4:04	L – Of course, the despotism he is talking about can’t be anything other than executive.

4:04	L – Has anyone talked about the courts?

4:05	L – People in other countries don’t have the DNA to be free.

4:06	L – Comparing Afghan invasion to Gulliver’s travels.

4:07	L – We must move forward by going back to 1821.

4:07	M – yea, a few

4:07	M – That’s not racial transcendence!

4:08	L – Bruce Fein quoting John Q. Adams on how the US never went abroad in the past. I should just quote presidents who say we have to.

4:10	L – One thing I notice is that C-Span calls the event “Rally for Ron Paul”…but it’s really “Rally for the Republic.” Does that mean Ron Paul is the Republic?

4:12	L – Lol Bruce Fein accusing John McCain of living in a time warp.

4:12	L – No, Mr. Fein, McCain is just that old.

4:13	L – And Fein is the one who quotes from people who lived over 100, 200 years ago.

4:14	M – lol too much Shakespeare

4:15	L – Now he is explaining why modern presidents do the things they do.

4:15	L – They want power.

4:16	L – How? Congress delegates the power to go to war.

4:16	L – Now he bashes Biden.

4:18	M – Didn’t he bash Robespierre about ten hours ago?

4:18	L – He talked about Robespierre. Now he is talking about the Iliad.

4:19	M – Now Tacitus

4:19	L – This guy knows a lot, but he doesn’t know the meaning of histrionic.

4:20	L – M, what the hell did we just see?

4:20	L – Kent Snyder, R.I.P.

4:24	L – JESSE VENTURA is coming up.

4:24	L – FREEDOM.

4:24	M – JESSE VENTURA

4:24	M – Wearing his Navy Seal shirt

4:24	L – Jesse Ventura dressed for a barbeque.

4:25	M – JESSE VENTURA IS COMING OUT OF RETIREMENT!!!

4:26	L – He feels this is the occasion to come out of retirement….and not to challenge Norm Coleman or Al Franken?

4:26	L – Jesse wants to be booed.

4:27	M – THE NATIONAL DEBT

4:27	L – Over 9 trillion in debt, the Democrats and Republicans are responsible.

4:28	L – Jesse says a newborn in $30,000 in debt. McManus of the John Birch Society said $31,000.

4:29	L – well, which is it? I want to pay my debt.

4:29	L – For being so anti-government, Ventura believes in the power of the vote.

4:30	M – www.perotcharts.org

4:30	L – Yes, we need to open up the debates. Allow people like Ross Perot and Vermin Supreme to debate.

4:30	M – lol wait no http://perotcharts.com/

4:32	L – Ventura talking about how Clinton and Dole screwed Perot out of the debates in ’96.

4:32	L – ROCK THE DEBATE — a group working to open up the debates.

4:33	L – ”…so that a candidate like Jesse Ventura can win.” Jesse, a candidate that is you could have won had you run against Coleman and Franken.

4:34	L – Paul/Ventura ’12?

4:36	L – Jesse Ventura “lived in Mexico with brown people.”

4:37	M – lol what does this crowd think about immigration?

4:37	L – There actually is more than one viewpoint in this rally.

4:38	L – Another reference to the Constitution.

4:39	L – Jesse is worried about his speeches.

4:40	M – Finally

4:40	M – the real reason for the 2nd amendment

4:41	M – lol the people can beat the government just like the Vietnamese beat the U.S.

4:42	L – OMG 9/11 reference

4:42	M – wtf. What’s he going to say about 9.11

4:42	L – Is Ventura a truther?

4:43	L – Ventura is a demolitions expert, but his point was about asking questions.

4:43	M – lol for a moment I thought he was going to cite his demolition expert authority that it was a controlled demolition

4:44	L – ”Number one: why has the US government not charged Osama for 9/11?”

4:44	M – LOL 9/11 not listed on the most wanted list? really?

4:45

L – yea

4:45	L – time to check

4:45	L – http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm

4:45	L – ”Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. These attacks killed over 200 people. In addition, Bin Laden is a suspect in other terrorist attacks throughout the world.”

4:46	L – His second point was about Osama not being wanted for 9/11 on the FBI Most Wanted list.

4:48	L – Ventura plugging his book.

4:48	L – Ventura is officially back in the R3volution movement!

4:49	M – It’s official: “Let’s get the Revolution going!”

