Ronstock 08!
That’s what they are calling it — next week’s rally by Ron Paul (failed Presidential candidate) supporters meeting across the river from the RNC St. Paul event.
So have any of you heard about this? They’ve sold 9800 tickets to this thing and today is the first I’ve heard of it. If this had been 9800 Hillary supporters rallying in Boulder, this would have replaced huge chunks of the coverage of the DNC convention. And the news organizations would be following some group of these folks for the rest of the political season, with primo seats at the talking head desks to continue to air their grievances. (And be sure to email your network and cable news providers to specifically ask for this coverage now!)
In any event, the Paul supporters are traveling to Minneapolis in their “Ronvoys” (I did not make that up) with some of them camping at Lake Independence (a really nice spot west of Minneapolis, actually) and others camping at a dairy farm. (How they liken this to Woodstock, other than the camping at a farm, I don’t get.) Ron Paul himself says he is not making an endorsement for McCain, but it saying nice things about Bob Barr.
The training events look alot like the efforts of the DFA group or Camp Wellstone, and those have been really valuable for progressives getting involved with politics. Plenty of the newest additions to Congress and the Senate have benefited from such training themselves or by their campaign management.
Tags: 2008 Presidential
Thank you liberal media!
If there’s a story it will be about how this is good for the McCain campaign.
You got that right. It bogles the mind to think what the Denver coverage would have been like if Democrats were this divided.
What happened in Denver?
All the news is about Dayton, Ohio!
It would be democracy if the two party system “permitted” other candidates like Bob Barr, Ron Paul, Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney to debate them. Even one lousy national televised debate.
Until third parties are able to debate the two party system we are locked into side show convention production with no substance.
Until citizens wise up, we are stuck with a two party system and no clue what a 3rd parties are proposing and whether their ideas are sound, and workable.
Other countries have several parties and it seems to work for them.
I’m not kidding about writing the news orgs to ask them to make sure they cover this. Altho it really is looking like the RNC is sadly going to be competing for coverage with hurricane Gustav.
My own relatives in the area are now out and I do hope that this storm fizzles before it makes landfall, but that is not looking likely.
You GO girl!!
Write, write, write….as God as your witness, you’ll never go hungry again!!!!!!!!
Anon,
They have a parlimentary system. We don’t.