Saul's getting a smack down

amusing (0.00 / 0)

It is worth noting that a lot of ron paul's supporters come from Digg.  So not very politically aware, but they are a very "active" readership.

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by: nirmal @ Fri May 18, 2007 at 15:11:25 PM CDT

digg (0.00 / 0)

That's also why Ron Paul does so well in every single online poll.

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by: nirmal @ Fri May 18, 2007 at 15:11:44 PM CDT

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Where's Saul? (0.00 / 0)

Interesting that there is a thread directly about Saul and he hasn't jumped in to comment. 

Saul, Saul, come out where ever you are.

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by: bfealk @ Fri May 18, 2007 at 15:29:11 PM CDT

Hell (0.00 / 0)

it's the third diary about him and no comment...

Sounds like the big mouth bit off more than he could chew...anyone who has been reading MichLib should know that's a feature, not a bug.

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by: Nazgul35 @ Fri May 18, 2007 at 21:52:37 PM CDT

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It's a shame... (0.00 / 0)

Saul has pretty much killed his chances at staying head of the MRP in 2008.  Liberals and Democrats throughout the State will miss him.

Still, a Ron Paul nomination would be fun.  If the REPUBLICAN candidate is saying we should leave Iraq, that doesn't leave them mufh else to run on.

Plus it would virtually guarantee that our troops are coming home soon.

Putting conservatives in charge of our government makes about as much sense as GM hiring a CEO who hates cars.

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by: djtyg @ Fri May 18, 2007 at 22:43:05 PM CDT

Saul concedes (0.00 / 0)

Where's your political courage Saul? From his "blog" :

After consulting with my fellow RNC members, I believe there isn't anything to be gained by advancing a petition aimed solely at removing Congressman Paul from the debates.  The primary is and will continue to work itself out.

I wonder what was the staw that broke Saul's back... Was it his blackberry becoming unusable? Was it the flood of phonecalls and emails to MIGOP headquarters that caused them to take down their contact page(we are on day 2 it being down)? Was it the 400 blog posts? I guess this is why Saul doesn't allow comments on his so-called "blog."

My guess is that the Ron Paul controversy won't go away that easy for Saul despite his backing down. So I am guessing we won't see comment #64 for a little while.

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by: Gus @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 10:06:39 AM CDT

Translation... (0.00 / 0)

"I put my foot in my mouth yet again while demonstrating my severe lack of any sense of knowledge or skill...please stand by while I try to pretend that I somehow managed to make a managerial decision after I really fucked it up."

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by: Nazgul35 @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 16:28:52 PM CDT

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Glad you missed me! (4.00 / 1)

I've been in South Carolina for the week and didn't have a chance to keep you informed...but you can always visit my blog and find out the latest.

My libertarian/republican friends got a bit stirred up over my comments about Congressman Ron Paul.

You've seen some of the discussion above and if you would like to see what this is all about from my perspective...since that is what the complaint is all about...take a look at what I'm saying at:

http://migop.blogs.c...

P.S. My blackberry was never down...our phones were not down and we just temporarily turned off the comment page to avoid much of the spamming. We handled all the volume and responded to everyone from Michigan.  Thanks for caring.

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by: sanuzis @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 19:56:29 PM CDT

SAUL!!! (0.00 / 0)

Great to have our friend back!!!

Now that you're back, are you going to encourage Mike Bishop to do what John Engler did often in his tenure - raise taxes?

Y'know, like the sales tax, the cigarette tax, and the gas tax? Surely if higher taxes hurt businesses, then Engler, now president of a manufacturing group, would've opposed all of these tax hikes.

Great Lakes, Great Times, Great Scott

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by: ScottyUrb @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 20:53:08 PM CDT

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Engler's too busy negotiating more (4.00 / 1)

secret trade deals with the Republicans and Democrats in DC.  Engler isn't done screwing Michigan over yet.  If this keeps up, I might just have to vote for Ron Paul. I'm gonna have to read up on him and find out if he's a regligious zealot like all the rest of the Republicans.

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by: dkmich @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 22:56:47 PM CDT

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i won't vote for ron paul (4.00 / 1)

but i understand your frustration, particularly in terms of the trade deal.

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by: nirmal @ Sun May 20, 2007 at 00:20:59 AM CDT

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This is why your party is unqualified to handle foreign policy (0.00 / 0)

To understand is not to condone; to explain is not to excuse.

The only mistake Ron Paul made was to suggest that our decade-long bombing campaign of Iraq was the primary reason why Arabs hated us.  Above that on the list given to us by al-Qaida was our long-standing presence in Saudi Arabia (considered by Arabs to be an occupation of their most holy soil; and hey! ... anyone wondered why we've closed our bases there?) and our undying support for Israel in the Palestinian question.

No one hates us for our "freedom."  Of course they hate us for what we do.  Hell, I got into a drunken argument with an otherwise mild-mannered middle-aged Filipino man who enlisted in the Navy because he wanted American citizenship over what we did in his home country (didn't stop this guy, who'd spent time as an elections observer in Cambodia -- so much a hater of freedom was he that he worked to ensure that elections were fair and safe from violence -- from applying for citizenship and attending graduate school for international relations at Johns Hopkins).  If you really think they hate us for our freedoms and not because of things we do, you're as dumb as the stump in my front yard.

Among the Trees

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by: Eric B. @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 21:49:11 PM CDT

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We're not laughing with you Sauli... (4.00 / 1)

we're laughing at you.

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by: Nazgul35 @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 22:59:13 PM CDT

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Well... (4.00 / 1)

Now that Saul is back lets hope his severe moment of idiocy (as opposed to his regular idiocy) isn't going to keep him from running the MRP into the ground.

Putting conservatives in charge of our government makes about as much sense as GM hiring a CEO who hates cars.

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by: djtyg @ Sat May 19, 2007 at 21:09:56 PM CDT