4:49	L – VENTURA 2012

4:49	M – LOL what’s he talking about with 2012

4:49	L – Let’s see…end of the world, maya prophecies, US PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

4:50	M – LOL did Jesse Ventura just do a sort-of-might announcement about 2012

4:50	L – Yes, he did.

4:50	M – oh lol and a MN Senate endorsement

4:51	L – He forgot something…Dean Barkley for US Senate.

4:51	L – M, it’s R3volution, not Revolution. You see, the 3vol part is love backwards. Pretty ingenious, huh?

4:53

M – uhhh.

4:53	L – Kent Snyder, former campaign manager. He passed away recently.

4:54	M – lol discussing the definition of “freedom” and “liberty”?

4:57	L – So one of the recent developments in the R3volution is that Albert Howard, minor presidential nominee candidate in New Hampshire, has moved to Sweden.

4:57	L – He also found out that Ron Paul is a mason and therefore evil.

4:57	L – http://albertbenjaminhoward.blogspot.com/2008/08/ron-paul-and-freemasonry.html

4:57	M – lol what’s he doing in Sweden

4:58	L – probably trying to escape the NWO.

4:58	L – “The Angel of the Lord told me in January of 1992 that Hillary Rodham Clinton and I would meet and be running against each other and that she would lose”. -Albert Benjamin Howard

4:58	L – http://alberthoward.org/default.aspx

4:59	M – …but the EU rules Sweden.

4:59	M – He’s doing it wrong.

5:00	L – Actually, that statement about HIllary is true. They met, they ran against each other, and Hillary lost.

5:01	M – No both having run in different parties’ primaries does not count.

5:01	L – shhhh….

5:01	L – Now they are showing a classic Ron Paul YouTube videos.

5:04	M – IF YOU GOOGLE RON PAUL

5:08	L – A really good Sinatra impersonator singing about Ron Paul.

5:08	M – RON PAUL

5:08	L – Is Tucker getting paid for this gig?

5:08	M – Wait this isn’t really him?

5:08	L – No, Sinatra has been dead for a decade.

5:09	M – But Ron Paul is old

5:09

L – lol

5:09	M – Maybe the song is from a while back

5:09	L – Back when he first ran for Congress in the 20s.

5:10	L – Oh cool, this is the CGI video for the future Ron Paul videogame.

5:11	L – Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_G3U5Ab_Rk

5:12	L – Btw, many Paulites hate the I.O.U.S.A. movie

5:12	L – http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022452.html

5:12	L – http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022449.html

5:13	L – http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/022373.html

5:15	L – Now they are explaining why they are there. The Campaign for Liberty will slowly save America.

5:15

M – uhh

5:15	M – Homeschooling materials?

5:15	L – HOME SCHOOLING MATERIALS.

5:16	L – Gary Johnson

5:17	L – From Governor to trash picker.

5:20	M – lol “I had a Ron Paul experience”

5:20	L – His glasses break in half, climbed Mount Everest, and debated his opponent 28 times…this guy rocks.

5:20	L – Paul/Ventura/Johnson triumvirate ’12

5:23	L – He used “tax-paying” and “law-abiding” in the same sentence. This guy is a Ron Paul supporter?

5:24	M – Now he’s just kvetching about his dumb legislature

5:25	L – Johnson’s glasses impress me the most.

5:25	L – They wear Johnson, not the other way.

5:26	L – He vetoed hate crime legislation. He is a racist.

5:27	M – lol vetoed a dog and cat exercise bill

5:28	M – lol helmet legislation

5:28	M – lol organ donor shortage this guy is awesome

5:32	L – Johnson’s Seven Principles of Good Government: http://www.angelfire.com/on/GEAR2000/drugreform.html

5:32	L – Johnson predicts a bout of hyperinflation

5:34	M – Is this guy drunk?

5:34	L – He also proposes an adop-a-Republican program.

5:34	M – He talked about himself for an hour

5:34	L – That’s the same thing I thought; his mannerism were just weird.

5:34	M – And then adopt-a-Republican what?

5:34	L – BJ LAWSON commercial

5:35	L – running for Congress in North Carolina

5:35	L – Some people call him “the next Ron Paul.”

5:35	M – lol btw C-SPAN finally figured out showing the prepared videos without having to show the screen showing it on camera

5:36	L – no, I just think they aimed it better

5:36

M – oh.

5:36	M – phail.

5:36	L – look at the line on top, it slopes down.

5:36

L – ya

5:37	L – BJ Lawson is Duke medical graduate, like the good Ron Paul.

