Ron Paul Is Ready to Rumble
While we’ve been talking about Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, and Barack Obama today, we haven’t forgotten about who’s really important in the 2008 presidential primaries—Ron Paul.
The Boston Daily Official Fringe Candidate pulled a respectable 10 percent to come in 5th in last night’s Iowa caucuses. While we’re disappointed that our boy didn’t topple the establishment last night, we’ve still got reason to believe.
And that reason is Glenn Jacobs, better known as Kane to fans of the WWE. The wrestling superstar has endorsed Ron Paul. (Link via Wonkette.)
Most of America thinks that wrestlers are just overgrown thespians who like spandex and ugly women with fake boobs, but that’s not all they think about.
If you’re like me, you’re tired of unnecessary and exorbitant taxes, you’re tired of the dollar constantly losing purchasing power, and you’re alarmed when politicians demand that we surrender our constitutionally protected civil liberties, especially the bedrock principles of habeas corpus and due process, in exchange for “security.”
(By the way, we’d just like to claim “habeas corpus” as our wrestling stage name.)
So to our fellow Paul supporters, it’s going to be fine. Huckabee can have his endorsement from Chuck Norris—when was the last time Norris set his half-brother on fire in a casket in front of a live television audience? Kane did just that at the 1998 Royal Rumble. Now that’s a fighter. Just like Ron Paul.
January 4th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Another superstar pro wrestler who has endorsed Ron Paul is WWE’s Sean Morley, stage name Val Venus, another articulate and passionate libertarian.
Both these men are world-renowned entertainers, with huge numbers of fans.
Anyone who takes the time to actually read why they support Ron Paul will discover they are very knowledgeable and deeply concerned about fundamental political issues like war, personal liberty, and free markets.
Paul may not have “toppled the Establishment,” as you say, in Iowa. But he rose out of single digits, beat 9iu11ani, and was just a few points shy of both McCain and Thompson.
On to New Hampshire!
January 4th, 2008 at 12:30 pm
Dont forget that Paul WON the Independent vote with 29%, beating out all those so-called ‘major’ candidates. Rudolph got a measley 1% - and he’s the electable one? Romney got only 19% of the independents and he spent millions there blanketing the airwaves for months.
So the message is clear, if you want a Republican in the White House in 2008 - Ron Paul is the only one who can draw enough across party lines to win.
Ron Paul spent only 20 days in Iowa (less than any of the ‘majors’) and still finished in the top 3 in 17 Iowa counties, and was the only one other than Huck or Romney to win a county.
http://politics.nytimes.com/election-guide/2008/results/states/IA.html
So, you NH and MA independents listen up - Ron Paul has a message of peace and freedom for you!