Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) says a new poll that shows him a a top choice among Texas Republicans to run for Senate has him thinking about the race.
“It’s certainly crossed my mind,” Paul told The Ballot Box of a potential run for Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison’s (R-Texas) Senate seat next year.
Blasphemy. The Senate should not be made of Pauls. It should be made of what it was originally: gold. If Ron Paul remains consistent, he will endorse a bar of gold for the job. [The Hill]
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Huh, I never before imagined there would be anything in the world that could possibly get me to utter the phrase "I wish Kay Bailey Hutchison wasn't retiring". I stand corrected.
I think a better way to double the Paul delegation would be to get Paul Wellstone's ass back in there. Is he availble? Pat Paulson? No? Maybe Pope Paul VI, he was actually not too bad, being down with all the liberal hippy Vatican II stuff, which may have saved the Catholic Church from itself if they only stuck with it.
Hmmm… howabout RuPaul, then, s/he's still alive? Couldn't be any worse than Ron Paul.
It would be a Senatorial eleganza extravaganza! And isn't it time there was somebody in the Senate who could recognize the Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent that is Lindsay Graham?
I'd vote for Paul Revere and the Raiders. "Just Like Me" killed.
Wow, a reverse-Bush — it's never been done before. Don't think Texans will take kindly to a father following in his son's footsteps, not masculine enough.
Edit: Damn you Google!
But can he do a Triple Lindy?
Who, besides Michael Jackson if he'd ever heard of him, would name his kid "Augustus Caesar"?
Well, maybe facist poet Ezra Pound, who said he named his kid Homer Shakespeare Pound "for the crescendo effect."
Yes, according to him nobody's better than Ezra.
I knew I was missing something from my library of illegally pirated music. You, dear wonker, have won the afternoon.
I love their song "In the Blood Libel".
The Senate was already dysfunctional before Rand upped the dumb quotient. And now Ron wants to up the grandpa crazy.
So, kinda like the Abe and Homer Simpson of the Senate?
I was imagining more Mr Burns and Smithers.
More like the Chris and Peter Griffin of the US Senate, even. You can guess which one is who.
i was thinking more like the two dude from the bartles + jaymes commercials
I smell reality show.
The batshttyness gets me confused as to which one is which. There's a doctor one, right? And the other one runs a cosplay online storefront or something. Or, like, a fursuit outlit.
This coffee needs more courvassier.
Needz moar BLIMP!!1!
Let me take you back to long gone year of 2008, the International Year of the Potato. David Foster Wallace died. Grand Theft Auto IV came out.
And Paultards ruled the internet.
Anyone with a copy of an Ayn Rand book, a working knowledge of the Articles of Confederation, a love of the 10th Amendment, and a desire to ride in a blimp was type, type, typing away in their basement. No sentence of Paul's was too trivial, no inconsistency too overlookable, and no colonial period outfit too embarrassing.
I believe those days can come again.
From your mouth to God's ears; they were so fucking earnest the snark practically wrote itself. Remember the World of Warcraft rallies? The trustifarians outside of Whole Foods with badly-spelled petitions? The Wonkette/Redstate Alliance?
The blimp, oh dear heaven, remember the blimp?
I'm tearing up here….
Yeah, the blimp really took it to the level of 'performance art'. The internet squalling? Well, we could have done without that, but the blimp was crucial.
Blimp?
I'm so fortunate to have payed absolutely no attention to what was going on in the Republican primaries, at the time. I guess I spared myself some righteous outrage, but I missed out on a Grade A farce, from the sounds of it.
Republican primaries are always a Grade A farce but the Ron Paul blimp took on a life of its own. It was almost as though the blimp was the one running and Ron Paul was simply helping it from city to city. Or perhaps the blimp was Ron Paul.The cries rang out from Cheeto and pizza box strewn basements all over America. Will the blimp make it? Has the blimp been seen? How are the blimp's numbers? We must raise more money for the blimp!
Today, we are all the blimp.
Hutchinson was too sane to truly represent the people of Texas; Paul will surely do a better job.
Hopefully Texas will secede before this becomes a reality.
If Texas secedes will they be our Russia or our Spain?
Our San Marino
If two of our Senators are named Paul….does that mean the nation is 2% Paultarded? I think the number is much higher….are there any more members of the Paul family who can run?
It'll be great to see them on opposite sides of a Senate debate — Poppa Paul will just tell stories about Rand wetting the bed until the opponents give in.
Unfortunately Ron Paul will be about 150% saner than the tea bagging crazed Republican that will eventually fill that seat.
Ron Paul has actually read and published libertarian works on economics and public choice theory. I doubt anyone in the tea party have even read anything beyond the trashy Ayn Rand blather.
Paul see, Paul do.
I can't be alone in thinking he won't even get nominated. Texas has a lot of Republicans waiting in line for that seat.
Right now the race is a toss-up between Louie-Lou-eye Gohmert and Rep. Pigford Smith (R) TX. Maybe Ron Paul can inject some much-needed rationality into the contest.
You never know.
After all, Texas is the brain dead shithead State, when it comes to governing.
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Gold is not a good hedge against senate paul inflation.
♪♫ Da Ru, Rand, Ron run, da Ru, Rand, Ron! ♪♫
Putting the loco in locomotion.
I'm not Texist, but 90% of white Texans over 50 are assholes.
This is not the checks and balances that our Forefathers wanted!
Not much change if he got Kay Bailey's seat: just trading one worn-out old cunt for another. But that KID! That kid of his-the Congress(vomit in my own mouth)man!. That is one seriously retarded fuckstick.
The Pauls will be the New Kennedys! Bow to your retarded new overlords.
Our retarded new overlords aren't the Palins?
It's a sign of the times that it's hard to keep track of all our retarded new overlords, I suppose.
EDIT: Thought I was replying to Negropolis. Oh well.
None of the Palins are currently holding any kind of government seats, at the moment, thank the FSM. We've got two Pauls in Congress. You get them both in the Senate, and it's game over. They'll be stuck there like the glue under the desk of a high schooler.
You're absolutely right, we need a program. Our entire economic recovery could be based on hiring of out of work retarded overlord librettists.
Heaven forbid that there was anything in a jar.
He's a kook, but at least he's a principled kook. The same cannot be said for his son.
I heard that Bristle found another pipe layer in Texas. She has located a tastefully furnished Condo and will move there post haste. She might be attempting to corner the foreclosure market or is running for the Senate from Alaska, Arizona and now Texas. . .
Ron Paul isn't too bad. His son, Rand is a curly hair-nest of douchbaggery.
I for one would like Ron Paul in the Senate. let's face it: Texas ain't choosing a Democrat. As long as they're putting a Republican in that seat, let find some krayzee bastard living under a bridge. Clean him up, put a suit and tie on, and send to Washington. Ron Paul is basically the same thing.
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