5:39	L – They are sending out a holla’ for the moneybombs and tea parties.

5:39	L – Oh, they are also thanking the Ron Paul Forums, Daily Paul, and the Ron Paul meetup groups.

5:40	M – RON PAUL BLIMP

5:40	L – RON PAUL BLIMP!

5:41	L – needs more lewrockwell.com and ronpaulwarroom.com

5:42	L – The Ronvoy Project? I thought that was an anti-Paul joke.

5:42	L – WHOA AN OLYMPIAN.

5:43	M – lol that damn tune

5:43	M – Who again?

5:43	L – It’s not Michael Phelps or Nastia Liukin.

5:43	L – Erik Vendt, an Olympic gold medalist. He is the special guest, I guess.

5:44	M – lol but Michael Phelps endorsed George Bush as “cool”

5:44	L – Already he has a better pose than half the speakers who have already gone.

5:45	M – lol Martial Law

5:45	L – Erik Vendt: “One terrorist attack away from Martial Law.”

5:46	L – Paul/Ventura/Johnson/Vendt ’12

5:47	L – Ron Paul brings passion and a sense of worth.

5:48	M – USA USA USA

5:49	M – LOL McCLINTOCK

5:49

L – YES

5:50	L – Tom McClintock = would be California governor in 2003.

5:51	L – www.helptom.com

5:51	M – www.HelpTom.com

5:51	L – McClintock joins the R3volution

5:51	L – Ron Paul going to the Tonight Show.

5:52	L – I think this was the time when Fox didn’t allow him into one of the debates, and Jay Leno was upset.

5:59	M – AIMEE ALLEN

6:00	L – wtf? who is this woman?

6:00	M – I don’t know.

6:00	L – I thought he was going to introduce Ron Paul.

6:00	L – LOL Ron Paul “singing.”

6:01	L – this is like the Will.I.Am. video. Ron.He.Is.

6:02	L – We are getting to Ron Paul soon. After her there will be a break, then Barry Goldwater, Jr., then Ron Paul.

6:09	L – Did Tucker leave?

6:17	L – C-SPAN 2 coverage will resume at 8PM ET.

7:02	L – We are back, but the convention isn’t. If you support Ron Paul, call C-SPAN 2 at 202-624-0760.

7:31	L – Finally, it’s back.

7:32	L – Barry Goldwater, Jr. will introduce Ron Paul.

7:32	M – KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE

7:32	L – By the way, Jimmy Vaughan repeated “Down With Big Brother” at least a dozen times in his song.

7:32	M – A whole lot of cameras flashing off now

7:33	L – Goldwater looks like a high school football coach who has had one drink too many.

7:33	M – politics = lots of bloodsucking creatures

7:35	L – Barry, you are not suppose to raise your script that high.

7:35	M – RON PAUL ON SCREEN

7:36	L – The balloons blind Barry.

7:38	M – What’s the point of the alligators story?

7:38	L – I think he is going back to his childhood.

7:38	L – Carol Paul, recently released from the hospital.

7:38	L – RAND PAUL…Ayn Rand?

7:41	L – Paul campaigned for Goldwater, Sr. Goldwater, Jr. campaigned for Paul. It’s the Circle of Life.

7:41	L – RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL

7:41	M – RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL

7:42	M – RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL

7:42	L – The Target Center looks packed now.

7:43	M – GO RON PAUL

7:44	L – Ron Paul can’t believe how popular he and his ideas are.

7:45	L – Get well soon, Mrs. Paul!

7:45	L – Ron Paul acknowledges all beliefs.

7:47	M – ”I want to be President because of the things I don’t want to do… I don’t want to run people’s lives, I don’t want to run the economy, I don’t want to run the world.”

7:48	M – Not single cent of taxpayer money spent on his rally – Paul.

7:48	L – Unlike another meeting in a nearby town.

7:48	M – 16.8 million dollars apiece!

7:49	L – NO DEBT for Ron Paul.

7:49	M – no debt for this political movement

7:49	L – Ron Paul = 1; United States Government = 0

7:49	M – ; Hillary Clinton = -1; Mike Gravel = -1

7:50	M – like become stupid again?

7:50	L – Just like Spider-man. With great power comes great responsibility.

7:51	M – LOL 14 year old autistic-libertarian teenager boy.

7:52	L – So that’s why he lost. Kids ran the campaign.

7:53	L – Ron Paul received more money from the troops than all the other candidates combined.

