Ron Paul's rally: The other political convention in town

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http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/08/31/3225/ron_pauls_rally_the_other_political_convention_in_town

When followers of erstwhile presidential candidate Ron Paul said they were going to stage an alternate convention, they meant it. Pretty much everything about Paul's grassroots Rally for the Republic stands in stark contrast to the Republican national convention getting underway in St. Paul.

Its delegates are on their way via "Ronvoy," a caravan of minivans and charter buses organized on the Internet. Many are eschewing hotels in favor of campgrounds and RV parks in Twin Cities exurbs, according to organizers. Still others will arrive just in time for the rally, a 12-hour marathon of speakers and entertainers taking place Tuesday at the Target Center in downtown Minneapolis.

"Most of our people are not wealthy," said Drew Ivers, a longtime GOP activist who is Paul's delegate coordinator. "They're working people feeling the pinch. They're not country-club elitists. With the price of gas, they're caravanning in in minivans and the like.

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Speakers expected at the rally include former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, MSNBC correspondent Tucker Carlson, anti-tax lobbyist Grover Norquist, Barry Goldwater Jr., son of the late presidential candidate, and Barb White, a candidate in Minnesota's fifth congressional district.

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Where oh Where has the Media Gone?
Oh Where Oh Where Can They Be? . . . . . .

[annabanana]

1. KICKING GODDAMN IT THIS is a story we CAN push upstairs

to the big media if the nets insist on it...

This is a big fat splinter the repugs movement!!!

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2. Well at least something will be interesting to watch at the RNC next week

Didn't Tucker get canned from MSNBC? Right after he announced that he was supporting Ron Paul?

Wouldn't surprise me.

[annabanana]

3. I thought I'd seen him a couple of times as a "political analyst"

His Daddy is too important for him to be kicked all the way to the curb.

[annabanana]

4. I am going to kick Ron Paul stuff until it breaks wide. . . Let's see

exactly what the acceptable level for slant will be for the "mainstream" media for the rest of this election cycle...

Everyone remember how they were hunting all over Denver, under chairs and behind doors for that elusive "bitter Hillary supporter who might jump to McCain". .

Well the Paul supporters are almost entirely dissaffected Repugs who have been shut out, slandered, ignored and dirty tricked from day one. I'd say they're pretty angry, and I'd say there are a BUNCH of them. . especially in the "new" swing states out West!!