7:53	M – …wasn’t it all the Republican candidates put together?

7:54	L – hey, don’t question Ron Paul.

7:55	L – The Feds are in the convention.

7:57	L – Ron Paul wants more moral and constitutional arguments.

8:00	M – NEW WORLD ORDER

8:00	L – and the people boo the NWO.

8:00	L – Now he talks about the difference between needs and rights.

8:02	L – He bashes Keynesian economics, political history, and education in general.

8:02	L – WE NEED MORE AUSTRIAN HARD MONEY ECONOMICS.

8:04	L – Ron Paul says you can make money and still be a nice guy.

8:06	L – Not understanding liberty makes you poor.

8:12	M – Spending, Borrowing, Inflation

8:12	M – END THE FED END THE FED END THE FED END THE FED

8:13	L – Ron Paul likes the chant.

8:17	L – Government handicapped airlines by not allowing people to carry guns.

8:18	M – The Constitution says that only gold and silver are legal tender?

8:18	L – Ron Paul hates the Constitutional Dollar, likes gold and silver.

8:18	L – We talked about that before, didn’t we?

8:19	M – LOL maybe, but I don’t want to become like Ron Paul’s friend on the banking committee that didn’t know that the dollar wasn’t backed by anything.

8:20	M – People are still chanting “Bring Gold Back” when Ron Paul’s talking about PATRIOT Act, FISA, and Military Commisions Act

8:21	L – NO ID NO ID NO ID

8:21	L – They don’t like the Real ID; Sarah Palin will be great for them.

8:21	L – http://www.reason.com/convention2008/show/128519.html

8:24

L – “”No state shall enter
into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque
and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold
and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of
attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of
contracts, or grant any title of nobility.”"

8:25	L – and Congress has the power “To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;”

8:25	L – Ron Paul is talking about hemp a lot.

8:25	M – ”stupid complications”

8:26	M – lol hem = better source of ethanol

8:26	L – Hemp is the fuel of the future.

8:26	M – This guy can’t be serious. Is he high?

8:28	L – From the looks of it, Ron Paul is not even a minarchist at heart.

8:29	M – …No… “100% of the principle”

8:31	M – Bring on the class action lawsuits in place of the EPA

8:31	L – The marketplace can solve “global warming.”

8:32	L – ”Our day is coming.”

8:32	M – so do I have the right to warm up my neighbor’s air?

8:33	L – No, strict adherence to property rights.

8:33	M – RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL

8:35	L – According to Ron Paul we are sending money to Georgia to protect the oil line.

8:36	M – lol Iran

8:38	M – ”Don’t steal. The government hates the competition.”

8:38	L – http://angelabailey.name/images%5Cron_paul_desk.jpg

8:39	L – Obama is counterfeit.

8:46	L – The Universal Champion of Liberty

8:46	L – That’s probably the title of Ron Paul’s next novel.

8:47	M – FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM FREEDOM

8:48	L – He needs to give the official cue for “END THE FED.”

8:48	M – From those 12 spammers in the beginning

8:49	M – to 1.2 million votes for Ron Paul

8:50	L – They sure had to text a lot to get that number.

8:50	M – RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL RON PAUL

8:51	L – lol Ron Paul’s microphone got caught somewhere.

8:52	L – Ok, and the Ron Paul rally is officially over. Now we turn to MSNBC and Laura Bush. She is introducing President George Bush.

8:53	L – President Bush appears in a giant screen.

8:54	M – lol King George appoints his successor

8:55	L – W telling his father, “I DID IT!”

8:56	M – John McCain was a POW

8:56	L – really??????

8:57	L – Bush should know about McCain’s adopted child.

8:58	M – wtf so any idea where this offshore drilling idea came from?

8:58	M – lol now Bush tries to paint McCain as a maverick

8:58	L – Did Bush just say “John is an independent, man” or “John is an independent man”?

8:58	M – McCain is a maverick, because he agreed with my surge – George Bush.

8:59	L – McCain is ready to lose this election because he agreed with me – George Bush

9:00	L – Look at that, Alaska has a delegation.

9:00	L – are they from the Alaska Independence Party?

9:00	M – LOL they all despite Sarah Palin or something right?

9:02	M – Laura Bush stuck with her pet literacy project rather than a pet universal healthcare program

9:03	L – Kosovo’s president and prime minister? Ooohh independence.

9:03	M – …and in the same paragraph as South Ossetia!

9:05	L – Reagan tribute on MSNBC

9:05	M – why a Reagan vid?

9:05	L – because he is Ronald Reagan.

9:06	L – ”The media despised him…California nutcase…maverick”

9:06	L – Maverick like McCain m i rite?

9:07	L – Yes, I was right. McCain was a foot soldier in the Reagan revolution.

9:07	M – lol “hated taxes, inflation, and the Soviets”

9:08	L – ”Ronald Reagan saved our century.”

9:09	L – Now Fred Thompson is going to speak.

9:09	M – It’s ARTHER BRANCH!

9:10	L – I thought it was a Republican who said America is a nation of whiners.

9:11	L – There is a Washington cocktail circuit? WHERE?

9:11	L – WHEN? HOW?

9:12	M – Fred Thompson <3 Sarah Palin

9:12	L – Sounds like Ron Paul.

9:12	M – to do what with a moose?

9:13	L – Sarah Palin eats teh mooseburgers.

9:13	L – I think he said “field dress.”

9:13	M – What’s that? Gotta take my beltway libertarian hat off here and put on my redneck hat

9:13	L – http://hunting.about.com/od/deerbiggame/ht/htfielddress.htm

9:14	L – ”The timely removal of your game’s innards”

9:15	L – McCain BLOGETTE

9:15	M – ”Carefully cut a circle around the anus”

9:16	M – lol John McCain is a rebel

9:16	L – Ro-berta McCain, 96 years old. McCain can probably last eight years, then.

9:16	L – John McCain: Rebel who puts country first.

9:17	L – John McCain dated a stripper.

9:17	L – That’s what Thompson said, “an exotic dancer.”

9:19	L – Thompson is giving a bio of McCain’s POW time.

9:24	L – No, the questions “who is this man?” and “can we trust this man with the presidency?” are being asked about Sarah Palin.

9:24	L – except, of course, that Palin is a woman running for VP.

9:25	L – ”John McCain prefers to speak quietly with the troops.” No, Fred, the press just doesn’t cover his trips anymore.

9:26	M – yes, John McCain in the old days actually opposed a military deployment

9:27	L – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CWaUM3kxfA

9:27	L – Nixon: Fred Thompson Is “Dumb As Hell”

9:27	L – I like Thompson more now.

9:28	L – John McCain in the background answering a 3 AM phone call.

9:28	L – Translation: Obama doesn’t put America first.

9:29	L – lol Thompson made fun of Ron Paul in one of the debates about the spending issue.

9:30	M – Finally, attacking the Congress

9:30	M – They need to do more of that

9:31	L – He has to do it, there is no other way to begin to outline why they need to win.

9:31	L – So is Fred Thompson the VP nominee now or what?

9:32	L – Fred Thompson for AG!

9:32	L – Fred Thompson would make a good actor.

9:33	M – lol “above his pay grade”

9:35	L – so speaking of “above his pay grade,” Obama said during the Saddleback discussion that the United States had done some bad things, but he never elaborated on what those things were.

9:35	L – Did Thompson just say “John bless America”?

9:36	M – Chris Matthews pause looked a lot like Boris Johnson

9:36	L – Olbermann’s take: Thompson’s speech was militaristic, puts McCain next to flags and guns.

9:37	L – Yes, he does, especially when he doesn’t comb his hair.

9:39	L – Joe is next!

9:39	M – AWAITING JOE LIEBERMAN

9:40	L – Lieberman starts with COUNTRY FIRST.

9:43	L – Lieberman said the D word.

9:44	M – This speech makes clear why he’s not the VP candidate: McCain can have all the benefits of Joe Lieberman’s support without any of the negatives you’d get for having him on the ticket.

9:47	L – Lieberman is telling us a dirty little secret about his Dem pals.

9:50	L – Basically, Barack talks the talk, but he doesn’t walk the walk.

9:51	L – OMG REPUBLICANS CLAPPING FOR CLINTON AT THE RNC.

9:52	M – Palin is a lot more important for the Republicans than Biden was to Democrats

9:53	L – Yes, one of them is now actually running in the election.

9:53	L – Unless all those rumors are true.

9:55	M – Thank God the Republicans think that the troops are coming home in honor. Because otherwise we’d get stuck watching Wermacht-defeat-marches.

9:56	L – …and you have also had the pleasure of correcting his verbal gaffes in the Middle East, Joe.

9:57	L – Like every other election, this is not an ordinary election.